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Bench is a bit light for my liking but can understand the tactic with Grant coming in a bit later in the game.

Mattpoet wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:26 am Does anyone have a reason why Hunt wasn't sun binned at the end there? Seemed like the most professional foul that's ever been fouled professionally to me.

I’d dare say because the game was over and result was pretty much beyond doubt - not that that’s an excuse?

blazza18 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:57 pm God this team can be annoying

They’re absolutely infuriating.

Looks like Hughes will be playing. Only two players in the reserves remaining are Smith and MacDonald.

He’s playing. They just published the wrong team sheet on socials. It’s been updated now.

I feel for Wishart, he's not a winger. I don't know why Young didn't move to the wing where he has experience playing and let Wishart move in one which would be closer to his preferred halves position. He plays with a lot of heart. He’s tough as nails but he’s clearly not a back. I think he might b...

Just saw a clip of the Luai shoulder charge on Asofa-Solomona. That’s an absolute shocker. Here it is for anyone who hasn’t seen it: https://twitter.com/mrchrisnico/status/1687425044266520576?s=46&t=zDYV3fxGbEv2O0jTqMQ3ag Given what we’ve seen in the last 48 hours he is very, very lucky he wasn’...

That period just before half-time with that weird Welch off-load and the two King penalties were really costly. Outside of that - losing Jennings midway through the first-half, not having Hughes and Coates, and having to do that much defence I’ll take that loss. The second-half was an improvement as...

Welch loves a poorly timed offload doesn’t he?

That was awful.

The backline badly lacks any penetration - ditto the forward pack.

It might be a weird thing to say but I think the team badly needs Katoa back to move NAS back to the middle or the bench. Forward rotation is a bit off.

That was a real load of horses***.

Utterly trash. Sims should never play for the Storm again.

Too many rushed passes. Bad defence. Really annoyed.

Thirty-four missed tackles.

Mattpoet wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 9:27 pm MacDonald always lands on his front for the quick play the ball, you watch him, he's fantastic

He’s a total monster. He has to be in the 17 every week.

That was atrocious. Forty-nine missed tackles.

Really annoyed with some of the efforts cleaning up kicks too.

The kicking game is going to need to be a tonne better. The Panthers have this ability to really force teams to work out of their own end meaning when they receive from kicks they’re in prime field position. The good news is with the roof closed it’ll allow the Storm to play an expansive running game.