One of the ugliest games I’ve seen in a long time but I’ll take that win any day, holding the Sharks to just one (somewhat dubious) try is the most pleasing part.
Edrick Lee was excellent tonight. Smashed that grub Dugan (probably my least favourite player in the NRL) all night and then reads that pass beautifully and gets the match winning try.
Also massive credit has to go to our whole forward pack, we looked good coming out of our half and we defended really solidly and everyone did the job asked of them, I just hope DSaf’s injury isn’t too bad, it’s the first time we’ve managed to get him fit so I’ll be really annoyed if he misses a lot of games now. Klemmer and Gavet are wrecking balls and Glasby is an unsung hero, apart from scoring a nice try he found his front on just about every run and got a bunch of quick play the balls and earned at least one penalty. Levi’s passing was crisp and he chose the right times to run but I wasn’t happy with how often he went short to a forward close to the line when he should have gone out he back to our playmakers. Good game from him overall though.
Our centres were quiet but they got no early ball whatsoever so I don’t blame them. Overall our attack was terrible and I thought we were way too flat especially when attacking their line. Pearce, Ponga and Watson failed to fire but that combination will take some time. At least Watson was sniffing around the ruck looking for offloads which I thought would be one of his strengths, got a nice one from Klemmer in our first set and ran onto that one from SKD late in the game which bought us about 20m and more momentum. Definitely a lot that those 3 can work on though.
Overall not a pretty game but we stuck with them in the arm wrestle and played tough so I’m happy with that element of it.
