eels_fan said:
We lost because of three reasons:
1. Dykes was gone...we had 4 forwards on the bench and a forward in the halves...left us with only Morris as a kicking option..he's good but wont win u a game.
2. Lockyer was brilliant...his bombs would have troubled any fullback so no-one should say anything bout McKinnon dropping em.
3. Jason Robinson couldnt keep 10m if his life depended on it. They were offside all night...but im sure the message from NRL HQ was "dont penalise Brisbane forwards for not being back the 10 cos they will be tired from origin and we shouldnt disadvantage them" never mind that Hindmarsh was back every time and outplayed every forward out there!! And they scored off a blatant forward pass.
Anyways, we can take a lot from the loss, it wasn't embarrassing and we didnt play bad, we just came up against a better team.
We'll go well next week when Witts back, but it seems we're doomed never to have Witt and Dykes playing together for more than one round...
Go The Eels
Took the words tight out of my mouth.
Like him or loathe him, Dykes gives us structure and variety in attack
We went badly missing in attack in the second half because we lacked a halfback - at least Brisbane had the world's best 5/8.
Lockyer was OK; the bombs Wade dropped mostly had reasons ( (1) in the first half, he jumps and gets the shoulder of the tackler in mid-air; this knocks him around and he drops them; (2) second half, Burt and Wade both go for it and slam into one another).
The ref had a shocker - awful 10 metres, VERY bad call on the forward pass try and should have sent a Bronco off. Plus the 'tackle' which resulted in Dykes' injury was a bit late and unnecessary - easily could have been penalised.
The touchies sucked too.
Still, awesome effort.
