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Message: [QUOTE="Jedhead, post: 3512292, member: 9518"] I'm bewildered why everyone is going on about the double movement and the Staggs no try when the most blatant was the Walsh no try because Kobe "lost the ball forward into the back of the Penrith defender's head". At no time does Kobe lose control. The ball is firmly in his grasp and knocked out -backwards when it collides with the Riff defender's head. Nevertheless, our poor handling (two in a row that lead to a Riff try) and our stupid ill-discipline that gives away needless penalties is what cost us. Capewell's stupid penalty early on stopped our momentum. It also allowed the Riff to march down field and score their first try. The numpty does it every frikkin week. He can't blame fatigue either as it was early in the first half. He really is a weapons grade liability now. If it's not stupid, needless penalties, it's poor defence. I really don't see the trade off for his 'experience' is worth it now. I think he's become worse than Alex Glenn in that spot. Madden went better and was mostly bombing to where Reyno would, but he was let down by Mam's poor involvement. I wonder how bad his injury is hobbling him? He's not been right since 4 or 5 weeks ago when he took that knock to his knee. Pat Carrigan was immense and his effort (64ish tackles) was a great sign for origin. I just hope he does not burn out during the origin series. If he's still in that form come September we're a big shout. Somebody on here who has lines of communication to Kevvie needs to shout long and hard and tell him to spend as much time working out how to use his bench as effectively as he does on working on our defence. Get back to Flegs coming on after 20. let Jensen start with Pat and Payne. Marty is worth no more than 15 minutes. Lastly, I hope we learned how to 'cheat' legally form the Riff last night. They consistently slowed the ruck down and gave away 6 agains when their defence was not set. But they were always set in time to not commit a third ruck infringement in a row and avoid the sin bin. They did this on a few occasions and got away with it every time. Mind you it's easy to do if you're getting the '50/50' calls in your favour. [/QUOTE]

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