Round 14 Cowboys v Storm Sun 4 June

[Lennart Bedrager]

Fmd, 50 could be on the cards the way this is going.... what the hell is going on, absolutely no resolve or heart in defence.

[glennb]

Please tell me how the cowboys can play like rabble most weeks, but when they play us they look like grand finalist. Also, have come Queenslander can play great in the marron's jersey but they put the purple one on and they play like crap.

This is not the team I am a member off. There is no pride in the club or care of the members.

[Storm Spirit]

Usually I say take the L and move on. But this is really poor.

[Papenhuyzen23]

Absolutely pathetic.

[Lennart Bedrager]

Worst defensive effort in 9 years allegedly... beggars belief.

[Storm Spirit]

Teams always play their GF against us. But that’s no excuse. Storm have been embarrassed. And watch the Cows barely win a match for the rest of the year.

[Utha]

I'm at peace with missing the eight, because we don't deserve to make it with the dross we're serving up every week.

[Scooter]

That is how bad we are going, Townsend shows ultimate disrespect by kicking a field goal.

[blazza18]

He’s not the issues but he’s part of the issue. Nelson having one really good performance this season isn’t good enough. He’s not a guy we can rely on to put the rest of the forward pack on his back but we kinda need him to be better than one good performance every now and then.

[TC]

That was dire.

The cowboys were good but not great, and we've beaten teams this year that played better.
Attack - careless. Too many mistakes and dreadful decision making. At times pedestrian and at others panicked. No real direction from the halves.
Defence was lazy. I don't think I've seen a less co-ordinated effort from Storm in 10 years. 50+ missed tackles (and that doesn't count the times that we missed completely), players out of position, players charging out of the line.

Not going to name players, but there are 4 or 5 including a couple of big names that deserve to play reggies next week after their lack of effort.

[TC]

That is how bad we are going, Townsend shows ultimate disrespect by kicking a field goal.

Glad he did. There was plenty of space on the edges, if he swung it wide they could easily have gone over again.

[Storm_M_36]

We are better off not having byes, because the players don't bother turning up the following week. It's that simple and don't expect us to make the finals and if we do then we'll just be making up the numbers based on today's crap we dished up!

[riders of the storm]

I mean - it probably could’ve been a lot worse?

I still maintain the team plays way too loose - often look for cheap off-loads and to go expansive off very little front-foot ball.

The pack this year has been awful. They don’t seem to have the same intensity in contact in both attack and defence as previous years. I’d put that down to a fair few new faces being there.

Honestly, if the Storm needed to concede 50 to tell everyone they couldn’t win the Grand Final then people clearly haven’t watched them this year.

[Lennart Bedrager]

Definitely a crap performance, but writing the season off in its entirety based on one results probably a bit premature.

Some hard questions will need to be asked, but there's plenty of room for improvement. I will say, a comprehensive loss like this, as much as it sucks, is probably better than a tight one... there's no room to hide.

It's been a strange old season thus far for all teams, with some very surprising results throughout it , this one included.

[Bullucked]

The good thing is no one will be dropped after this

Can't drop a whole team?

Eli Katoa is about the only one who really put in the whole game