It was great to get a win after last weeks disappointing effort, but gee it would have been nice to close it out earlier and keep my blood pressure down.
We were in full control of that game up until the Warriors scored their first try, but we just seemed to panic from that point and went away from what was working.
I’ll give the Warriors plenty of credit, they played well and did a great job keeping the ball alive to score their tries. Just one of those days where their passes and kicks just went exactly where they were supposed to.
That first 30 minutes had some awesome attacking footy from the Eels. Roll it up through the middle, throw in some short passes around the ruck, go wide when the defence is compressed. Then the errors began creeping into the game. The mistake by Jennings and Sivo bumping into each other going for the ball is unforgivable. That was a 7 tackle set for us that turned into a drop out. The fact that the miscommunication happened again with two other players was not a good sign that we are working well as a team. Mistakes like that shouldn’t happen once let alone twice.
Bombed a couple of tries, but Fergo’s was a very difficult pickup off the ground. Evans probably should have scored his but not sure if he copped a bad bounce or if he just misjudged it completely.
I’d normally not be so critical and enjoy the fact that we won, but we are coming into Finals now and need to get these things right. We have to take our chances when they are presented and not shit the bed when something goes wrong for us. At 16-0 it should never have ended up so close.
