Well, I thought we would lose today, but thought we would offer a bit more than that. The only way I could see a try coming was through a flukey kick or Williams being close enough to steamroll somebody. Only had 1 real chance in the 2nd half and unfortunately Choc put down a tough pass, which was a shame especially when Ballin knocked on a couple of minutes later, because I thought those 2 were our better players
Brisbane were a far better side, no doubting that. Had some great bits of luck too, that kick into the ref and also when Choc got done for a strip, was more a drop than anything. Can't remember any more than 1 penalty coming our way, certainly none in the last 60mins. Luckily for us Folau is a greedy bastard and murdered 2 tries from dummy half
All in all, our young backline can hold their heads up I think. Hopoate really impressed me, I didn't think he would have the ability to scoot from dummy half and keep pumping the legs but he did it every time. Farrar was very good in tough conditions today. Whare made some nice tackles and Williams some nice runs. Foran tried hard in the 1st half but went missing a bit in the 2nd, while Hodko was pretty much anonymous all day
Forwards, extremely disappointing. Watmough, Rodney, Kite and King all tried hard but outside of them there wasn't much there, Stewarts form of late is a concern to me, he needs far more involvement. Ballin played well, made some good tackles
We will lose next week on the Goldie as well so a tough couple of weeks for some of the young fella's
If I was Hasler, I would be running off copies of that game onto DVD and giving them to all of the halves in the club and tell them to study what Lockyer did, he was outstanding today and destroyed us with his clever play, hardly put a foot wrong
Brisbane were a far better side, no doubting that. Had some great bits of luck too, that kick into the ref and also when Choc got done for a strip, was more a drop than anything. Can't remember any more than 1 penalty coming our way, certainly none in the last 60mins. Luckily for us Folau is a greedy bastard and murdered 2 tries from dummy half
All in all, our young backline can hold their heads up I think. Hopoate really impressed me, I didn't think he would have the ability to scoot from dummy half and keep pumping the legs but he did it every time. Farrar was very good in tough conditions today. Whare made some nice tackles and Williams some nice runs. Foran tried hard in the 1st half but went missing a bit in the 2nd, while Hodko was pretty much anonymous all day
Forwards, extremely disappointing. Watmough, Rodney, Kite and King all tried hard but outside of them there wasn't much there, Stewarts form of late is a concern to me, he needs far more involvement. Ballin played well, made some good tackles
We will lose next week on the Goldie as well so a tough couple of weeks for some of the young fella's
If I was Hasler, I would be running off copies of that game onto DVD and giving them to all of the halves in the club and tell them to study what Lockyer did, he was outstanding today and destroyed us with his clever play, hardly put a foot wrong