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Message: [QUOTE="jamesqld, post: 2777217, member: 8306"] Well that sucked... after seeing how intense thst game was and how spent the boys were at the 80 min mark i was thinking this effort will really flatten which ever team moved onto next week. My big rant about what stood out to me tonight. Boyd was immense. Up there with his best games IMO. So many quality runs out of dummy half, quality grubbers, around 200m (depending on what stats site), setting up Oates. There was one stage about 3/4 through the game Hunt put up a bomb and Boyd sprinted through as the only chaser just as eager as he was in the first few minutes. His fitness and leadership is outstanding. The rest of the team need to pay more attention to his efforts. There is no one even close to him as captain next year, or even this year... Was that Pearson out there or JYY? Big call i know, but he had a great game for a rookie. Great mixture of size, speed and skill. We are going to have some head aches picking out 2-5 next year. Oppa getting injured was a major turning point. We always seem to lose an outside back this year and although Glenn gives it his best out there he just gets burnt with oposition centres speed and Oneil took advantage of that. Oates was massive. He needs to stay on the wing next year, his metres are so valuable, especially with our smaller pack. Pretty surprised the fullback didnt stop him for his try. Raps to him and Boyd for pulling that off when the rest of the team were out on there feat. Milf was rubbish in D. Lots of errors, pretty disappointing overall. Blair was a man on a mission and made some excellent tackles. He did some really stange things toward the end of the game. When he came back on for his last stint his first tackle he was lucky not to give away a penalty then next tackle he gave one away then i think the cowboys scored. He put on 2 or 3 late hits that i thought he was toeing the line with aswell at a stage where we couldnt afford to be penalised. Parker has been a shadow of his former self all year. At the start of the year I thought he had another 2 years in him but I think he made the right choice to call it quits. Thats nothing to be ashamed of though as he is still a quality player, we really missed his 2nd lhase play though. I was so gutted for him in the post match interview. Glenn was great. He runs a sweet line and always puts his body on the line in both attack and D. I think he is primed for a massive hear next year with Parker opening up a starting position in the backrow. Im absolutely filthy Pangai stayed on the bench until extra time. About 20minutes in I had a feeling Bennett would unleash him early, like he was keeping him as a secret weapon for the finals. Especially when we were watching young guns like Ponga snd Hess killing it out there, I don't think his age and inexperience should be and issue... Massive mistake from Bennett in my opinion. Losing Wallace is a massive mistake. He is maturing into a quality prop and just about to hit his prime really early in his career. You can't keep them all though and stleast we managed to re-sign all of our young blokes I suppose. Roberts should feel like he really let the boys down tonight. There wasn't much in what he did last week but we all know the NRL and judicary is so unpredictable and precious. Hess was a weapon on the fringe. He played an outstanding game for a young bloke in an intense match. Taumalolo... Wow! Best performance from a forward I think I have seen. Around the 250m mark, he really rattled us. Only negative was his drop ball at the end there. Our pack has done us well to get to the GF last year (minus McGuire at the end too) and get us this far this year but boy was tonight evident we really missed that big bopper to bend the line and make an impact. With Parker and Wallace going we are putting alot of faith in TPJ, Arrow, Ese and Offa to really step up. I hope these rumours of us signing a forward comes true. [/QUOTE]

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