The Dogs were outplayed, outcoached and generally just plain crap.
But, what I don't get is the Dogs were penalised a couple of times for slowing down the play the ball in the first half, one in particular was pretty soft. It contributed to Storm having almost 70% of possession and from there, they understandably put on a heap of points.
But, fair enough I thought if the refs are going to be consistent. Yet, in the second half when the Dogs had a chance of coming back at them, the Storm were laying all over the play the ball and were not penalised once.
Now I hate the Dogs as much as any normal, level headed league fan, but they weren't given a chance to stage a comeback. Not that they deserved to win it but nevertheless, consistency in the play the ball was non existent, and definately favoured the Storm.
Really? I thought there was big creep on, particularly out wide with waqa, chambers etc. definitely affected our ability to go wide
Anyway, I was watching the game from quite high mate so probably had a different perspective to most of the learned folk on here.
Me too. Melbourne got the rub of the green last night - especially in the ruck. Kasiano being penalised because Storm gimp was trying to push him out of the way -ffs!
BTW - good opening post Moffo. Love the "butthurt" replies - some people just cannot resist huh?
Souths 69 - won 70
Parra 76 - gf 77
Parra 77 - semis 78
Dogs 79, won 80
Manly 82, gf 83
Parra 84 - final 85
Balmain 88, gf 89
Penrith 90, won 91
Dragons 92, gf 92
Dogs 94, won 95
Manly 95, won 96
Roosters 03, gf 04
Melbourne 06, won 07*
Manly 07, won 08
Melbourne 08, won 09*
Yeah, great theory Galetard you f*cking clown :lol::lol::lol:
The Dogs were outplayed, outcoached and generally just plain crap.
But, what I don't get is the Dogs were penalised a couple of times for slowing down the play the ball in the first half, one in particular was pretty soft. It contributed to Storm having almost 70% of possession and from there, they understandably put on a heap of points.
But, fair enough I thought if the refs are going to be consistent. Yet, in the second half when the Dogs had a chance of coming back at them, the Storm were laying all over the play the ball and were not penalised once.
Now I hate the Dogs as much as any normal, level headed league fan, but they weren't given a chance to stage a comeback. Not that they deserved to win it but nevertheless, consistency in the play the ball was non existent, and definately favoured the Storm.
Souths 69 - won 70
Parra 76 - gf 77
Parra 77 - semis 78
Dogs 79, won 80
Manly 82, gf 83
Parra 84 - final 85
Balmain 88, gf 89
Penrith 90, won 91
Dragons 92, gf 92
Dogs 94, won 95
Manly 95, won 96
Roosters 03, gf 04
Melbourne 06, won 07*
Manly 07, won 08
Melbourne 08, won 09*
Yeah, great theory Galetard you f*cking clown :lol::lol::lol:
Most of the other 28 teams made the semis you genius. Apart from the repeat grand finallists, I only included 2 Parra semi finals results. If i could be bothered (couldnt), I'd further disprove your theory by stating all those who backed up to make the finals.again you prove you are a stupid LOUDmouth.
In the last 43 years you have shown that losers of the GF , only 8 of 43 won a GF the following year ( of which only 6 Count). that is NOT a good success rate , when a lot of folks will say that we will go one better the next year due to the experience.
You also show that another 7 GF losers made Finals or GF the following year. So 15 teams had some success the following year , what about the other 28 teams you derp brain? You prove my point , as i never said ALL.
dope
recently how did warriors go this year ? what about the Eels after their last GF appearance? I expect same for Bulldogs next year , you can bet on them to make the 2013 GF you dope.