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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3245441, member: 1899"] That was a brutal game of footy and it looks like Sydney have paid the price with JWH (shoulder) and Taukeiaho (ribs) picking up injuries. I thought they were pretty brave during the opening stanza. Melbourne were just trying to brute force their way over but time and time again Sydney kept turning them away. They clearly had a plan to work over Walker but Sydney did a good job of protecting their halfback and Walker was able to pick up a lot of scraps. However just like the Souths clash, Sydney just couldn't get in the game. Their starts are really starting to hurt them and they're just making too many crucial errors down their own end. Their completions to start the game would have been pretty poor and once the second half got underway the gaps started growing which brought the Melbourne playmakers into the game. The tries to Hughes, Grant and Papenhuyzen sum it all up, just all around the ruck where they used the forwards momentum to put the speedsters and playmakers over. It was a high quality game but Melbourne's ability to churn through their sets and the bonus of having Harry Grant come off the bench was the difference. It's interesting the Nathan Cleary story broke today and seeing Melbourne's response tonight. I would not be surprised at all if we hear more about the Cameron Munster and Harry Grant incidents. [/QUOTE]

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