My take on yesterday's game:
- I thought we went with them for about the first 20-25 minutes and our goal line defence wasn't too bad during that period, then the floodgates opened as our defence started getting fatigued and we were missing tackles, this also coincided with the Cowboys finding their way into the game
- We need to work out how to control the ruck, we're getting steamrolled up the middle, the Cowboys were making ridiculous metres of every set and were pinning us down near our goal line most of the game, this is also why our edge defence is so poor because everyone is pushing in to try and cover up our middle which is leaking metres. This is also causing fatigue and meaning we miss even more tackles, we have to get this sorted if we want to compete.
- Nathan Ross has been our best player over the last few weeks and maybe even our best this season so far. He is looking like a pretty solid first grader at the moment, shame he's now another victim of our decade long injury curse
- We actually did well to score 3 tries against the reigning premiers IMO, there will be lots of teams this year who won't score that many on them. The last 2 games we've played have showed that we can play good attacking football, the try that Mamo scored looked like it came straight off the training paddock and was a really clean backline move. If we continue to see this sort of stuff I'll be hopeful that there's a good team in there somewhere.
- On Mamo, even though he's got plenty of errors in his game I feel that he can be a good first grader one day, he just needs time and extended exposure at this level.
- Unfortunately I can't say the same for Lachlan Fitzgibbon, he hasn't shown me anything at all to suggest he's a first grader.
