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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2672730, member: 1899"] BRISBANE BRONCOS 50, PARRAMATTA EELS 28 Not sure what happened, but it seemed like the Broncos waited until the Eels hit 12 points before they started to play. They showed absolutely no urgency and the Eels really punished them for it, laying on three very well constructed tries inside 10 minutes. The tries all came off the back of the Eels ascendancy in the ruck, the forwards would draw the defence and then the backs would take the right options and burn the Broncos on the fringes. I thought Drew's defence was particularly concern. However the forwards finally woke up, made some big hits, pressued the Eels defence and earn the team a penalty. This brought Taylor into the game and he just had one of those periods where he turned the tide of the game. Scores a try, kicks a 40/20, lays a try on for Drew, think he may have set one up for Pearson but the Broncos site has credited it to Nikorima. Whoever threw it, threw a great pass and Pearson made the most of it. Brisbane continued to score tries at a leisurely pace and despite the Eels getting one back completely against the run of play, the game was virtually over at 40-16. However, the Eels scored two converted tries with 15 to go to breathe life into the game. The Broncos did well to quash it pretty quick with Nikorima earning a nice quick play the ball allowing Taylor to turn Drew back on the inside for a determined try. Then Nikorima grabbed a try out of dummy half to take the score to 50. With seconds remaining there was a fun passage where the Broncos put up a huge hail merry kick, the Eels had it, made a break, put a kick only for Nikorima to grab it on the fly, put a kick in of his own, regather only for his attempted offload to find the Eels player. The Eels player shaped to pass it to his support but the Bronco knocked it down, calling an end to the game. Basically, it was a slow start, but Brisbane woke up took the lead and the Eels really struggled to get back into it after that. Not the best performance but plenty of good individual performances and positives to take out of it. [/QUOTE]

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