A tough win up in Townsville tonight. It was a struggle, but we got the points and that's all that mattered.
Tom Trbojevic 4/10 - Rocks and diamonds. It was his first game in 9 weeks after a major injury so he was bound to be tentative. Made 5 errors but also laid on tries for Siro and Jorge. Best thing is he came through with no further injury worries and will be better for the run. Worst thing is that its brought the dribblers out of the woodwork with their "Turbo should play centre" crap.
I Do Not Dribble
Jorge Taufua 6/10 - Tough night for Jorge. Scored a try and laid on a big hit, but was often caught out in defence, though I question if that was more because of Walker rushing up and in all the time rather than Jorge doing much wrong. But seriously.....for a winger he has to be one of the slowest in history doesn't he? Yes he does
Dylan Walker 3/10 - Dylan Dylan Dylan.....what's doing son? Constantly rushing up and in is killing our left edge defence and its leaving Jorge to either follow and leave an overlap, or stay out in no mans land. Ball in hand and he's a threat, but right now he's a defensive liability. and he still hasn't learnt how to pass backward ... blew another certain try
Moses Suli 7/10 - Suli was good in his return and he made a number of strong runs along with some crucial tackles. Yes he deserves his spot ... (while) his fitness is improving
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Reuben Garrick 5/10 - Didn't really see much of the ball other than kick returns, and with the Cows going to our left almost all of the time he wasn't called on to do much in the way of defence. Goal kicking remains a strong point. .... keeps his spot for his goal kicking ... Walker did him non favours
Cade Cust 7/10 - I thought Cade played well tonight and it was pleasing to see that he does actually have a good kicking game. A wonderful flat pass put Thommo over for a meat pie ...looking better and better and will probably keep Croker out if he continues to play at at least this level
Daly Cherry-Evans 8/10 - Gutsy effort to back up 3 days after Origin to play 80 minutes. His kicking game was on point tonight.....and it shows what we've been missing for the past 5 weeks. ... every team needs a great 1/2 ... we have one of the best
Addin Fonua-Blake 7/10 - Another strong game from AFB. ... Agree & slightly shaded by Marty this week
Api Koroisau 6/10 - Api played mostly well tonight. His passing was good, his defence was strong and his running from dummy half was good. Would have been a 7 but loses a point for the dumb play in the first half trying to push a pass that wasn't there. It brought the Cows back into the game. ... some of his defence up the middle was epic & probably robbed him of some attacking juice
Martin Taupau 8/10 - Led from the front tonight with 187 metres and 3 offloads. Was a constant threat whenever we were attacking their line. ... Marty at his near best ... go big boy
Joel Thompson 5/10 - Scored a good try, but was somewhat quiet tonight......Our back rowers were almost carbon copies of each other tonight. Scored a good try,
Curtis Sironen 5/10 - Our back rowers were almost carbon copies of each other tonight. Scored a good try, but was somewhat quiet tonight.
Jake Trbojevic 9/10 - What can you say? The Energizer Bunny has nothing on Jakey boy. Backs up from Origin, plays 80 minutes, runs for 128 metres and makes 45 tackles (and I dare say a lot of them were stopping Taumalolo). Awesome effort. .... best on field as per usual, wish he had a twin
Jack Gosiewski 3/10 - Not Jetski's best night. First half he got run over for the Cows first try. Second half, gets 10 in the bin with his obligatory brain snap. .... maybe tries too hard although that should be a positive ... a few more Kgs might stop him being run over
Manase Fainu 5/10 - Didn't get his usual amount of game time, but did nothing wrong when out there..... needs to concentrate on his service ... some wayward and hospital passes detracted tonight
Morgan Boyle 5/10 - Also saw limited time, but was OK. I know he's a big bloke, but he seems to move in slow motion. .... limited time, but improving with each outing, I think getting rid of the mo was a great directive from Des
Taniela Paseka 6/10 - I thought he was the best of the bench forwards tonight and he made some decent runs. Still needs more aggression in his game though. Lucky not to be binned for a professional foul in the first half. .... He is huge and fast for his size, but yes needs more agro maybe Des needs to get Terry Randall in to the change room to whack some killer into him and Lance
Right now, this is just about the best 17 we can put on the park. They weren't great tonight, but when you get the 2 points it doesn't seem to matter all that much. However, lets not gloat too much because a better team than the Cows probably would have beaten us tonight.
Des has got some kinks to work out, but if we can keep the same 17 for next weeks game I think we can beat St Merge finally and heading into the bye could be very handily placed.
JethroStar Trekkin' across the universe
