Look I think playing storm in Melbourne with the injury toll we have including rookie halves and a 4th string hooker, losing our best try scorer and probably most rounded player in Morris at the kick off, then losing our two most experienced props to injury, not having any luck in general and with referee decisions include a sin bin - I think our team did pretty well to keep that game to what it was and to hang on as long as they did.
I think most other teams, including the other ‘top’ teams would have been destroyed in the same situation and we did well to keep them to the score we did and finally got on the scoreboard.
In saying that was I frustrated with us? Yes. Do players and the team as a whole need to do much better in these situations? Yes - especially as we’ll need to continue playing in adversity and no one wants them to just get smashed every week
But they did make me proud - especially in that first half and then ran out of gas and panicked. Not great but just about all they could do in the circumstances, perhaps they could have done slightly better in reality but we needed more luck then we got with everything against us and who we had.
They need to go out now and re-group and make the best of what we have. Let’s go out and beat who we can with half a squad as we may not win the comp but it shows what sort of strong and proud club we have built
I think most other teams, including the other ‘top’ teams would have been destroyed in the same situation and we did well to keep them to the score we did and finally got on the scoreboard.
In saying that was I frustrated with us? Yes. Do players and the team as a whole need to do much better in these situations? Yes - especially as we’ll need to continue playing in adversity and no one wants them to just get smashed every week
But they did make me proud - especially in that first half and then ran out of gas and panicked. Not great but just about all they could do in the circumstances, perhaps they could have done slightly better in reality but we needed more luck then we got with everything against us and who we had.
They need to go out now and re-group and make the best of what we have. Let’s go out and beat who we can with half a squad as we may not win the comp but it shows what sort of strong and proud club we have built
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