The club has to take the positives.
Has to.
Theres been way too many negatives the last few weeks but we rocked up last night and - given absolutely no chance - shouldve led at the 60 minute mark when a disputable forward pass call was a dagger to our heart.
A classic momentum shift.
So to lead at the 60th minute....
Against the FULL STRENGTH leaders. And not just any leader - the storm.
In melbourne.
In the single biggest milestone game in 120 years.
On top of that... to have every nitpick decision....every 50/50 call...all go against us - plus have No Gal. No Wade. No Moylan. Plus lose our replacement fullback.
Plus to complete at 50% in the first half - and THEN....to STILL practically take the lead at the 60th minute.
Incredible.
To say we were poor....BS.
We turned a corner last night.
Still swimming against a tide in may respects but for me the big positive is this....
Every team goes through highs and lows during a season.
Brownie was 2 inches from getting sacked months ago. His team won 7 in a row and went top 4.
Penrith were the same.
Souths were undefeated after about 7 rounds and the NRL had already started inscripting their name on the trophy. They havent been able to win a game since and were lucky to hold on for a 1 point win last night against a team playing without their superstar match winning fullback.
Theres many more examples of these power shifts.
Most if not all take place during the origin or rep period.
Thats when ours started.
And even in our slide whilst we were playing like busteds we were still losing by 1 f**king goal!
The cream rises as the comp gets closer to September.
Now is a good time to get the silly season out of our head. We have plenty of blokes who have been around in August September footy.
About 15 in our starting 17.
No team in the comp beats storm in Melbourne last night.
None.
It wasnt allowed.
And l will also say no other team takes a hit injury wise, completion rate wise, refereeing wise and halftime score wise and gets to where we were at the 60th minute.
No other team.
We've all stuck the dagger in over the last 3 weeks and rightly so - but lm excited.
After last night l saw enough.
