The scores don't suggest it but that Souths Warriors game was fantastic.After watching basically rubbish for the entire weekend with the usual 4 hitups, sweeping second man and a kick to the corner to see a contest like that was a breath of fresh air.Also what a crowd.We should look at Perth instead of Gosford like this year.
The warriors deserved better with a couple of flukey tries from the bunnies but as much as I hate to say it they showed why they are clearly the top side.Outside the top 3 the warriors(if they make it) seem about the only side who might lay down some sort of rough challenge.
When the top 3 get on top they just smother sides out of it(eg storm and roosters this week) but the Warriors with Hurrell,Vatuvai,Mateo,Johnson etc have the X factor that could possibly chase down a lead. Historically they also have great records against the Bunnies and Storm and more than matched the roosters a couple of weeks ago.Their problem is they will most likely finish 5-8.
Penrith can rack also some points but they are a couple of years away.All the other sides outside the Warriors have been winning one week,losing the next and it is a long time since there has been such a clear gap from 3rd to 4th both in premiership points and standard of play.
One last point which I think was mentioned by Kiwi in another thread.Now these idiot refs look like they are extrapolating that held rule to cases where bloke are clearly tackled in tryscoring raids and throwing an illegal pass because they may get it back as per Goodwin yesterday.The rule is clearly designed for simultaneous pass/held situations ,not tryscoring raids with blokes just taking the odds to it knowing they may get it back..An illegal pass is an illegal pass ffs.
Another example of the total lack of common sense these blokes.This will end up like the obstruction rule- a mess that was totally unnecessary.
The warriors deserved better with a couple of flukey tries from the bunnies but as much as I hate to say it they showed why they are clearly the top side.Outside the top 3 the warriors(if they make it) seem about the only side who might lay down some sort of rough challenge.
When the top 3 get on top they just smother sides out of it(eg storm and roosters this week) but the Warriors with Hurrell,Vatuvai,Mateo,Johnson etc have the X factor that could possibly chase down a lead. Historically they also have great records against the Bunnies and Storm and more than matched the roosters a couple of weeks ago.Their problem is they will most likely finish 5-8.
Penrith can rack also some points but they are a couple of years away.All the other sides outside the Warriors have been winning one week,losing the next and it is a long time since there has been such a clear gap from 3rd to 4th both in premiership points and standard of play.
One last point which I think was mentioned by Kiwi in another thread.Now these idiot refs look like they are extrapolating that held rule to cases where bloke are clearly tackled in tryscoring raids and throwing an illegal pass because they may get it back as per Goodwin yesterday.The rule is clearly designed for simultaneous pass/held situations ,not tryscoring raids with blokes just taking the odds to it knowing they may get it back..An illegal pass is an illegal pass ffs.
Another example of the total lack of common sense these blokes.This will end up like the obstruction rule- a mess that was totally unnecessary.