Silver Lining

[Kalvin]

It'll be good to see Keppie and Paseka back.

Any idea when keppie is back from quarantine? I thought paseka was aiming for round 25

 

[Dan]

Different ref, different game

 

[The better Robbo]

Just needed to hold it after the funa break or the dce run from the kickoff after that, and we would have hit 30 I reckon. Two chancy 1st tackle plays that didn’t come off. But yeah proud of the rest of that 2nd half. Tough stuff.

And then Schuster holding down the player for 45 seconds and giving them a shot at field goal. Those 3 mistakes could have been extremely costly!

 

[Budgie]

I’m actually glad that we won a game with such a flat performance. Beating the Eels who were down and out with touch footy was great but it’s not championship quality stuff.

to turn up flat and play a desperate Raiders who had all the momentum and play that scrappy style that we hate, was truly memorable. I’m ecstatic after that win. We lose that game every other day of the week.

we learned to win ugly tonight..to roll the sleeves up and win off the back of desire and rugged defence...to play with patience and not try to chase points through stupid shifts...

that’s one of our best wins of the year IMO.

My God, it was like watching paint dry, oil based paint.

 

[QueefRichards]

I enjoyed Taupaus run and pass at the line to put Funa away

Too bad Garrick punted it dead

Really summed up our night

 

[The Who]

Agreed, Siro is not 100%

Why do you say that? He looked good to me and he did score a rare try.

 

[Technical Coach]

I’m actually glad that we won a game with such a flat performance. Beating the Eels who were down and out with touch footy was great but it’s not championship quality stuff.

to turn up flat and play a desperate Raiders who had all the momentum and play that scrappy style that we hate, was truly memorable. I’m ecstatic after that win. We lose that game every other day of the week.

we learned to win ugly tonight..to roll the sleeves up and win off the back of desire and rugged defence...to play with patience and not try to chase points through stupid shifts...

that’s one of our best wins of the year IMO.

It's only a good performance if we learn from the game, problem is we don't.
Same pattern of lacking punch through the middle to generate go foward without Tom, or lacking Tom's number counting and speed out wide to generate consistent quality lateral play to move the defence around.

Tense again in attack lacking full on belief in the early stages and it impacts our entire go forward and lateral play, we get into a grind when the points don't come easily and start making mistakes.

Once the points arrive like they did in the second half the self belief starts to come back, defence lifts and less one out play----still not great but enough to get out of the grind and being mistake riddled.

 

[StuBoot]

We.made it hard for ourselves with a hooker, utility, second rower and only 1 prop on the bench.

What, as opposed to their average 5/8, underdone fullback, Lui and a prop on the bench?

 

[Deleted member 26876]

Each to their own. All that game showed me was that we are no hope of winning this thing without Tommy. We seem clueless in attack without his presence. Happy to take the win as it keeps top 4 dream alive, but let's hope that jaw of Turbo is OK otherwise we are just making up numbers come finals time

Yeah, although I think that’s quite an easy conclusion to come to (same with probably all sides if you took out their most dominant player).

But I thought tonight showed we are a better team without him than we think they are. Raiders played the same against the storm last week and were close to winning. Weren’t too much different today yet without trbo we were able to grind them down. Had flashes of being that destructive team we know.

Now we know without trbo we can score 50+ (cowboys win) and that we can grind down desperate teams (raiders).

 

[mickqld]

At the start of the year not many manly supporters would has predicted us to be on the fringe of the top four!

this team has come a long way!

just sayin’

^This.
If anyone said at the end of rd 4 that we'd be here by rd23 they'd have got out the straight jacket. It's been a phenomenal turn around and it ain't finished yet. In fact, the best part is to come.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

What happened to Sipley? Did he get injured?

Maybe punishment for losing the ball early on!

 

[malroon]

I enjoyed Taupaus run and pass at the line to put Funa away

Too bad Garrick punted it dead

Really summed up our night

Garrick wanted him to kick across field, not up field..

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

A silver lining to Parker's sore head was that we got to see Suli run over the top of a few people. I'd love to see if he can back it up again next week.

 

[Remy]

Spot on, we needed it. Knights and first raiders game showed us struggle when backs against the wall, and nothing going our way. Fact we had such a poor performance and had some really bad calls against us and still managed to win. Very stoked and very relieving. Feels better than pumping teams like dogs, sharks etc.

 

[robbiea]

The win without Turbo was a character/confidence builder .

 

[mave]

Too many errors in the first half trying to play footy without Tommy, but it was very pleasing see the shift the in gameplan in the 2nd half, and grind our way to a tough win.

I haven't checked the stats, but it felt like an almost error free in the 2nd 40 as well playing a grinding style.

Well coached imo to pivot at halftime.

 

[MadMarcus]

It was great to get a win without our best player. Suli did a pretty good job filling in for him.

 

[manlyfan76]

Why do you say that? He looked good to me and he did score a rare try.

He hobbles when walking and when he came off he went straight up the tunnel and didn't look good, lots of anguish in his face.

 

[manlyfan76]

What, as opposed to their average 5/8, underdone fullback, Lui and a prop on the bench?

But their 1-13 are huge and play up tempo bash through style. We were a big body short on my opinion.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Better to win by a point than lose by a point.

I am sure the Spleen Machine and their supporters would agree.