Yooooooooooooooooooooooooo f**king hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
What a night that was last night, and what a friggin win!!! I've woken up this morning with the biggest smile of my face and I admittedly couldn't sleep last night because I was buzzing so much from the win.
Coming into the game, we all felt a little optimistic and we all felt there was a chance we could do it, but I don't think anybody, even the staunchest of Souths fans, expected that sort of game. An amazing performance. Just amazing. I haven't seen that sort of commitment, desire, hunger, passion, enjoyment, want, effort, focus and just all-round application in a long, long time. Not even in the last few weeks, last night topped that.
Every single one of the boys out there was on. They have all bought in and everyone played out of their skins. Trell the clear man of the match again and hats off to him. Despite all the criticism, he's turning it on when it matters. Cody, take a bow. Brilliant at halfback yet again in one of the liveliest performances we've seen from him in a while. Jackie was great, Gags was massive. Then, all our forwards were a real highlight. We were all worried about the forward battle given Brisbane have one of the best packs in the comp, but our boys well and truly dominated them. That set the platform for this win.
The funny thing is, our attack looked really good, and we scored some beautiful tries in tricky conditions, but I still don't feel like it really clicked. We still looked clunky at times. But I do have to give the boys a wrap for their ball handling. In those type of conditions, completing at the rate we did was insane.
But the defensive effort was the most impressive thing for me and the biggest highlight from the game. We haven't seen a commited defensive performance like that in quite some time. For once, our linespeed was good, we were aggressive and winning collisions, the boys looked fit and showed a lot of effort to get back, our scramble was insane. We kept them to nil for most of the game. All of this against a very good attacking side full of superstars. It was insane, very pleasing.
What this win shows us is that the last few weeks haven't just been because out opponents were shit, this proves we have genuinely turned a corner I hope. I know the Broncos played shit but we kind of made them play shit. Now, the confidence grows and I'm starting to believe in this team again. And you can see that they're starting to believe in themselves.
God, it's a good feeling. I've missed this so much. Really going to enjoy this one and celebrate it.
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