Game day vs The Stroms in the finals race

[DJDL]

Same tema next year basically

It better pharquing not be.

 

[Eion]

Whatevs. Had nothing go our way against the minor premiers at home.

 

[Craigshark]

Melbourne bashed us. Did a power game on us. We hung in there and then when we went 10 behind totally went away from the game plan and cost ourselves any chance.

Sutton and jack williams can f**k off

 

[Chimp]

Righty….. breathe…..

The Storm are good, and just like the Panthers and Bulldogs, they are experts at making the ptb messy and slow, and at this time of year, refs are just not going to keep pinging them for it - so they have a massive advantage.

For large parts of the game, we went toe to toe with them. But when a team are as good as the Storm, with their wrestling advantage, you’ve simply got to limit their opportunities and take your own.

We gifted then way too many opportunities (our issue all year), the ref had a typical finals ‘let it flow’ mentality which means they get away with murder in the ruck, they also kept getting some very favourable calls and then we fail to ice enough of our moments.

At our best, we can beat them, and there were signs of that throughout the match, even though we weren’t at our best.

But we have the same issues that we’ve had the last few years, some players are just plain dumb, some are so mentally fragile that they’re always a bees cock away from crumbling under pressure and we seem to have just dumped a plan that was working wonders early in the year - that Panthers defeat seems to have sucked all confidence out of the joint, and rather than just taking it on the chin and moving on, we’ve thrown the baby out with the bath water and turned to shit. We had a very definite playing style in the first half of the year, now we appear to just be going through the motions - that’s on the coach.

 

[roboshark]

What happened to the " they have waited all year to make up for what happened against the Roosters last year"

 

[Frenzy.]

Melbourne bashed us. Did a power game on us. We hung in there and then when we went 10 behind totally went away from the game plan and cost ourselves any chance.

Sutton and jack williams can f**k off

It didn't take that long Craig. The game plan was out the window after our first attacking set

 

[Avenger]

Your team and your coach remind me of us before we made the GF in 2022. Massive under achievers. I think Fitzy will be under similar pressure as Arthur was prior to fluking our 2022 GF appearance.

I wanted you guys to win but the Storm are just relentless androids.

 

[roboshark]

Your team and your coach remind me of us before we made the GF in 2022. Massive under achievers. I think Fitzy will be under similar pressure as Arthur was prior to fluking our 2022 GF appearance.

I wanted you guys to win but the Storm are just relentless androids.

I don't think he will be under pressure. But he f**king should be

 

[Quigs]

Coudn't be bothered reading the match day fred.

They were too good and we played alright for a team that is in the maybe bracket of teams 3 to 8th on the ladder.

It's not going to be a team for the Bradbury's this year.

 

[Chimp]

To sum it up;

1 - We’re not good enough to defend errors and give up field position against the top teams….. We made too many errors and gifted field position to them

2 - We’re not good enough to overcome shit refereeing against the top teams…. We got no help at all from the officials, quite the opposite

3 - We need all of our best players to play well against the top teams to have a chance…… I don’t even need to say….

 

[Craigshark]

It didn't take that long Craig. The game plan was out the window after our first attacking set

yeah you’re right. But we got bashed through the middle. They are just a fast physical side and we failed to slow down the ruck like they did which had us on the back foot for the entire game

 

[roboshark]

They were too good but I wish the NRL would pick up some of their bullshit they get away with. No-one ever says a word

 

[SadShark]

Ca

I'm on the horns of a dliemma after that.

My dilemma is deciding if

a) We have a dumb team that went away from a winning formula

or

b) We have a dumb coach who changed a winning formula

Can I please select both a) & b) sir?

 

[Poss]

Those games are rare. Melbourne made 2 errors all game and had proper, legitimate momentum for probably 70 mins of the game.

We only made 4 errors (26 from 30) - which is not too bad considering one was off the kick off.

we had (from memory) only 2 opportunities in their 20m and scored both times. I can’t remember an opportunity in the whole second half in good attacking field position. We earned one chance when the storm lost the ball in the play the ball, but enter the bunker. Horrible call.

we weren’t as bad as the scoreboard suggests. They were just ruthless and almost perfect. We had no chances, and the scoreboard blew out after all the momentum, field position, repeat sets, and tackling we had to do.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Coudn't be bothered reading the match day fred.

They were too good and we played alright for a team that is in the maybe bracket of teams 3 to 8th on the ladder.

It's not going to be a team for the Bradbury's this year.

Exactly.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Those games are rare. Melbourne made 2 errors all game and had proper, legitimate momentum for probably 70 mins of the game.

We only made 4 errors (26 from 30) - which is not too bad considering one was off the kick off.

we had (from memory) only 2 opportunities in their 20m and scored both times. I can’t remember an opportunity in the whole second half in good attacking field position. We earned one chance when the storm lost the ball in the play the ball, but enter the bunker. Horrible call.

we weren’t as bad as the scoreboard suggests. They were just ruthless and almost perfect. We had no chances, and the scoreboard blew out after all the momentum, field position, repeat sets, and tackling we had to do.

Good post, Poss. Summed up perfectly

 

[Matt reeked]

Those games are rare. Melbourne made 2 errors all game and had proper, legitimate momentum for probably 70 mins of the game.

We only made 4 errors (26 from 30) - which is not too bad considering one was off the kick off.

we had (from memory) only 2 opportunities in their 20m and scored both times. I can’t remember an opportunity in the whole second half in good attacking field position. We earned one chance when the storm lost the ball in the play the ball, but enter the bunker. Horrible call.

we weren’t as bad as the scoreboard suggests. They were just ruthless and almost perfect. We had no chances, and the scoreboard blew out after all the momentum, field position, repeat sets, and tackling we had to do.

Good post ,

we got spanked through the middle . Hazleton doesn’t belong.

Don’t have the cattle to fix it this year but will be improvement next year .

 

[Stake Removed]

How bad is Ronaldo seriously. Nicho horrendous as well.

When Ronaldo has a bad game he does it well

 

[roboshark]

Their PTB speed is huge. Stepping over it everytime helps. Ours is like slow motion

 

[Stake Removed]

Your team and your coach remind me of us before we made the GF in 2022. Massive under achievers. I think Fitzy will be under similar pressure as Arthur was prior to fluking our 2022 GF appearance.

I wanted you guys to win but the Storm are just relentless androids.

I think your right, and we will soon realise we can't win and that's when you drop from the 8.
Fitz is too loyal to some of these players