Round 6 Vs Storm

[franklin2323]

I’d still like to see us get Crichton involved more. Just doesn’t seem to get enough touches, or at least quality ball.

1st game with the 1st choice spine those things will come

 

[Jane Murray]

Now we need the Sea Eagles to defeat the Raiders, and we remain in 3rd spot.

 

[franklin2323]

Edwards was a great improvement happy to have him back.

That To’o try earlier on in the year was going to ground with Aekins back there. He does the basics well

 

[chrisD]

Good win. We are improving in all aspects and have lots of room left to improve. Backline plays particularly seemed to have had a lot more time and were under less pressure tonight.

 

[Panfa]

I thought mansour was shaky tonight.Dont like billy burns on the bench came on and gave away 2 dumb penalties.Burton should have came on before burns and maybe api doesnt injure his shoulder.Tamou needs to go at seasons end hes got no go forward this yr.Lastly anyone know who won the 7 a side game tonight between both teams fringe 1st graders.

 

[kinghippo]

The thing I liked the most about that game was Melbourne played well.
We beat them because we were the better team.

 

[Kilkenny]

I thought mansour was shaky tonight.Dont like billy burns on the bench came on and gave away 2 dumb penalties.Burton should have came on before burns and maybe api doesnt injure his shoulder.Tamou needs to go at seasons end hes got no go forward this yr.Lastly anyone know who won the 7 a side game tonight between both teams fringe 1st graders.

We just beat the Storm which we have only achieved twice in our last 20 or so games.

Could be just me but I thought Josh was enormous again. I haven’t looked at their stats but I thought he was huge for us.

 

[soc123_au]

We just beat the Storm which we have only achieved twice in our last 20 or so games.

Could be just me but I thought Josh was enormous again. I haven’t looked at their stats but I thought he was huge for us.

Apart from the offload that went wrong I thought he was pretty good too.

 

[Kilkenny]

Maybe it’s just me but feel ecstatic. It just feel’s so good right now. It wasn’t perfect, it probably wasn’t top four performance but frankly I just don’t care we just beat the storm, I wasn’t expecting it and I just feel good right now.

 

[The_Frog]

Apart from the offload that went wrong I thought he was pretty good too.

Gave away a penalty when we could have had six again right on their line as well. Apart from those errors he worked hard.

 

[soc123_au]

Gave away a penalty when we could have had six again right on their line as well. Apart from those errors he worked hard.

The penalty call was pretty harsh. Thats more Klien than Sauce.

 

[Panfa]

Klein was at it again tonight 7-0 with the 6 to go calls.Bellamy had a whinge last week and look what happens.We won and played well but we could have won that game much easier than we did.Not a fan of the chooks but i hope they give it to parra tomorrow night.

 

[Alintheeast]

We just beat the Storm which we have only achieved twice in our last 20 or so games.

Could be just me but I thought Josh was enormous again. I haven’t looked at their stats but I thought he was huge for us.

Actually have beaten them twice in the last three games now.

 

[The Realist]

My overall thoughts.

Edwards was a huge upgrade - he really got the momentum started for our team and whilst not a ball playing fullback is competent enough.

Laui did very well. The Storm threw everyhting bar the kitchen sink at him and he held up well defensively as well as giving our left edge extra bite.

Api was much better this week.

Martin is very underrated - he is a damaging 2nd rower especially when he gets the ball at speed.

Clearys kicking and defense was excellent as usual. He guided the team around competently though his hands are still a worry - he struggles to put players in holes and does he have a cut out pass at all? A play or 2 before the Kikau try he missed a 4 on 2 overlap. This lack of vision bothers me - if he had good vision he'd be a complete elite halfback in the Thurston/Johns mold.

Yeo was always going to make a good lock - pleased to see him develop his game.

Our middle forwards held up okay defensively but were bashed in attack and hardly made any metres. Tamou is done as an elite 1st grader - he is becoming average fast.

Luckily our back 3 make up for it in spades. Josh was great - except he had his 1-2 brain explosions that often undo all the good work. lucky for us we held on.

Still not a fan of Cleary having bench players get little to no game time. It didn't cost us this time, but it might in the future and has in the past.

 

[franklin2323]

On the bench usage.

One Storm player got 8 mins... so everyone does it

 

[franklin2323]

Great game! One loss all year and beat roosters and storm.

Gotta give Ivan a wrap, we are a much better side this year than last year.

How much of it is Barrett? He is signing of the year

 

[age.s]

Yessss. How good is it beating those purple cheating bastards? I loved watching Smith have a whinge about a dud call then refusing to challenge it. I loved watching him later throw his challenge away on a nothing call. I especially loved watching him cat out trying to knock Crichton off his chase only for Kikau to waltz on behind him and score. Poor old boating enthusiast.

That was supremely pleasing. Our spine looks really really good. How long has it been since we've been able to say that? 2004? Api has been unbelievable. I thought he'd be an upgrade but he's been a revelation. Luai is throwing in one or two massive moments each week (ie that cut out ball). Edwards is even harder to tackle than usual and is actually chiming into backline moves. And Cleary has really levelled up imo. Had it on a string and he's better at picking moments to run with more variety in his game generally.

I'm excited. Even in 2018 we still felt a bit too flawed. We're a much more well rounded team than we have been in a decade. Just need the injury gods to stay away.

 

[MugaB]

Great performance across the park very happy with that win.

Don’t wanna sound like a bitch but the set restarts were Melbourne 7 Penrith 0 what a f**king joke how does Melbourne of all teams not commit one Rick infringement in 80 minutes? f**king Klein lol

That haftime niggle with klien and cam smith was a beauty, Cameron you wanna challenge?
I was praising klien till i saw near the end of the game when Melbourne got their 15th 6again.... fkin rort!

P.s. Mansours done, please bring Naden back, with the rest of the squad as is

 

[MugaB]

Anyone else notice Api holding his shoulder at the end of the game.
Hope its not too bad.

Massive amount of tackles will leave you sore there, he seemed fine in his post match interview

 

[MugaB]

I say drop Whare, and put Matt Burton, or Jarome Laui there.

No way, whare and To'o combo is really strong defensively, its the otherside i worry about, Chricton is getting found out a bit which ok as he is young, but mansour is killing me with his brainfarts, that could have easily lost us the game, the way the ref was giving away set restarts to storm willynilly.
Naden on the wing will make us completely devastating in regards to running meters out of our end