3 Mannering
2 Packer
1 Hurrell (though his defense was shown up a bit this week, but no worse than if JBro had been there instead)
Last point was a toss-up between Johnson and Hurrell for me, but Hurrell just gets there. Johnson wanted a hattrick so bad, though
Thought we missed Friend's service around the ruck a bit.
Thought Mateo had a good game, actually. Didn't overplay his hand, able to make good metres even once tackled because tacklers are more concerned with stopping the offload than bringing him to ground.
Had a quick looks at the stats on nrl.com, and i reckon they've dudded Matulino out of a few tackles (and Packer out of a few metres). Seems Big Ben only ever makes 17 or 19 tackles a game :crazy:.
Masoe is a thug. And not even a smart thug, like JWH. Just a plain dumb thug. Ta'ai shouldn't have got up swinging, but it looked to me like Masoe was trying to eye-gouge him.
Watching the game again this morning, i thought the commentating was pretty bad. I liked Husband last year doing the U20s, and i still like him doing the U20s this year, but his FG commentary just seems all over the place. And Halligan gets worse every week. Loved his wondering why Hurrell threw an offload after his early break when he should've 'just gone for a quick play.' It was last tackle, Daryl. If anything he should've put a kick through.
Anyway, tough battle. Perhaps lucky to get the two points, though without that late try it would've looked convincing, but i reckon a win like that will help the team much more than if we'd thumped them by 20.