Rewatched the game last night when I got home and wow it was just as enjoyable, what an amazing game it was and I am so happy I got to experience it live!
A few takes from it:
- Feel terrible for Edwards after how good he was and has been going, it was almost like he wanted to step up more than anybody in this game because of Cleary being out. Hopefully he is back for us sooner rather than later.
- How good was it seeing the ferrrari in full flight to deny the Fox that try, it happened basically right in front of me at the ground and my initial reaction was to think it was try time but damn Staines is quicker than I thought. Beautiful instincts for his try too, lots of wingers wouldn’t have the smarts to do that and I thought it was a highly impressive play. Literally looked like Hynes had been ankle broken in an NBA highlight lol
- Brian To’o is an absolute monster, the work he puts in for our team isn’t normal. A few times in this game he took a hard carry and it almost felt like he took the follow up hit up too that’s how much work he was putting in. Fast becoming one of my favourite players.
- Yeo is quite easily the best 13 in the competition in my eyes, can’t think of any other lock that has the abilities needed to cover both style of lock that we mostly see at this point in that he can take a hard carry dragging players for huge amounts of PCM as well as being able to link the play to our halves with immense precision. Add to that he seems like such a good man off the field and he is the perfect player to lead our boys.
- Spencer was FIRED up for this one. Any talk of him getting a suspension for that shot he put on is ludicrous, it was just a heavy tackle that is getting viewed a certain way because the player was injured afterwards. I was directly in line with the tackle but on the opposite side of the field and the sound that it made was like somebody clapping directly into my ear. I can’t wait to see him continue to develop into an enforcer of our already ridiculous pack.
- Fish is Fish, the man never takes a backwards step and can’t remember the last time he wasn’t one of the best players on field.
- I think the way our second rowers are being used and rotated so far this season is much more ideal. Kikau looks the best he ever has because of the lower minutes he is playing and both Capes and Martin are so high quality too. Kikau keeps surprising me more with his defence than his attack, he looks like a nightmare to be tackled by with his speed and power.
- Continue to like what I see from the new players in the team. Even after getting folded by the cheese early on Eisenhuth seemed to put in a lot of work and seems to be fitting in more for us as each game goes on. I thought Momo was solid again too and has more the right to hold onto that spot.
- Although he has been pretty quiet in attack so far I think Crichton has worked hard on the defensive side of his game, he seems to be making a lot of the right reads and is a lot stronger in the contact he makes. The attack will come soon enough I have no doubt.
- Matt Burton had a great game and showed exactly why we should be holding onto him for the rest of this season.
- In following that, even though we won I think last nights game showed that Nathan Cleary is still our most important player. His dominance both on and off the ball is huge for us.
I probably have a few more points to make but I can’t be bothered for anymore at this stage haha will update post as I think of anymore!
