Round 2 vs Souths

[Reflector]

Was listening to the radio before the game started. They were saying that the Illawarra has the best football nursery in the world. If that’s true, then why is our team so fuxking shit?

Best football nursery in the world-

Apart from Penrith, Parramatta, the Sutherland Shire and the Hunter Valley, I assume...

 

[maestro1]

I think people need to get past the expectation that experienced = perfect. Cook, Guthos and Val aren't perfect. No one is. They will make mistakes. That is a fact. The fact that Val missed so many conversions, Cook kicked the ball out and then got caught on the last and Gutho missed Marmezoulos on the tryline ALL in the SAME game is just bad luck. They all had really good moments in that game as well. Sometimes it's just the Footy Gods are against you. It didn't help that Klein made sure that souths had every opportunity to get the maximum amount of opportunities in that last 15min. The "forward" pass from Liddle was so line ball........The Storm players must have fell on the ground laughing when Klein called it forward. That is every pass from dummy half for the Storm for 2 decades.

 

[baggygreen man]

Ilias appears struggling under weight of expectation... a run in the Cup might be what he needs.

Post this after at least 6 games. The guy is coming off a season out of league, new expectation. He needs to be given confidence not added pressure. Flanno saw this by foning the kid and apologising for his heat of the moment comments in the post match presser.

 

[R&WTILLIDIE]

Best football nursery in the world-

Apart from Penrith, Parramatta, the Sutherland Shire and the Hunter Valley, I assume...

it’s the riff…daylight second…then everyone else. Illawarra is no where near the best.

 

[Rocket Rod]

I think people need to get past the expectation that experienced = perfect. Cook, Guthos and Val aren't perfect. No one is. They will make mistakes. That is a fact. The fact that Val missed so many conversions, Cook kicked the ball out and then got caught on the last and Gutho missed Marmezoulos on the tryline ALL in the SAME game is just bad luck. They all had really good moments in that game as well. Sometimes it's just the Footy Gods are against you. It didn't help that Klein made sure that souths had every opportunity to get the maximum amount of opportunities in that last 15min. The "forward" pass from Liddle was so line ball........The Storm players must have fell on the ground laughing when Klein called it forward. That is every pass from dummy half for the Storm for 2 decades.

I agree with all of above. That forward pass from Liddle was flat and is always ruled fair. If Holmes wasn’t off with boot we win. The game against Dogs they scored off a blatant forward pass = 6 points. Holmes off with boot again if not we would’ve won, whether overall we deserved to it doesn’t matter.
Im sure Holmes will return to his 80% soon, just footy gods not smiling on us.
Yes we need to improve a lot like most sides, new combos etc. We should see at halfway mark where we are at. Relax after all we have vastly improved our flair to score some spectacular tries. I have a feeling Sloan will develop into a first class winger he was a shining light in an unfortunate day.