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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2852866, member: 8215"] We played an almost full-strength Storm, who are gearing up their combinations for a deciding Origin game. We played them without Oates, Milford and Boyd, and lost McGuire after about 7 minutes. That there is at least $3 million of next years' cap. And left us with 16 players. Consequently we had gun-shy wingers rushing in every time the ball got near them, with the confidence in each other shattered, causing the centres to overcompensate and leave gaps everywhere. We played a style of football that is high-risk even when the combinations are there, but almost suicide when we have depth players filling in. We got pinged for our one forward pass, and they had at least 6 of them let go, 3 of which were involved in try-scoring plays, as was our one. That's a 4-try turnaround. Any team in that situation would lose by 30. With McGuire back, Oates back, Boyd back (and Kahu back to wing), and Milford giving us another option, it eliminates all the negatives except for the Storm hunger and the Ref's incompetence. As an aside, when that Slater try was called, the refs [I]knew[/I] it was a forward pass. The head ref was saying to the touchies "but what do you want them to check", knowing full well sending it to the video ref would be useless as they can't rule on forward passes. So instead of having the guts to call back a play by the NRL Darlings (2013 SBW all over again), the coward just awards the try. Pathetic. [/QUOTE]

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