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Don’t know result yet and not read previous posts so still hoping for a miracle in the second half!
Two of the first three try’s were forward passes and couldn’t be call ball backwards out of the hand only problem is it appears I’m the only person that saw it!
Second bottle of wine seems to have a hole in it! Have to open the next!
Go the Force!
May the FORCE be with you!
Wow! That was a reaming! Will take a few weeks to get rid of the taste of Vaseline! Some fantastic defence but attack was missing until Anstee came on. Our line breaking is virtually no existent and we don’t look as though we are going to break it. We need our centres and a few others taking the ball at an angle. We are predictable!
The straight up time and again isn’t working now rethink!
May the FORCE be with you!
Godwin, Thrush, Kearney, Kahui, Heiburg, Longbottom(?).
Brumbies missing only Sio. AFAIK.
Not an excuse. It just is. Not a great result. But expected TBH.
"The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday - Tom David
I really shouldn't have talked up Berry before the game. Must've been thinking about someone else! Classic one sided refereeing in the first half and then a few the other way once the game was already done. Scrum refereeing was a joke, as were the numerous missed forward passes for their tries.
Certainly didn't do ourselves any favours though. Attack still struggling and always seems to be space outside our defence.
Good time for the bye and hopefully we have a few reinforcements after the break.
Exile
Port Macquarie
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!" - Rocky Balboa
Most likely not. But hard to say when you're reffed off the park for a half.
For example, if any of those first 3 scrums resulted in a force penalty as they should have, we'd be down the other end perhaps putting pressure on their line.
Instead we were stuck on our line for 20 minutes because they were dubiously awarded the penalty.
Like I said, we certainly didn't do ourselves any favours, but the ref did us even fewer.
We were annihilated across the park in the 60 minutes I saw before switching off.
Nic Berry doesn't even come into the discussion.
Ok, I saw that the Brumbies were pushing up on one scrum and he pinged the force for pulling out, that's a 50 50 call with any ref and the Brumbies started playing games on engagement once his mind was made up but in reality, their scrum was smarter than ours.Does anybody agree with me that the tactic of not attacking the ball on the floor and spreading out in the line isn't working?
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Its a simple concept, everyone repeat after me
The better team won on the night.
Exile
Port Macquarie
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!" - Rocky Balboa
The ref didn’t help, the injuries didn’t help, but basically the Brumbies had a gsme plan & the Force didn’t-well not that I could tell. Macgrego played great, Kuridrani actually shifted his arse tho.
Yes they did. And it's usually the case. That doesn't automatically mean that criticism of a referee turns into, "If a different referee had the match we would have won". The standard of refereeing has been OK this year at times and woeful at others. Andrew Merhtens is a pretty knowledgeable pundit and neutral in SR Au Id imagine. He, for one, doesn't agree. He has been scathing of the overall standard so far.
"The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday - Tom David
I was impressed with kridrani last night, maybe he just got pissed off with being mediocre and turned into classic k-train (never used to like that nickname but it seemed appropriate after last night where his best runs started on the 40 for him to receive the ball at the 5)He needs to do that more and that will make him a dummy run threat as well. If he spends the whole night launching himself at the line it might help our attack
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