Here we go!!!
Aaaaand it’s over. Well played nsw. Found a glaring weakness in our right edge defence and exploited it to perfection.
Freddy needs to go. Why would you pick gutho if you’re not going to play him
Ah for fucks sake. He took him away from Parra for a week to play him 2 mins. I knew he was going to get the Hynes treatment
Ch 9 reckoned he came on because of Addo-Carr doing a hammy.
The smell of BS almost gave me Category 1 symptoms.
Sorry only just thought to check here for a match thread. Good game for NSW, we bloody needed one! Great game from Crighton, To’o and Best, Teddy with a nice break to set up a try, and JAC (Bulldogs Legend) having a solid game with a beautiful chip and chase try
QLD players should try out for NFL with the quality of their forward passes 😆
Valentine Holmes was wonderful in the first two games, but an absolute waste in the third game.
I hope he doesn’t play next year.
I think he needs to be there, he can be so amazing - but god damn his defence can be abysmal. It’s funny because his covering defence is elite tier, almost best in the comp. The number of times he makes a last ditch tackle or cleans up a kick that was almost certain to be a try is insane, but when he’s set and in the defensive line he can be a turnstyle.
He made 33 tackles over the series which basically makes him the worst defender of the entire team (excluding interchange players and Taulagi who somehow got away with almost zero tackles - presumably the blues just never ran at him).
My boy Ruben managed 120 tackles. Wow.
Really damning though Holmes had 14 missed tackles. He somehow managed the least completed tackles and the most missed tackles. Ruben missed 6 tackles.
We lost Game 3 on defence, and he was the worst defender. I stand my hope that he doesn’t come back next year.
