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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2657522, member: 8215"] I'm only just popping my head in now... Parker received a massive head knock just before he came off. Also, this: Bennett himself said that a couple of players were there for him to test out. Make sure they had the goods. While it won't surprise me to see those same players given another week or two, if they dish up the same shit they'll be gone. My thought would have been to put Whitchurch in the backs and put Hodges at temp hooker (he has a very fast, accurate pass), but obviously Bennett wanted to test him out as a super-sub and see if he could be relied on to be thrown anywhere. He'll be the first to be cut. Exactly. He's nothing but a showpony who is benefiting from being behind one of the greatest wrestling teams of the NRL era. He has a mountain of time for every kick he makes, and has been proven that even that department goes to shit when pressured. His goal kicking is phenomenal though. The spine means nothing if the forwards aren't getting anywhere. You could blame the hooker and the halves for failing to direct them efficiently, but from what I saw last night the gaps were there in the Souths defensive line, we just blew every single opportunity except Gazelle Gillett's 4-pointer. On that note, I actually thought Milford & Hodges combined quite well. Normally Hodges will stifle the attack if it is stuttering, but they put on some very nice moves together as a combination. Again, every time someone blew it. I counted at least 3 bombed tries that Hodges had thrown what should have been the last pass for. And he was given time by Milford (the same Milford who didn't run the ball) because the defence zeroed in on him and allowed him to shovel it out to Hodgo who was locked and loaded with whatever final pass was necessary. Souths weren't that good, they're definitely beatable, we just had the worst execution and discipline in recent memory. Yet we still defended well in the first half, and were able to create opportunities on both sides of the field and in the middle. From what I saw, Reed blew two guaranteed tries (though one of those was at the other end of the field so maybe that's the one that Milford dropped). Gavet dropped two balls right on their line, and he wasn't the only one, I lost count to be honest. Maranta was being taken out all night. Add that to Thaiday's unforgivable penalties (it's like no one has ever pointed it out to him before), the two restarts that went out on the full, and the refs refusing to blow a penalty for (a) wrestling after the held call, (b), not being back the 10, including Dylan Walker's howler, and (c) walking off the mark, we did well to not get beaten by 50. As disappointing as it was, it's a huge wake-up call, we have a slightly better idea of who deserves a jersey, and Bennett at least seems to know where to start fixing things. The worst part for me was the Souths fans. After half time these real deadshits (with, as has been pointed out by others, brand new jerseys or try-hard singlets) sit behind us. One of them says "these are way better seats than ours". The constant "that's why we're the champs, boys", the sense of entitlement just oozing from their every pore. Government handouts, free upgrade to better seats, why wouldn't they expect their (new) team to have guaranteed success? They left with 15 to go. [/QUOTE]

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