Two games all, but we got the big one.
I can't make up my mind if having Kimmorley be less involved was a stroke of genius, or a stroke of madness. The other guys certainly lifted, but you lost the game. On the other hand, everyone should gel better next week, and Kimmorley and the other senior guys might be able to rely on some of the younger guys pulling their weight more.
Anyway, I was happy with lots of things about the Knights game;
1/ Our young forwards have stood up to another pack with big credentials. The young guys all look like clones of Josh Perry.
2/ Matt Gidley is back to his best.
3/ Mark Hughes has come back from injury far better than i thought he would. I had heard he had lost a lot of pace, but he looks to have stepped right back into the team like he was never out of it.
4/ Craig Hall is a godsend for us. We have put up with so many crappy wingers in the last few seasons I hate to think about them.
5/ Matty Parsons scored. Thank God that monkey is off everyones back. The boys probably lost the minor premiership last season because they tried so hard to put the big guy over the line for about the last 10 games.
I think Cronulla will win a lot more games than they lose this season now, they still have heaps of good players.
One thing I can't understand is how Beattie gets away with it. I have no problem with him putting in the niggle, but it is like the officials can't see him. He must have that invisabillity cloak of Harry Potter's I think. Buderus was spewing with the ref when Beattie was headbutting him in the scrums and the ref was looking right at it and couldn't see a thing wrong, and that little forearm he put right on Woolnough's nut was so blatant that just about anyone else would be booking a holiday on the Gold Coast, but you just know that Beattie will get off scot free. Josh Perry just has to look sideways and he is penalised, but Beattie can do as he pleases it seems.
I didn't get to the junior games, but i wish i had, it sounds like the Flegg game was a nail biter.
