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Big McLean was great today. Easily his best game and rewarded with a try.

Our forwards were completely dominated in the first half. We need to come out stronger than that, particularly against teams like Manly and Easts.

Matty is usually pretty fair, particularly when discussing Melbourne IMO.

Matty Johns disagreed with Sterlo and co on Sterlo Thursday night. He was of the opinion that Melbourne's unusually high error count let Souths off the hook. I thought that was pretty obvious tbh but nearly all of the other channel 9 and Fox lackies couldn't stop verbally felating the Bunnies after ...

Tipping Melbourne 24 - Knights 16 in a close one.

Although another 64 point win would be just lovely, I don't see it. The Knights have started to find some consistency. They lost to the Roosters in Rd 20 but aside from that, they haven't lost since Rd 14 when we beat them... by 2 points... at home.

Yep. I would expect Blair back in, O'Neill to the wing and Mahe to drop out.

Another great story coming out of this situation... http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/legends-say-bring-back-the-biff-in-the-wake-of-the-squirrel-grip-controversy/story-fniabjcr-1226695788794 My favourite part is the quote from George Piggins, "you are pushed into a situation where you ar...

So according to some news sources, Burgess received such a low grading because he "pinched" Chambers nuts which is (apparently) better than getting a handful... Great explanation ::) http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/gripping-yarn-sam-ban-would-be-a-spoke-in-souths-wheels-2013...

LESStar58 wrote:Too lenient. 6 weeks at a minimum.

Absolutely. It would have been a single week if he didn't have a dodgy record.

Two weeks is ridiculous. How is this any better than biting and eye gouging?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/south-sydney-rabbitohs-forward-sam-burgess-under-scrutiny-for-alleged-squirrel-grip/story-fni3gki8-1226695418538 Not sure how this one has escaped scrutiny until now. The replay is pretty clear, Chambers was not in any pain until Sam reached up and under.....

To be honest, this is the performance I expected last week. The Origin guys have really only been back at training for 2 weeks. We will most likely continue to be a bit sloppy for a couple more weeks. We don't want to be peaking now... Just slowly build, work on completions/combinations and be ready...

Fonua was unlucky with the dropped ball call at the end of the half. He was on his feet for a long time and had Souths hands all over his arms as he tried to play it. Penalty.

Geez, some horsesh*t decisions going Souths way... We lead 14 - 6 at the halftime break.

Personally, I think Tohu will fill in on the right with Chambers shifting to the right. Big game for a debutant if it happens.

Either way, totally pumped for this one. Hopefully there is a massive, loud crowd.

Congrats to Finch on 50 games for the Storm. The first player in history to play 50+ games for 4 different clubs. Melbourne usually make a big deal about milestones and do their best to make sure the milestone is in a winning game. We don't need any more motivation but a milestone game always helps....

I agree, I'd prefer another big bloke instead of Griffin. That's nothing against Griffin, more to do with how good we have been with the extra big guy on the bench. And lining up like we did last week after Blair went down is not such a bad idea either. The Canberra game was even until that point. T...