The only call that I'd rate as horrible against us was on the last tackle in the first half where the ball was going backwards at a rate of knots after they jammed up on Maloney, McKinnon gets it in front of the Penrith 40m line, faces his own goal posts to avoid a tackler and passes it to a player 4 metres behind the line, which is called forward. It was a WTF moment for sure.
Penrith were just too good. Any team that completes their sets as well as they did, and gets such momentum through the ruck as they did, and kicks as accurately as they do are going to be hard to stop. I thought Civinoceva was awesome for them. The Warriors were all over the show, our right winger couldn't catch a cold and missed a soft tackle early on to allow them to get to 16-0, but aside from that, our back three were seemingly charged with the responsibility of hitting it up... most imporantly, questions need to be asked of those forwards. There seemed to be no organisation from Maloney either, at one stage Brent Tate was passed the ball to the right (he was only player on that side of the ruck at that point), and the closest Warrior to him was a good 20m to his left. Tate gave it to Maloney big time, demanding him to organise the pack to go forward, but it just never happened until they tried going around them instead early in the second half.
I suppose that sort of stuff happens with the injury list we have got, your best defender, your best go forward man, the big metre eater and our most potent weapon, and probably our best fringe forward, along with our organising half. That said, I can't fault Penrith, they'll go a long way this season.
