08 :: R10 Sat :: Dragons 36 Storm 12 @ ANZ

[Timmah]

:lol:, the party must have been a beauty if you are lurking on a Footy forum :lol:

:lol: I've accessed the forum remotely but only at the footy, not at a party :lol: That is a little sad...

 

[Beavers Headgear]

It would have been embarressing had the Dragons lost that one. I have one question to ask though. Was there anything in the Chambers tackle on Soward?? On ABC radio they said Soward was slipping into it, but Chambers was leading with an elbow.

imo, Penalty and report would have been the correct result

Soward did slip into it, but it would probably have to slip into the Careless category and he will probably face some time on the sidelines, as Hilder did last week

 

[eels_fan_01]

:lol: I've accessed the forum remotely but only at the footy, not at a party :lol: That is a little sad...

How do you get on the forum when your at the footy?

 

[dragonfire]

Its not exactly unreasonable to point out that the week before origin could have been a reduced round instead of a full round. Common sense might have prevailed I would've thought. I think its great seeing the storm players rewarded as they deserve it, but the draw could've had reduced rounds before origin so teams wouldn't basically forfeit competition points with greatly weakened teams.

i got some cement buddy so you can harden up. what are the storm suppose to be given 3 byes this year because they have no depth at their club. I didnt see the Dragons or other teams who got crippled by injuries ever get any byes because they had players out and missing

 

[Timmah]

How do you get on the forum when your at the footy?

Little thing called a mobile phone.

It's amazing what technology can do these days :sarcasm:

 

[Willow]

Storm v Dragons at Olympic Park later in the season will set the record straight.

Now that's what I call living in the here and now.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

 

[Noa]

Good effort by some of the young fella's. Kevin Proctor looked as big and strong as anyone out there, Sika Manu played well for his first game back from a ankle fracture and Liam Foran looked much better at d/h then Geyer did.

The limits in Cooper Cronks game were glaring without any stars to back him up, Steve Turner really let the team down and letting the Dragons get so many "unloads" away with 3-4 Storm players was the killer as far as I'm concerned.

Well done to the Dragons, I guess 2 points is points.

 

[kia ora storm]

In Cronk's defence he had a lot on his shoulders and did well in a very inexperienced team.

The likes of Proctor, Anderson and Neilson will be better for the run and the next game without the SOO guys will be a lot closer.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

In Cronk's defence he had a lot on his shoulders and did well in a very inexperienced team.

The likes of Proctor, Anderson and Neilson will be better for the run and the next game without the SOO guys will be a lot closer.

His limitations in attack were made pretty clear. When the kicking to the corners wasn't on without the likes of Folau in the side, he really struggled to come up with any viable options, he missed Smith's leadership out there, no question about it.

That being said the Dragons cover defence was impeccable for most of the game. Any movements were shut down quickly, partly due to inexperience from the storm backline, but mostly on the back of strong and quick defence.

I don't know why everyone keeps on going on about how the Dragons beat a side so much more inexperienced though. They were missing their 3 major backline players, and had the youngest backline out of the two sides. The game however was won in the forwards and on the back of Soward's boot. Even against a Storm side at full strength, it would have been a close affair. The Dragons defence was great, go-forward and offloads aplenty, and all the backline players did their job. They played smart footy. Storm were just too compressed in attack, mainly due to the defensive workload they had.

 

[Ice777]

I don't know why everyone keeps on going on about how the Dragons beat a side so much more inexperienced though. They were missing their 3 major backline players, and had the youngest backline out of the two sides.

I'm not for a second taking anything away from the Dragons as they were far too good and played a very good game of football, especially Soward who had a ripper. But i think you'll find why people are saying that the Dragons beat a much more inexperienced side is because simply they did.

The Storm had 3 debutantes in the side and overall 8 players who'd played 10 first grade games or less (3 of those under 5 games) not to mention also having Sammy T (17 games) and Chambers (15 games) So that's 10 players all up with under 17 first grade games or less under their belts.

With those sorts of numbers you couldn't possibly have a problem understanding why people are saying the Storm were a much more inexperienced side could you? But again, we still fielded the same amount of players as them who were too good for us on the night and the better team won.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I'm not for a second taking anything away from the Dragons as they were far too good and played a very good game of football, especially Soward who had a ripper. But i think you'll find why people are saying that the Dragons beat a much more inexperienced side is because simply they did.

The Storm had 3 debutantes in the side and overall 8 players who'd played 10 first grade games or less (3 of those under 5 games) not to mention also having Sammy T (17 games) and Chambers (15 games) So that's 10 players all up with under 17 first grade games or less under their belts.

With those sorts of numbers you couldn't possibly have a problem understanding why people are saying the Storm were a much more inexperienced side could you? But again, we still fielded the same amount of players as them who were too good for us on the night and the better team won.

There is no denying that the Storm fielded the more inexperienced side. I just think it's a bit unfair on the dragons side, who I think played a damn good game against a side who put up a pretty big fight when they too were missing some very major parts of their side.

The forwards was still a mismatch, but the Storm still had plenty of quality across the paddock. It still had more rep players leading around the side. The backlines in terms of age, Storm had the edge. etc etc.

All things considered, it should have been a much closer affair, but the Dragons did well to dominate for almost the entire 80 minutes.