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Ofcourse I am gutted. But imagine how our players feel. How fine a line it is between a win and a loss. Three times I thought we were gone, and yet we were still in it with one minute to go. Four moments which could easily have been different, and if just one of them had gone our way we win that game.
1. The penalty against Jared for a minor brush to the kicker, something which would be play on 9 times out of 10, leads to Papali's try and Keary being off for 15 minutes. Different call we win.
2 Manu's no try. I believe he had every right to reach out to ground that ball. He did not promote his body, just stretched out, I have seen these given plenty of times, notably Allan Langer reaching over his head backwards o score in a SOO.
3 The high tackle on Morris while trying to score. How was that not a penalty to us?
4, Teddy missing that loose ball. I saw him get injured, looked like a groin strain in a tackle close to our line about 10 minutes before that. I thought he might have to go off but as the champion he is he played on. I am sure it limited his movement towards that ball, but he got a shocker of a bounce as well.
If only ONE of those decisions had gone our wat we win, so disappointing as a fan, but imagine how the players feel.
I am not here to bag players on their performance, they all make mistakes in the pressure of battle. they have to make decisions under extreme pressure and fatigue, and one wrong step can make a huge difference. If Toups had been outside Morris near the line wide open, we win.
Three teams we have played in the last 3 weeks have completed at over 90 percent, unreal. They have got every bounce and they have all played to their best.
In our two semis we have come back from 18 and 16 points down to take it to the wire.
Proud of our boys, gutted for them.
One missed conversion against Penrith, which he would kick 99 times out of a 100 and we wouldn't have even had to play last night. Such a game
WE lost the game, but we lost nothing as a club.
1. The penalty against Jared for a minor brush to the kicker, something which would be play on 9 times out of 10, leads to Papali's try and Keary being off for 15 minutes. Different call we win.
2 Manu's no try. I believe he had every right to reach out to ground that ball. He did not promote his body, just stretched out, I have seen these given plenty of times, notably Allan Langer reaching over his head backwards o score in a SOO.
3 The high tackle on Morris while trying to score. How was that not a penalty to us?
4, Teddy missing that loose ball. I saw him get injured, looked like a groin strain in a tackle close to our line about 10 minutes before that. I thought he might have to go off but as the champion he is he played on. I am sure it limited his movement towards that ball, but he got a shocker of a bounce as well.
If only ONE of those decisions had gone our wat we win, so disappointing as a fan, but imagine how the players feel.
I am not here to bag players on their performance, they all make mistakes in the pressure of battle. they have to make decisions under extreme pressure and fatigue, and one wrong step can make a huge difference. If Toups had been outside Morris near the line wide open, we win.
Three teams we have played in the last 3 weeks have completed at over 90 percent, unreal. They have got every bounce and they have all played to their best.
In our two semis we have come back from 18 and 16 points down to take it to the wire.
Proud of our boys, gutted for them.
One missed conversion against Penrith, which he would kick 99 times out of a 100 and we wouldn't have even had to play last night. Such a game
WE lost the game, but we lost nothing as a club.
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