Fair enough. One thing the Raiders loss showed me was that defensively we are pretty sound this year. We had bugger all possession for the match and when we did have it we handed it straight back to them. They scored 3 tries and 1 of them was from an arsey ricochet off a kick. So I'd list our performances as better than the Red V so far. If we fall to the Knights or get out of jail in golden point this week then I'm prepared to reassess...
2 Raiders tries from kicks and one was after absorbing non stop pressure for 25 mins straight against the Raiders. Other then that they never looked like scoring. Our defence is absolutely awesome this year and that's what for me signals a good team, if you can defend and turn teams away like we are doing you will always reap the rewards. Yesterday was a prime example, 2 or 3 tries we scored were from absorbing pressure and turning the Tigers away, and within the next set we went up the field and scored. Some of our scrambling defence and some of the try savers we made yesterday and over the past few weeks has been a joy to watch. I can count at least 3 or 4 from yesterday, that saved certain tries. That shows you where we are at this year, and it is in a very good place.
Our attack is also brilliant and we are building it off the back of our defence, if we keep turning up in D like we are, our attack is only going to get better and it will be very hard for us not to be playing finals football.
I think our defence is the second or third best in the comp and our FA is only 7 behind the top, that indicates we are as good as anyone in the comp in both attack and defence. We are missing some key players right now and once the 4 or 5 of them are back, we are going to be in a real good place.
