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Message: [QUOTE="Brotherdu, post: 2814365, member: 9226"] My thoughts - Things I liked - [LIST] [*]Our 2015 defence is back! We scrambled and worked for each other and look like a team again. [*]Hunt's try was amazing. [*]Gillette and McCullough were so good. [/LIST] Things I didn't like - [LIST] [*]Apart from our D, our forwards lacked any kind of impact with the ball. [*]When one out hit ups didn't do anything, what happened to shifting the ball that worked so well last year vs the storm? [*]Benji.......I think he has his place, but he needs to come on with a specific task in mind, like run from dummy half. I can't remember who he replaced, but he had zero impact and the storm made more metres targeting him. We missed having an extra forward on the bench. [*]The refs [*]The storm. I keep wondering why we can't have the same type camaraderie with the storm as we do with the cowboys, so many 'QLD Mates'. The contrast in attitude and niggle between the cowboys games and storm games couldn't be more stark, and it is not all the storm.............i'm looking at you Thaiday and Sims. [*]Thaiday and Sims let the storm get to them and gave away stupid penalties right when we needed them to stand up and lead from the front. Very disappointing. Worst game of the season from both of them. [*]Milford was terrible. We lack the ability to change plans mid game. Every time he got the ball, he was smashed. So, how about pass it to someone else out the back every now and then? E.g. when we tackled Slater on suspicion. [*]Hunts kicking is still poor. At least he has the excuse that we were kicking from our own half all night. [/LIST] Other thoughts - [LIST] [*]It's been 3yrs of positive play. Apart from the cowboys, no one seems to be buying into it, specially the refs. Melbourne got away with rubbish the whole game but we got penalised. Time to hire a wrestling coach maybe? Not really, but seriously, the NRL should instruct the refs to play to the most positive team. If Sharks and Storm want to lay all over each other, let them, but if one team is clearly trying to play faster, the refs should encourage a faster more positive game. [*]It's early days, but we really need a 3 or 4 more wins before origin. [/LIST] Overall, I thought it was encouraging although I had a feeling we would lose even though we were in front. We've played 3 of the top 4 teams from last year and have shown we can mix it with the best, BUT, we need to show we can start closing these close ones out, until that happens we are only going to be bridesmaids. [/QUOTE]

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