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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2577358, member: 8215"] I don't know why everyone's so doom & gloom. Sure, we lost, against PARRA for ***** sake, but put it in perspective. The refs well & truly fucked us over. I'm not blaming the loss on them, but it sure didn't help. To the Broncos credit, they didn't pack it in like they would have last year, and despite them being clearly frustrated they continued to roll up their sleeves and for all intents & purposes had a genuine shot at winning until the 75th minute. They used the bullshit ref calls as motivation instead of going all brain-fart and conceding 4 tries in the last 15 minutes like they would have in the past. Where they lost the game was a game plan that was perfect against our structure. And that was to have their toughnut back-rowers single out a defender every run and just push. It seems like they cottoned on to a tendency of ours to have one defender grab up high and once contact is made put extra defenders in from the side. Their plan was to run with elbows up and give no clear shot (that would injure our defenders), meaning the momentum was all the runners, and because you can't take their feet out now it's bloody hard to stop them. Then, once we'd adapted and had the extra defenders ready & in earlier, they'd pass the ball just before the line, or even more impressively, on impact, leaving our numbers short. It's a fantastic ploy with the new rules, and is their primary cause for the making excellent metres and putting defence on the back foot. Barba was poor, I can't remember a player getting pushed back so badly so often since we had Gagai on the wing. Thank God for Vidot, his kick returns are just amazing. Reed unfortunately needs to go. On his own performances, he wasn't horrible, he did some excellent cover defence and never gave up. But the mistakes are compounding. And then there's the other factor. Copley is not half the player on the wing as he is in the centres. Add those two together and Copley has to be our #3 next week. I would LOVE Vidot outside Hodges, and the logical spot for Hoffman is on the left wing, but I can't trust a rookie, especially a speed-bump one, in the #6. We need Karmichael. Now. Nothing to be too concerned about though unless we have a shocker against the Titans. [/QUOTE]

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