Vs England Denver 2018

[Philip_Smith007]

Luke penalised for pretty dog play.
Poms take the 2 points.
12 all

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Poms penalised DWZ taken out catching bomb.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Seems to be a tactic not to kick on last if inside the 10m.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

What did Maumalo do there?
Widdop chip through and he ran towards player not the ball.
Whitehead 5m in front of kicker who ever put him onside, poms score.
Bad miss by officials.
12-18

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Kicked out kickoff again.
Widdop taking the 2 points from halfway.
12-20

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Some great buildup in that set but Whitehead hits FMW from behind and loses ball.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Nikorima and JWH couldn't tackle Conner who sells the dummy on DWZ to score.
12-26

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Pathetic.
Who chased that mistake?
2 players
Ese puts ball down on Poms 20m and they ru away with it.
.
12-32

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Do we learn???
3rd kick off out on full!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

DWZ scores off a JWH offload to Luke.
18-32
10min to go.

 

[Cloudsurfer]

Do we learn???
3rd kick off out on full!

Kicking a ball at altitude, adjust...

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Another knock on in backline by a bsckrower.
RFM knocks on a promising set.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Poms can do high shots, but JWH is not.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

2.5 years till Green can play for us, as not sure who is the best 6 moving forward.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Off the back of throwing an intercept.
Poms score.
Sam helped like union there.
Should have been no try.

18-36

 

[Burns]

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Add in SJ, RTS etc and look much more capable. Really liked Marsters on debut.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Poor Slade Griffin comes on at 12all.
Take off at 12-32

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Add in SJ, RTS etc and look much more capable. Really liked Marsters on debut.

Entertaining game, lots in it.
Refs some howlers but not the reason we lost.
Some poor hands and mistakes at times that if they didn't happen we probably would have near won it.
3 kick offs out on full stands out as stupid stuff.
Halves not great.
Kicking game needs work.
Did we not practice our short goal line kicks?
More than a week together might improve some things.

Agree much better than expected, but the start makes you feel like we threw that one away.

 

[sup42]

One team looked like an international test side, and the other looked like a strung together festival entertainment side.

Test match footy was the winner on the day.

The Kiwis literally ran out of gas by not having the fifth tackle options to structure a game plan.

It was all second phase (exciting to watch) and running football...until they ran themselves flat and no one was running it straight anymore.

Our completions let us down badly, those kick offs did my head in.

3. NAS
2. DWZ
1. Luke (missed out on mom due to the kick offs and that hand stomp).

Hopefully Luke doesnt cop a ban...however the Sharks game was meant to be a weekend off for the test players in any case.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Hopefully Luke doesnt cop a ban...however the Sharks game was meant to be a weekend off for the test players in any case.

It looks like he is looking at the hand when he stands on it, but Luke will claim lack of oxygen to his brain after elbow to windpipe blurred his vision.

Also does NRL have jurisdiction on USA soil?

Someone get Johnnie Cochran on the phone!