Watmough's and Bell's defence wasn't up to NRL standard today. Add a couple of "Matai of old" poorly timed rushes out of the line and there you have our diabolical first half. If it wasn't for Brett Stewart cleaning up at the back we could have been down by more at half time. The second half was a bit better defensively, as most of their tries came from kicks, but we lacked intensity and made basic errors and gave away stupid penalties.
Really, really, disappointing...thought we had turned the corner after last weeks effort. We won't get within  a bulls roar of a premeirship with pathetic efforts like that. It's a shame when you have 9 or 10 guys really applying themselves, only to be let down by 3 or 4 useless performances. Obviously didn't want the minor premiership enough to knuckle down today. If we play like that over the next 2 weeks we will struggle to finish 4th, as the Tigers and Panthers will lap us as well.
One thing I was blowing up about today was Matai's sin bin. When was the last time someone was sin binned for a professional foul, let alone one as lame as that ? Absolute rubbish decision. Souths tackled one of our players early when a try was on, did the gutless gimp sin bin them ?? Certainly more of a professional foul then what Matai did. Didn't cost us the game by any means, but it just pi$$es me off that the referees are so farking useless and they like to penalise players they perceive have some "form".
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