Round 24 - Knights vs Storm

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Pretty poor first half. Started to play a bit better towards the end tho
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Sigh this could've been a great game but storm just try and make everything so difficult
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Young guys have looked the most like they want it, some senior guys not involved at all.
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McLean was a ghost out there when we needed some tough runs. Chambers has been average.

Smith strong once again.
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Our left edge defense seems very shaky. Until the end of the first half we didn't want to run hard and straight. Too much looking to offload and ballplay.
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yourhero wrote:Smith strong once again.
Not so great in the second half so far.
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Croft has been excellent.
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BIG NELSON!!! Thinks he is an outside back with that run!
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yourhero wrote:Happy with that. Storm by 16.
Double that. Final result, Storm by 32 points.

When you consider that we weren't that clinical, it is a great result.
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Munster was awful, worst game in storm colours. Was happy with Croft, Bromwich boys and Finucane. Congratulations on the Minor Premiership boys, big accomplishment.
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Sure, there were some players very much down today, but gee we have an abundance of talent.

It is easy to see how we are loathed by opposition supporters. We have probably twice as good a player roster as the next best team.
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Good to come away with the W. Much bigger things ahead.
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Played ordinary, still managed to put up 44 points. Croft was great, three tries and two try assists, can't ask for much more. NAS had some strong runs, Curtis Scott had some great runs too. Vunivalu needs to learn to cut back under Chambers, couple of missed opportunities. Need to improve next week against the bunnies
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Very successful game. 44-12. Excellent.

Another minor premiership. Home final week one.

Brodie Croft. Fabulous. The future looks fine.

Great to see Tohu back. Bill bounced back after a slightly off game last week.


Munster was indeed off today, but that is ok - he has missed a couple of games, and he will be fine.

I find it intriguing that Craig again picked Slade. That gave us only one front rower on the bench. It did allow the luxury of Cam Smith coming off 10 minutes early. However I was very surprised he did not give Myles a run instead. It will be interesting to see what Craig does going forward . In my opinion our best 17 is today's team, with Cronk in for Croft, and Glasby in for Griffin ( thus Glasby, Nelson, Kenny and Tohu on the bench).Maybe Craig has other ideas.
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Anyone know the deal with finucane taking that last shot at goal. I know smith was off but they had backups like munster and harris on at the end to take it.
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