It's easy to finger Boyd, and he made some poor decisions, but there was plenty wrong with the quality of defence on the prior 3 and 4 plays before he got stranded on the ball shift play.
The yardage up the middle and edge of the ruck against the Broncos is too easy at present, that's their biggest problem, and might well be one until they get Parker, Caroll and Stagg back into their forward line up /defence. That's now 23, 24 and 28 points against in their opening 3 games, and to be honest could / should well have been higher in games 1 and 3 had the opposition been a little more on song. Bennett knows where the problems are but he's deflecing the spotlight with the talk of handling problems, why else rush Lacey and Lomu (who only turned up 7 days ago) into the defensive line up (Webcke, Parker, Carroll, Stagg and McGuire missing from last yrs forward depth). He also doesn't want the media bandwaggon to start all the post Webcke focus and stories. Had the Panthers controlled the ball through the first 20 minutes of the 2nd half they could have put the result beyond doubt.
Panthers errors and poor completions should have cost them the game, as from a difficult position the Broncos did very well to turn the game around and take what should have been a winning lead. One thing about the Broncs, they have a very strong culture, they are very hard to put away.
Aside from his 4 tries Hodges was outstanding, and what a fantastic turnaround his career has seen. Another who looked to losing his way a few yrs ago and had plenty of mug in his game that the great man has turned around, his last 18 mths have been nothing but quality.
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