Outside Inglis,who was playing busted, Souths lack class in their backline. Their six and seven could not organize a chook raffle.So tonight once Manly slowed down the early onslaught,their six and seven took control and it was game set and match.Souths will have to have a re think about their backline in 2014
why the f**k does Madge continually f**k around with the composition and the rotation of the pack and bench? it is never settled for any more than two consecutive weeks. sure, there may be competition for places in the 17 and the odd injury and suspension, but several positional and starting/interchange changes were mind boggling tbh.
Sam Burgess on the left edge instead of McQueen? Since when has Sammy ever played on the edge for Souths recently? Great game to experiment against probably the best opposing right-side attack in the league.
Lima starting? Asotasi off the bench? Tyrell? Clarke? G Burgess? L Burgess? S Burgess? 7 players who all predominantly play in the middle. Shifted Sam out, and the balance was gone.
and hopefully, we won't ever here from nuffies in the lead-up to origin next season calling for an A Reynolds berth in a sky blue jumper. As a souths supporter, i was always against it. Both sutton and reynolds proved tonight that they cannot organise and direct this team around the park. they were no better than NSW really anyway as there is no organisation and intent in both sets of attacks, just one-out hope for the best shit. contrast this with how dangerous DCE and Foran are at creating problems for defences, and there's a big pointer to where these games can be won or lost.
