Iafeta
Referee
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3 Russell Packer
2 Ben Matulino
... Those guys deserve a special mention, the first 20 minutes was reminiscent of Wiki/Price at times. They just kept turning up for hit ups.
1 Kevin Locke - some outstanding takes, one fairly ordinary error but I think his offensive positioning was also good and on a dry track he would have had a couple of breaks backing up Mateo like he was
Discipline was costly. Taylor's penalty near the end being third man in was just dumb. Berrigan giving away two shockers late in the penalty count, one which led directly to a try. He laid in so long in one tackle I thought he was going to start a foreplay session. Refereering was neville novice stuff, missing a blatant knock on off a bomb by their winger into an offside player, missing Nokiachiello knocking on off a bomb as well, the video ref was a bit of a WTF moment that was at least benefit of the doubt (and a massive moment in the game IMO)... but basically I just thought our attack sucked, our passing was very labourious in the wet conditions, and given the platform laid down early by Packer and Matulino it was almost scandalous to come out of that not with any points early, and from what I recall, 0 line breaks for the game.
I think we missed Seymour somewhat, but Johnson wasn't to blame, his D was quite good, and aside from one poor pass he was fairly good. I think like Locke, on a dry track with his step he could have caused a fair few problems. Maloney isn't as good as Seymour at the cross field bomb (generally Seymour puts it on the try line), and the other time I felt Seymour was missed was when SKD went down injured and for some reason Maloney kept calling the play to the right side and didn't even look to exploit the injury, whereas when Steve Rapira went down, they ran straight at him. I also thought we missed Hohaia, just a bit of extra speed at dummy half. We were ponderous out of there all night. Heremaia was ok, Berrigan hopeless. I'd rather Mara in if Hohaia is not available any day of the week.
2 Ben Matulino
... Those guys deserve a special mention, the first 20 minutes was reminiscent of Wiki/Price at times. They just kept turning up for hit ups.
1 Kevin Locke - some outstanding takes, one fairly ordinary error but I think his offensive positioning was also good and on a dry track he would have had a couple of breaks backing up Mateo like he was
Discipline was costly. Taylor's penalty near the end being third man in was just dumb. Berrigan giving away two shockers late in the penalty count, one which led directly to a try. He laid in so long in one tackle I thought he was going to start a foreplay session. Refereering was neville novice stuff, missing a blatant knock on off a bomb by their winger into an offside player, missing Nokiachiello knocking on off a bomb as well, the video ref was a bit of a WTF moment that was at least benefit of the doubt (and a massive moment in the game IMO)... but basically I just thought our attack sucked, our passing was very labourious in the wet conditions, and given the platform laid down early by Packer and Matulino it was almost scandalous to come out of that not with any points early, and from what I recall, 0 line breaks for the game.
I think we missed Seymour somewhat, but Johnson wasn't to blame, his D was quite good, and aside from one poor pass he was fairly good. I think like Locke, on a dry track with his step he could have caused a fair few problems. Maloney isn't as good as Seymour at the cross field bomb (generally Seymour puts it on the try line), and the other time I felt Seymour was missed was when SKD went down injured and for some reason Maloney kept calling the play to the right side and didn't even look to exploit the injury, whereas when Steve Rapira went down, they ran straight at him. I also thought we missed Hohaia, just a bit of extra speed at dummy half. We were ponderous out of there all night. Heremaia was ok, Berrigan hopeless. I'd rather Mara in if Hohaia is not available any day of the week.