SOO, Jake, DCE, general discussion

[wombatgc]

You saw tonight the way to beat the Riff, early kicking and chasing. Their guys are used to have all the field position. Under pressure tonight in their own half so many errors from their key players.

I couldn’t believe the unforced errors they made. You‘re right. The blueprint on how to beat the Panthers was on show.

 

[Eagle 1]

Hats off to Qld, last 20 min Blues couldn't get out of there own half. Score board pressure plays it's part in the end, to many costly mistakes/errors on our 20m line sealed the win for them.

 

[DieHardManlyFan]

Why can't DCE play like that for us

The way he plays for QLD just beggars my mind never plays like that for us.

Surrounded by upper echelon players. With all due respect looking up and seeing Harper is a little different ink.

 

[Chip and Chase]

Pains me to admit it but Queensland deserved that win. They showed NSW the definition of Origin footy tonight. Too many errors from NSW and too much willingness to turn up for each other from QLD.

 

[Jay Eagle]

Actually, Manly need that game manager. Any chance he may turn up for us week in week out?

Tell the Manly forwards to roll up their sleeve like the Qlders did and DCE is then also able to play on the front foot.. with forwards doing their job DCE is in the top 2 or 3 halves in the game.. he has a great long and short kicking game, good hands and puts his body into defence.. and for all those numpties bagging his game management or clutch moments you either have short memories or no brains, DCE has won more matches than he's lost for us and if the forwards do their job he excells...

 

[StuBoot]

The turning point was Tupou giving up the ball just before half time. NSW after that were on the backfoot for the rest of the game.

NSW again crumbled into self destruction with some catastrophic errors in their own half with the ball and it was a matter of time after that.

The better team won clearly. Probably DCEs finest match for Queensland and NSW could not live with Ponga all night, he was lethal and we better watch him on Saturday or we face a similar problem
Another failure when it mattered for NSW up there. I think overall without Tommy and Latrell it limited the team tonight.

Glad its over

Agree.
None of our back five looked threatening, Teddy tried hard but no one else took up the slack.
Plenty went missing tonight when it mattered.
Qld (especially Tino) went after Burton tonight, was unsighted after the Double sin bin but looked the most likely prior to that.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Qld deserved the win, Ponga was fantastic, DCE was tremendous and it was a pretty amazing game from both sides. Qld started the 2nd half fast and sharp (and started a fight) and never looked back.
As for Fittler - I can only hope the Dogs have signed him as coach.

 

[davohan123]

Surrounded by upper echelon players. With all due respect looking up and seeing Harper is a little different ink.

Still tonight showed DCE can control a game. He was the difference with hunt in the second half.

Cleary was a ghost out there tonight he played poorly tonight.

 

[winnyason]

How could we get Tino to manly ?

 

[HK_Eagle]

Tell the Manly forwards to roll up their sleeve like the Qlders did a d DCE is then also able to play on the front foot.. with forwards doing their job DCE is in the top 2 or 3 halves in the game.. he has a great long and short kicking game, good hands and puts his body into defence.. and for all those numpties bagging his game management or clutch moments you either have short memories or no brains, DCE has won more matches than he's lost for us and if the forwards do their job he excells.

I saw it differently. I didn’t see a dominant forward pack either way. Perhaps NSW were on top for long periods in the first half, but even in the second, it certainly wasn’t a dominant QLD pack. It was more dumb NSW decisions giving away field position and possession.

 

[davohan123]

And one last thing

That's why I love the game of rugby league that was back to a classic 80's 90's game.

Even though the blues lost that was one of the more enjoyable games I have watched in a very long time.

You always knew QLD was going to be a different beast up at Suncorp, they just wanted it more than NSW.

 

[Killer03]

One thing that QLD did very well again tonight, like in game 1 was kick pressure. I don't know why Manly and actually a lot of teams at club level don't attack the kicker with pressure.

It really limited Cleary's kicking game and cut down his options

100%

 

[XV-1]

How could we get Tino to manly ?

We already have a potentially better version. Haumole.
He just needs to get more aggressive, take longer run ups and do the 1 percenters in defence.

 

[Disco]

They battered Burton out of the game from the start. It was a clear strategy and paid dividends. Burton had one decent kick the whole game. Out-coached.

Side note though....how big was that bomb.....absurd

 

[wombatgc]

They battered Burton out of the game from the start. It was a clear strategy and paid dividends. Burton had one decent kick the whole game. Out-coached.

Yep. And literally battered him. I’m still fuucking throthing about that fkn cat Tinos third man in headlock…..he should've been binned first.

 

[Jay Eagle]

I saw it differently. I didn’t see a dominant forward pack either way. Perhaps NSW were on top for long periods in the first half, but even in the second, it certainly wasn’t a dominant QLD pack. It was more dumb NSW decisions giving away field position and possession.

Your having a laugh now.. Qld forwards layed the platform..simple
NSW forwards did well in the first 30 and it reflected second half all Qld and it all starts with the forwards

 

[Eagle 1]

Qld deserved the win, Ponga was fantastic, DCE was tremendous and it was a pretty amazing game from both sides. Qld started the 2nd half fast and sharp (and started a fight) and never looked back.
As for Fittler - I can only hope the Dogs have signed him as coach.

How Wally didn't give Ponga the medal is beyond a joke, even Carrigan looked embarrassed and had to be shoved onto stage, and said Ponga or Teddy should of got it...baffling !!

 

[Chip and Chase]

How Wally didn't give Ponga the medal is beyond a joke, even Carrigan looked embarrassed and had to be shoved onto stage, and said Ponga or Teddy should of got it...baffling !!

Wally Lewis medal is for player of the series. Ponga had a blinder tonight and got MOM, but you wouldn't say he did a lot in games 1 and 2. I thought Carrigan was solid in all 3 games and made an impact, maybe if Munster plays tonight he gets it. Teddy was probably NSW best all series

 

[HK_Eagle]

Yep. And literally battered him. I’m still fuucking throthing about that fkn cat Tinos third man in headlock…..he should've been binned first.

Just another example of NSW being out-coached by QLD. It was like NSW never imagined QLD would do that after the last game. How ridiculously unprofessional and unprepared.

 

[Chip and Chase]

Side note though....how big was that bomb.....absurd

And why they didn't try that in last 10 minutes instead of Cleary's efforts is beyond me. It's like he is limited to one kick per game for some reason. Dumb