Gutted.
The Broncos nearly got away with that game...but when you're taking on the collective talents of Benji Marshall and Robbie Farah you can never taking time for granted. It says something about them as players when they can come up with the kind of gamebreaking plays they did and every WT supporter should be happy with their abilities.
On the other end, the end I'm much more familiar with and it sucks. The boys really did try and I couldn't be anymore proud of the likes of Hoffman, Winterstein, Beale and Parker but at the end of the day we just made too many mistakes in attack with the ball and off the ball to get the job done.
I want to bring up Peter Wallace who I reckon must be filthy with himself right about now. I'm not at all mad at him because I know he tried...and maybe there in lies the problem with him. He just tries too hard to stick to a play even when it doesn't suit the team. He's got tremendous natural instincts that allow him to evade defenders effectively but when he does that, instead of reacting to it and going with the best option, what he tends to do is stick with the original play...which for instance was the inside ball to Hoffman, even when it wasn't usually on.
Norman was also very nervous tonight. Like most young halves he still needs to work on his defence and he needed to do more to direct the side around the park. It's hard to be too cross with him though, I mean really it was up to Wallace to carry the burden of leading the side around the park, but Norman had to talk to his outside backs more and needed to position them better in conjunction with himself. Hopefully he takes a page or two out of this game.
This result may suck, but I remember a similar performance in 2006 against the Dragons where they pulled it out of the fire in the final 2 and we went onto win a premiership that season. Hopefully this result spurs the boys on and we come out firing against the Titans with *knock on wood* our full contigent.
