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Message: [QUOTE="Porthoz, post: 2675990, member: 2221"] I'm one of the biggest Maranta critics, but I agree with you here. I'm more critical of Maranta in other aspects of the game, namely his almost invisible presence in attack, lack of speed (Simmons left him for dead, and Milford came from behind to catch him), and weird lack of confidence under the high ball, letting it bounce twice, once in defense which almost lead to a try against us, were it not for Kahu's heroics. Maybe he's more confident on the right side... Regardless, a left combo of Reed/Maranta is not going to deliver much, if anything, in attack. I much rather have a Copley/Oates combo there! Reed was very good defensively though, I will give him that. On the game itself, I think we lacked control and a kicking game, and I'm not sure we will get it with the Hunt/Milford combo, both great individual players, and capable of deciding a game in a clutch moment, but not so good at controlling a game, which is what Soward did so well for the Panthers and almost got them a win! I definitely do not agree we didn't deserve the win though. Our defense was positively impenetrable (despite the lack of line speed), and we were the only team who crossed the line multiple times and looked like scoring a try. It should honestly have been a comfortable win, had we had better control and patience with the 5th tackle options. [/QUOTE]

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