Positive Comments:
No injuries.
All other comments:
- After the first minute of the game I immediately knew that no matter how good we try to play that we would not win the game. The corruption was pretty clear. But wow we played awful.
- The sin bin was obviously a horrible decison by the ref
- The captain challenge was another horrible decison by the ref
- The number of 6 agains on 4th and 5th tackle just because Grant asked the ref for it was BS.
- Iongi getting a high tackle and than a crusher but not getting a penalty for it. Than being sent for the HIA was BS too.
- We lost control of the ruck because we would get pinged for a 6 again the moment we held on for a second. What were the eels meant to do. Two different games were beign reffed. Storm are the one team you CANNOT give loads of possession and a quick ruck too. We have zero match fitness since round 1, so that spine, our errors and refs but it impossible to defend under fatigue. We played 60min with 12 men too.
- Now enough complaining about the ref.
- Kelly and Penisni still cant defend 1 on 1 tackles consistently.
- Pezet is overrated. He is not a 6 and looked good at Storm in theri system. He is slow and a poor defender.
- Da Silva is a reserve grader. 1 year into a 4 year contract and I may have already given up on him. His service is putrid. He cannot control a ruck even though he didnt miss a tackle. His decison making is poor.
- Smith had the worst game of his career. Errors, missed tackle, etc. Really hope this was a one off
- Our bench rotation was completely fucked up because of the Iongi HIA. Our bench was a fullback (Papalii), hooker (TDS) and 2 small forward in Doorey and Walker. They had no chance in competing with Storms elite spine and big forward pack once they got a roll on (plus refs help).
No one is saying we played a great game or were not poor with our handing. We hurt oursleves for sure. But apply all the context. Refs fucking over from the start. The bench we had to use cause of the HIA BS. The countless 6 agains. Try to control the ruck and get pinged. Versing the best spine in the comp with all of that is impossible even if we completed well the refs wouldnt let us win I am certain of it.
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Both deserve to make their NRL debut at some point during the year. Twiddle will find it hard with Papalii and Iongi in front of him. Lorenzo could easily become first choice 6 by the end of the year over Papalii and Pezet.
Lets hope every forward is banned from offloading for the first half next week. Just have a full set of six and kick to the corner, then defend. Get into the game and then offload and attack.
Yep this is correct throw in the errors also and this is losing footy.
Take in who and where your playing basically it's like digging the hole and Melbourne go thank you and cover the hole up with dirt.That's 24 years in a row round 1 victories thanks Parra for making this process painless and easy.Damn what a gift and it's not even my birthday or Xmas.
bring back BA
I generally agree. Some points too:
1. Moment Papalii came in, he should just be the backup 9. Shut out Da Silva.
2. THere is no problem there with Da Silva playing NSW Cup for a few weeks. So what he has a big contract? Make Joash the utility. Ryley can also handle 80 mins in a less intense game.
3. The refereeing was horrible but we also were ill disciplined in the Roosters trial. We are playing a delicate balance with trying to slow the ruck and trying to get away from it. We need more maturity to handle it which won't come easy.
4. We again went for the fancy offloads and fast movement too early sometimes and lost possession, compounding things. We again need to be better here.
--> Both of the above points are mentality points. That's our limitation, and it is an OK limitation as if we solve our mentality for compete for the Prem. That's always the difference between the top teams and everyone else. I trust Ryles to instil this. I choose to.
5. Defending. Kelly, like Da Silva, needs a NSW cup stint when Addo-Carr comes back. Or even play Samrani next week and put Russell back to centre. Penisini has done better end of last year but yesterday was not good. This is the main concern for me now. Needs straight improvement next week.
6. Finally, Melbourne were horny. Grant was ridiculous. That matters too.
So the refs fault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D87qjkutWDg
I think Kempy summarised this game perfectly in speking about the refs but also speaking how poor eels were
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