R23 FNF - Melbourne v Parramatta

[Timmah]

STATISTICS Courtesy to NRLStats.com

Individual Bests

Most Tackles
Nathan Hindmarsh 69

Most Runs
Jarryd Hayne 19

Most Line Breaks
Eric Grothe 2

Most Offloads
Feleti Mateo 3


Team

MELBOURNE 14
Cameron Smith, Billy Slater tries; Cameron Smith 3/3 goals
PARRAMATTA 10
Eric Grothe, Krisnan Inu tries; Krisnan Inu 1/2 goals

Crowd 11,549

Halftime Melbourne 14-4

Possession
Melbourne 52% Parramatta 48%

Completions
Melbourne 32/48 (67%)
Parramatta 34/48 (71%)

Tackles
Melbourne 364 Parramatta 420

Offloads
Parramatta 10 Melbourne 1

Errors
Melbourne 17 Parramatta 15

Penalties
Melbourne 8-6

 

[hineyrulz]

Melbourne had 7 penalties by halfime.

 

[LESStar58]

Lol, that's not like you...where's the "whack that up your arse fitzgoose.":lol: :lol:

Hey man, I'm a realist....

 

[Timmah]

Melbourne had 7 penalties by halfime.

Really?

I guess you know better than NRL Stats then :roll:

 

[Noa]

WTF was Bellamy thinking last night not playing Chambers. In hindsight it was an impressive win when you consider that we had a 3 man bench. But WTF Bellamy you gotta be smarter then that. Ridiculous.

Im starting to become disillusioned with Bellamys game plan again, where playing like Brisbane of 2000 again (yawn).

And Cooper Cronk, anyone who thinks this bloke is an elite half-back is kidding themselves, his game consists of average pass or step-back inside, no slight of hand whatsoever, he needs to borrow a bit of Scott Princes or JT show-and-go he's become way to predictable.

Did Inglis play last night cause I didnt see him. He's scored only 6 tries this year but the Coaches will tell you he has 12 (?) try assists. Well last year he had 18 tries (with 2 months out) as well at least 10 try assists. Either build the whole structure around him all move him back out wide.

 

[gurl_child]

I am just wondering if nathan hindmarsh cares that his shorts show a bit of skin. It has been that way for a long time and I wonder why he leaves it that way.

 

[Molly]

WTF was Bellamy thinking last night not playing Chambers. In hindsight it was an impressive win when you consider that we had a 3 man bench. But WTF Bellamy you gotta be smarter then that. Ridiculous.

Im starting to become disillusioned with Bellamys game plan again, where playing like Brisbane of 2000 again (yawn).

And Cooper Cronk, anyone who thinks this bloke is an elite half-back is kidding themselves, his game consists of average pass or step-back inside, no slight of hand whatsoever, he needs to borrow a bit of Scott Princes or JT show-and-go he's become way to predictable.

Did Inglis play last night cause I didnt see him. He's scored only 6 tries this year but the Coaches will tell you he has 12 (?) try assists. Well last year he had 18 tries (with 2 months out) as well at least 10 try assists. Either build the whole structure around him all move him back out wide.

The game was played on a very wet and slippery field, and don't discount the fact it was Melbourne's 3rd outing in 11 days....add to that a 3 man rotation and I think we did pretty well to win with a sub standard performance...the point is we don't give alot of opportunites to other sides, so we are able to close the game down when we are not on top of our A game.

Having said that, we don't seem to be hole running or running angles well at the minute and running directly at the defense, IMO this is why we are not getting results close to the line as we are used to. We are issing the Fus a bit I think.

Parramatta had a schmick backiline in last night and I think we did pretty well in containing them....Quinn played perhas his best game of the season...

You don't need to win by 30 every week....

 

[Tekken Lord]

Originally Posted by Timmah
Really?

I guess you know better than NRL Stats then

Yes i do, Melbourne had 7 penalties to 3 at half time...

 

[Timmah]

Corrected ;-)

 

[Angry_eel]

I am just wondering if nathan hindmarsh cares that his shorts show a bit of skin. It has been that way for a long time and I wonder why he leaves it that way.

he had better things to worry about last night then someone seeing a bit of his arse tbh.

 

[hineyrulz]

Really?

I guess you know better than NRL Stats then :roll:

Yes i do ;-)

 

[Timmah]

Stupid NRL Stats had the columns wrong

:-$

 

[chemicalbrother]

if Grothe didn't ground that ball

Slater didn't ground it for his try

ARE YOU WATCHING UNION because Slater ground the ball where Grothe lost by fantastic last ditch effort by the storm

 

[hineyrulz]

Stupid NRL Stats had the columns wrong

:-$

Okay mate, i won't tell if you won't ;-)

 

[kia ora storm]

WTF was Bellamy thinking last night not playing Chambers. In hindsight it was an impressive win when you consider that we had a 3 man bench. But WTF Bellamy you gotta be smarter then that. Ridiculous.

Im starting to become disillusioned with Bellamys game plan again, where playing like Brisbane of 2000 again (yawn).

And Cooper Cronk, anyone who thinks this bloke is an elite half-back is kidding themselves, his game consists of average pass or step-back inside, no slight of hand whatsoever, he needs to borrow a bit of Scott Princes or JT show-and-go he's become way to predictable.

Did Inglis play last night cause I didnt see him. He's scored only 6 tries this year but the Coaches will tell you he has 12 (?) try assists. Well last year he had 18 tries (with 2 months out) as well at least 10 try assists. Either build the whole structure around him all move him back out wide.

Cronk has had an average season and his kicking game has been horrible in the last month...he appears to have lost all accuracy and his high balls are below average.

Inglis is a ghost and needs to become more prominent to give Storm the momentum needed to bury teams...I would shift Geyer into firts five and give Inglis room to move out wide.

 

[Fast Eddie]

69 tackles is pretty crazy.

 

[Noa]

Cronk has had an average season and his kicking game has been horrible in the last month...he appears to have lost all accuracy and his high balls are below average.

Inglis is a ghost and needs to become more prominent to give Storm the momentum needed to bury teams...I would shift Geyer into firts five and give Inglis room to move out wide.

Greg was playing well at 5/8 while Billy was out injured. The problem is, I think that when Billy chimes into the backline on our left side he reduces the amount of space that GI has to work with.

Billy needs to run a line back on the inside of Greg every now and again to i) Give Greg more room to get on the outside of his man ii) Create hesitation in the defence when they slide across which again will open up more room on the outside.