Disagree. Herbie holds and moves his shoulder. Wasn’t needed. Even if the ball doesn’t go dead Mam & Arthars had it covered. Just plain dumb from Herbie.
We went from a 7 tackle set to having to face the first 8 mins without Reynolds and down to 12. We kick off 2nd half too!
I’m actually not too disheartened by the loss. We were the better team during the first half and save some brain explosions we could have scored 20+. The 20 points they put on us in the 2nd half wasn’t due to poor defending, but rather weight of possession. As long as that type of performance...
I’ve become a bit ‘bleh’ about The Storm smashing us every time we play them. I’ve become numb to it, so my hatred for them has turned to not caring.
The Cowboys on the other hand, that’s a different story. They beat us once in GF with everything going their way in the last 30 seconds and...
Y’all sleeping on Staggs. If he was eligible for the good guys he would have played close to 12 Origins by now and would be one of the first picked. He is good representative tier, it is just a shame for him he is around the time that Mitchell & Turbo are that good they get picked out of position.
I was reflecting on this today. What was going through his mind when he batted it back? Why not just catch it and take the tackle, especially with 30 secs to go!
Robinson’s actually pretty smart about it. Every now and then he agrees with a decision that went against his team. Usually when they win, so he can seem balanced and respected.
To win premierships you have to be good enough to take poor refereeing out of the equation. We just weren’t good enough on the night. Being at the game it looked like we started with the attitude of, ‘we just need to turn up to win tonight.’ It looked like all the things we had been doing to win...