Jason Maher
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I need some skeepisms right now...
McCrone made a really nice play by kicking into the in goal. Sometimes in GP it is wise not to take the shot and use defensive pressure to win you the game.
But no one saw a 40/20 coming, certainly not of that quality.
McCrone and Sezer should hold their heads high. Quality game management from both, but someone has to lose.
It's about time the Raiders were on the right side of one of these games. While they had a lot go their way this evening, there's been times in the past where they've been the better side and had nothing to show for it.
Love Josh Papalii, but he was lucky to stay on the field tonight. It will be interesting to see what he will be charged with. At first glance it looked like a Grade 3, but the way the officials treated it, I'd be surprised if it was more than a Grade 2.
Why did the Dragons go away from what was working for them in the first half? They had a lot of success attacking the Raiders right-hand side. It seemed like they weren't interested in targeting the edges and kept trying to play short to Thompson whenever they went that way. While it's not a poor option, I'm not sure why they didn't play off the back of it and lull the Raiders defence into mistakes. The Dragons don't have a lot of strike, if they're not making in-roads through the middle, then usually it's the left-hand side that provides them with inspiration.
A couple of half breaks in the middle had them interested and why not run Thompson at Austin and make him tackle more? The Dragons problems stem much further than that and tonight was a display of "dragons footy" mixed with exhaustion. Add the injuries and the shuffling that had to be made with a very poor coach and a playmaker that can't control his team and a team that can't handle pressure and you see what you saw tonight.
The sad thing is the Dragons showed their potential early in the season and just continue to sabotage their fans and their employers.
The Raiders were't much better and just managed to handle it slightly better.
I take it you missed the warriors a little earlier?
We did it in 2015 (well, might as well have missed the 8) and likely this year. Mostly, our wonderful consistency since 2011 has meant we've started shit, were shit during the middle stages, and ended the season, drumroll....shit.lol fair point
but at least the warriors dont come from the top 4 to fall out of the 8 every year.
This bloke??Well aside from the result, it was a good night at gio. Good crowd, no line up for booze, not as cold as buggery.
Saw a bloke who I assume was skeepe, frothing at the mouth, giving the refs a spray at the half.
Saw the same bloke at full-time lying in the trough in the mens toilets of the meninga stand asking blokes to piss on him. Many obliged.
So you call a grubber into the in goal on tackle 4 in golden point 10 metres out from the opposition try line quality game management?
We don't operate like normal people.I still can't understand why the Raiders didn't go for the field goal straight off the tap from the 40/20?
Worked out for them in the end, but I thought that was an opportunity missed.
Have you seen us try to kick field goals the last few years?I still can't understand why the Raiders didn't go for the field goal straight off the tap from the 40/20?
Worked out for them in the end, but I thought that was an opportunity missed.
We don't operate like normal people.
Besides between them Austin and Sezer are about 0 from 1987 for field goals
Yeah, I sort of get why they didn't, but it would have been the least amount of pressure they have kicked from all year.Have you seen us try to kick field goals the last few years?