This is weird. Some pretty good football minds on here and still the laying of blame seems so shallow. Maybe it was the fact you watched it on TV guys, But I really think if you saw that performance today live, you would see the failure of the side for what it was.
Nothing to do with wingers and centres at all, although every week that seems to be the blame point. we were ONE. read it. ONE prop forward short of our strongest pack our there today........and we were rolled well and truly by THAIDAY, happily assisted by Webcke who our pack just could not contain either.
hutch and galloway played well by their standards today, they really did, Keith in attack is really stepping up each week and has shown alot more starch and anger in his play, but he is still very green and needs to show that same starch and anger in defence, webcke just picked him and ran at him without worry and gained thru the advantage line every time. Stevo had a great first half and went missing after that, gallen played well behind beaten props, as did bails in the first half, again a slow 2nd half for him.
Yet we want to take about centres , wingers, and halfbacks here ....
like I said, weird.
When nod got castigated in origin I for played shyte by the rest of the league world, sharks fans as a whole correctly pointed out that the pack he played behind got rolled and needed to lift for game II. Why then do we not accept that sometimes our pack gets beat, and when it does we look , like most footy teams , average.