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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2671168, member: 8215"] I feel better now. I mean, I hate losing, but it's the loss we needed to have. If we won after that woeful performance, complacency would set in and we'd lose to the Eels by 40. Instead, it wasn't enough to break the team's confidence or spirit, but says to us we need to do all the little things better, because if we were 2% better we'd have won. It's no surprise that Milford went backwards. Young, inexperienced, with so many shuffles in the backing in 80 minutes, he doesn't have a "default" setting to defer to. The set plays and combinations he's practised would only have been with one or two different players in each role. Ever. So play X he's only ever done with Kahu or Maranta at fullback. Nikorima is totally different, so he wouldn't be comfortable or remotely fluid with him. And to those who say he has no playmaking ability, clearly you didn't see how many tries he set up last year, not just scored. On the refs, there were dud calls for both teams. The mid-air tackles were BS, because every one should have been penalties to us for being run off the ball. The one we gave away on the 5th that led to them being camped on our line, well no one even touched the Dragon, it was just masterful milking that fooled the refs. However, Thaiday could easily have given one away for that sloppy play-the-ball (instead of it going our way) because he does them all the time. And the one where the Dragons lose it, we pick it up, get tackled, and lose it playing it, well that shouldn't be "no advantage, go back to first error". If it was called no advantage when tackled then fine, but to call it back because they fucked the PTB is incredibly lucky and if the opposition got that call then I'd be filthy. And for the commentators, I have no problem. It's an underdog thing. Last week they were praising us for everything, this week we were expected to win so when the Dragons outplayed us it was great theatre. [/QUOTE]

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