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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3634085, member: 9052"] I missed the game on Saturday night, but decided to put myself through a replay tonight. I don't think we were too bad overall and it was Royce Hunt who absolutely changed the game when he came on... we couldn't handle him and Talakai and their aggression. Basically all their points came in the 10mins after halftime because our bench got absolutely dominated by theirs... and too many critical errors. I thought that Madden was pretty good to be honest... I think he easily outplayed Ezra, which is just not good enough from Ezra. Madden is just a fill in to get us around the park and we needed far more from Mam. Last year during origin it was Reynolds who stepped up and carried us through the period and losing him just before origin started could be a killer. Patty was excellent... insane the amount we now rely on him though... mostly because Reynolds is out. Our issue is we have absolutely no one else in the squad that can get even close to the ball playing that Patty provides and our attack starts off the back of him so much now that it means we can never take him off the field unless we get to a comfortable position on the scoreboard, which is just not happening. In regards to the game I just think we have too many guys that aren't top 17 players having to play big roles ... you can handle that when it's only a couple and the other guys are supporting them or if the competition for spots across the squad is strong and the next guys up are genuine chances to crack the top 17, but the depth just doesn't look great at the moment. - Sailor poor with errors, but provided next to nothing in attack... don't recall him firing a shot. Really poor from him and Ezra - Oates some absolutely critical errors... just can't be dropping it on first tackle after defending 4 sets back to back - Baker just really poor... got absolutely dominated by the opposing bench and then also had some absolutely killer errors. I think Kevvie basically hooked him when he rushed Payne and Jensen back on Piakura is a bit of an issue as well... the Trindall try was through him and he was seriously labouring at the end of the game. He needs to not be in origin camp and really needs to clamp down and focus entirely on his game. He looks like he's a year off being a regular 80mins starting second rower at the moment and I think we really needed Capewell for 12 more months or needed to do better at replacing him just so we didn't have to go all in and could've still eased him into first grade with resting and/or starting from the bench. I thought Gos was alright... maybe we could look to start him on the edge and then bring Piakura on at 30mins or so to ensure we keep easing him into first grade? [/QUOTE]

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