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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2496727, member: 8215"] My extensive notes: * The 10 metres was atrocious. If anyone cares to watch this game again (yeah I won't blame you if not), look how far the Broncos are being taken back. Stupidly, one ref handled the Broncos, the other the Warriors, so we were being held back literally 12 - 15 metres every set, the Warriors 8-10 max. It's amazing how easily a game can be influenced by an inconsistent 10. The Warriors were at full speed before the Broncos could even get back. Glenn should seriously have had a word to the ref because it was blatant. The play the ball would be, say 3 metres behind the 30, but the ref would hold the line way past the 40. No wonder the Broncos had no juice left. * Yeah blaming Origin is a weak excuse. But it's valid. The Warriors would have troubled us even with Thaiday, Parker etc there. But with Q-Cup forwards, it was always going to be difficult holding back units like Packer & Matulino. * The first few tries were extremely lucky. Mateo's pass after his chip went 6 metres forward. * Ben Hunt needs to go back to Q Cup. 11 missed tackles? That's Sandow-esque. Prince was worlds above him in attack. * McCullough back-row experiment backfired. He's great defending in the middle, up close before the runner has hit full speed, with the bigger defenders coming in over the top. In the back-row he was a speed hump. Far too small and giving up too much momentum. * On top of all that, once you consider the fact that we had a second-rate Q-Cup pack, who were forced to run an extra 6-10 metres EVERY SET in defence due to the blatantly bad 10 metres, and with a patched-up defensive unit with little experience playing beside each other, I'm not surprised what happened. It played in to the Warriors hands perfectly. Steamroll through, keep the ball alive, and the inexperience and fatigue had the Broncos defenders following each other around like lost ducks, leaving gaping holes everywhere. * Norman has no heart. Not once did he take a kick-return in a straight line to the defence. Even when he was in the middle of the park he ambled sideways and surrendered. An extra ball-playing link in attack is worthless if you can't even start off your sets with enough go-forward to even get in to an attacking position. * The only positive was that they actually showed depth in attack. And it looked beautiful. Solution? Ben Hunt to Q-Cup. No questions. McCullough can stay for now, but Granville on the bench to keep him honest. Norman can piss off to the Eels. Now. It brings me back a few years ago to the big defeats against the Raiders and Rabbitohs. Everyone got a rocket up them, weak links were removed (cough Michaels), and the seasons improved. I seriously hope this will be the case again. But I'm not holding my breath. [/QUOTE]

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