From last night whenever Tom T or Jesse Ramien wanted to turn it on they broke through our defence and we just didn't aim up in defence. Hope performances across the next few weeks improve as we still have some good players in this team. I wonder what a proper dummy half would have done out there for us last night.
From the Harold Matthews today there's just one name that sticks out from memory...Tui Afualo. He's just an absolute beast in attack and defence, there was man instances where he was carrying players, breaking tackles making 20-30 metre runs. And in defence there was one sickening hit where he slaughtered a Steeler's forward and unfortunately the young man had to be taken off the field with what appeared to be a shoulder problem. Outside of Tui though I was very impressed with Josh Curran in the middle, he's a big boy in our team but looking at both teams he wasn't the biggest out there but his performance is huge. As I was sitting in front of the Parra bench I got to hear some good things, it was about 2 minutes after Josh came off they were looking for another interchange and they called out "Josh" so he looked up and put his headgear on and was raring to go again but it was another Josh they were calling. He wants to be in amongst the play and has a big impact.
Shame about the SG Ball team but we just gave away too much ball and the Steelers were carrying us up the middle, it didn't help that the ref was making our defensive line go back further than theirs but that shouldn't be an excuse. In this game I was hugely impressed with Joey Tramontana, he is just another class above in both attack and defence. Whenever the Steelers looked to break our line Joey was there to bring the player down, in attack he was constantly in at dummy half giving some nice service to our forwards and halves. Isn't good blaming the refereeing but there was some very dodgy calls including a Doolan attempt at goal which made the goal post disappear from where I was sitting yet the touchies waved it away; everyone including the injured/not playing 18's thought it sailed over and that would have eventually locked the score up at 32-32.
