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Message: [QUOTE="Jedhead, post: 3169824, member: 9518"] Having slept on it I'm of a firm mind that last night the team were much more committed, Boyd and Kahu to an extent were the exceptions. There was more aggression in the tackle and there were a few occasions where Joffa stood up to JWH. Not sure about the knee to Friend's head. I don't think it was deliberate and it was JWH that knocked him out and then berated the ref to take some action. We were obviously seriously under-strength and no Broncos supporter should feel we were as bad as those one-eyed laughing hyenas from south of the border are making out. Defence is an issue of course, but that does not magically get fixed just because Pies left a few days ago. We need time to learn proper defensive systems and we need to have practiced those systems for so long that we have the confidence in them. One of our biggest issues is our inability to bring the ball back from our own line. Oates used to make yards but that is long gone. Aside from him our other backline players just find it a challenge to break the line or at least get us over the advantage line so that our next set can continue the momentum. All of our young backs are just not experienced or hardened enough to NRL and invariably find themselves being pushed backwards instead of bending the line and offering up a quick play the ball. if this one area was rectified it would give our forwards such a huge boost in momentum for the remainder of the set. The side we are running on at present is all we can muster, but as i said at least i feel (except for a couple) they are genuinely having a go right until the 80th minute. i never got the feeling last night that the side did their usual head drop after 30 or so points. Towards the end they were still competing despite the comical officiating they were confronted with. [/QUOTE]

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