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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3378792, member: 1899"] Good to see the Broncos fight till the end, I was ropeable about the two dummy half tries but if they play with that spirit that's the Broncos I can get behind right there. I thought the Broncos played much better up tempo footy. The forwards laid a really good platform which brought Staggs into his game and while he wasn't playing as freely as he can he can build off of that performance. I was critical of Oates last week for not stepping up, so I couldn't have been any happier with his performance. He's one of the most important players in the team, he should have a bigger voice and it was great to see him come up with some big plays on both sides of the ball. I also thought he was desperately unlucky not to receive a penalty for that JWH ankle twist. That was incredibly blatant and the Roosters were very fortunate in that situation. I'm not going to lie, I am heart-broken with that performance because they deserved the win. Unfortunately when you're rebuilding as a team there's going to be games where you simply get out-classed and that's what happened tonight. The Roosters just had too many stars who stepped up when the game was on the line and that proved to be the difference between the two teams. If Brisbane can build off of that effort, they'll be in the mix again but that's the challenge. I thought Kevie's interchange was good for the most part. It definitely suited Turpin's game who outside of that wayward pass was one of the Broncos better players. I thought the Broncos noticeably missed him when he and Hetherington went off as the Roosters really started to make inroads in the middle. Paix has some things to like about his game, but he's going to have to improve defensively if he wants to be a starting 9. I've read a lot of criticism about Niu and while I was annoyed with his effort on Walker I thought he had some really good touches as well and made some nice in-roads on the Roosters. I'm not against giving him a stint in reserves but I still think he's got something to offer at 1. So yeah, I'll take more positives out of that performance than negatives. Onto next week against the Panthers, I hope the boys go in with the exact same attitude. [/QUOTE]

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