Round 7 vs Warriors

[Frank Facer]

We played very well tonight.
That was probably the best game of the season so far.

 

[Drag Queen]

Disagree mate.

McInnes has been one of our best tonight.

Just that luke has been the best player on the field...

Someone did their homework. Even as a Drag's supporter, Luke played out of his skin tonight. Kudos to them.

 

[Dragsters]

Our most dangerous player Tonite - took Hiku to school all night!

He got my 3 points...

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

Aren't ou the bloke that thinks Rein is a better hooker? Have you told Fittler this?

No, I'm really the bloke who knows that McInnes isn't an upgrade on Rein.

Tonight's performance reaffirmed this...again.

 

[rednwhites]

I must question (not being at the game) why the 10 metre penalties basically dried up in the second half. Did Kearney coach it out of them or did the ref fill his quota at half time???

 

[Drag Queen]

Aren't ou the bloke that thinks Rein is a better hooker? Have you told Fittler this?

Give it up Mickey.. You put the mocker on us. What exactly has this to do with Rein? Just bloody curious? Can't blame him for that one.

 

[Brutalitops]

No, I'm really the bloke who knows that McInnes isn't an upgrade on Rein.

Tonight's performance reaffirmed this...again.

Funny, another forum I'm a part of had Titans fans dreading Rein now being their 80 minute hooker (which he only can manage through injury)

Even saw a one ask some Dragons fans if they can swap him for McImnes

 

[Dragsters]

No, I'm really the bloke who knows that McInnes isn't an upgrade on Rein.

Tonight's performance reaffirmed this...again.

C'mon man...

 

[mickeylane]

No, I'm really the bloke who knows that McInnes isn't an upgrade on Rein.

Tonight's performance reaffirmed this...again.

Well he will be the SOO hooker so you better get used to that

 

[VodkaSaint]

so we looked flat and made some costly errors.
1. Widdop missed a one on one, warriors score.
2, Graham thought he would take matter in his own hands and left Duty on his own, warriors score.
3. Nene dropped the ball with the line wide open.
4. And what happened to taken our goal chances?
these moments may have changed the game had saints Saints kept their composure .
Widdop unlucky not to score, Lafai unlucky not to score twice.
The there is Luke, he killed us, what a game he had.
Not too disappointed Tonight, we have improved on last year, just need to bounce back real smart Like the Warriors.
Go Saints and the Vodka

 

[Drag Queen]

There's no way known Dufty's predecessor would have allowed himself to be a speed bump as what Luke did to Dufty.

Speaking of Luke, he has given McInnes a touch up tonight.

MacDonald: back to his lazy self. Imagine if he caught that simple pass from Lafai in the first half.

Ben Hunt needs to run the ball a hell of a lot more in games.

You're right Jimmy. I thought it would be a tight one but Luke was definitely the difference.

 

[Old Timer]

Take aways for me

1. We were obsessed with plays around Dufty
2. We were not as deep in attack and players were slowing down to take some passes thus we lost momentum.
3. We tried to play a highly structured game which the Warriors shut down quite easily.
4. As I suspected would be the case in attack Graham is getting too much ball at critical stages. He will make 7 metres and they will be all over him thus slowing down the play the ball.
5. Hunt needs to be far more intuitive and take the line on much more.
6. We are getting kick happy and far too many are bombs what happened to the ball in behind for the line drop out?
7. The mass interchange has been tried for a few weeks and IMO does us no favours at all, we need to go back to the staggered interchange that worked so perfectly well in the 1st few games.
8. Key forward off at the same time and for far too long probably related to point 7.
9. What happened to Sele?

 

[Life's Good]

Disappointed with the loss but the Warriors are a very good team with a lot to prove. Down on players they just wanted it more.
I put the loss to 3 lazy efforts-
Widdop missed tackle - try
Hunts missed tackle - try
Nene dropped pass - no try
Not converting all that early possession really put us on the back foot. I felt we were never out of it but just couldn’t click into another gear(their rushing line speed saw to that).
It’s now a massive game vs. Roosters who will be sensing blood.

 

[mickeylane]

Agreed mate.

We just looked a tad flat and they looked super amped...

They were offside for the first 25 minutes and were accordingly penalised 8-1 in that period and should have had 2 sin bins during this period - they ran the gauntlet and got away w it..

 

[dragonssamy61]

I look forward to all the negative nancys coming out of the woodwork with doom and gloom over a single loss. We've been brave but warriors linespeed has been just unreal, we were unlucky a few times.

Onward to the Roosters!

Some are already bagging everyone

 

[O'Sullivan]

We need to remember that Dufty's best weapon is his explosive speed. Obvious. But the repetitive backline move tonight allowed their backs to target him early. He cannot run around players all the time.

 

[Drag Queen]

Well he will be the SOO hooker so you better get used to that

Stop speaking. You're annoying me. Warriors were all over him and Dufty. Cook will be first choice. If I'm wrong I'll eat humble pie. In the meantime I'll drink a couple more whiskeys and hit the sack.

 

[Gareth67]

Can I say it , dare I say it ? This was the loss we had to have . Quite simply we were outplayed by the Warriors who had done their homework against us . That plus the Mt.Smart hometown atmosphere spurred them on.

They were the better side and as such deserved the competition points tonight , we were courageous in defeat and sure there were a few things that didn't go our way , but all in all the Dragons left the field with their heads held high .

The boys came up against a tough team in this match and had to fight for each point , but this will serve us well in the weeks to come . We will go to bed feeling disappointed but wake tomorrow knowing the Dragons will be there in the end of season matches .

 

[Dragons22]

Got a question with the Lafai no try. When Graham and RTS had their encounter, what goes on there? So Graham and RTS contact with Graham knocking on the ball, into RTS but then he played on. Was their a tackle after that? Or not? If not, still confused as to why no try, there were about three passes and the encounter was in the air, shouldn’t it have been play on? What did our mates in the bunker say about that? Seems like a pretty bogus decision to me.

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

I guess you can construe a loss to be a failure but i actually felt that was one the better performances of the year by the boys. A couple were quieter than usual ie Dufty and McDonald but they will come back from this. I also think the advantage rule should have been applied for the Lafai no try, completely changed the momentum we had built.

The better team won on the night they simply out enthused us for most of the game.....we had ample penalties and opportunities but our composure and structure just wasnt tbere imo....we were vey bunched at times and flat footed...our kicks in general play wernt up to our normal standard....sorry but I think it was not one of our better games this year...still it was bound to hapoen sooner or later...shame its happened right now with a 4 day turn around