Any word on N Cleary’s hamstring? Is this anticipated to be a conservative return or is there an element of rushing?
Worst thing to come of SOO, other than the QLD loss was Edwards’ injury. Hopefully he’s back and firing for the finals. I honestly think he’s on par with Cleary as the most important in the team. (Cleary offensively and Edwards defensively)
Has Luron Patea stepped up over Mavrik Geyer in the pecking order?
Jack Cole must be injured? NSW Cup looks very makeshift in the halves.
To my understanding he was good to go a few weeks ago, but they opted to return him after the Origin period was over. I think there were sure to avoid another hamstring setback like last time.
Good to get the win, but gee we have some things to work on, especially our right side defence. I know I’m not the only one sick of seeing Tago run out of the line, leaving his outside man isolated
That (oddly) sounds positive then. I thought the Fox coverage had initially reported it at a suspected dislocated shoulder which I assumed would be his season. Even still, 6 weeks is virtually the rest of the regular season.
I thought the game itself went well for us. Yes we had a few uncharacteristic issues, poor dummy half passes, players running in the way of the attack, Eisenhuth trying to be Yeo (i get we want a ball playing forward but geez he was poo at that) with a great back up run after Laurie to set up the field goal, some dodgy ref calls…but IMO it bodes well for the run to the finals, plenty to work on with our big 5 to come back in.
I am very happy we got the win, but more excited about how much improvement we have in us !
When I saw him come off live at the ground I thought the same. he had his fore arm wrapped up and the trainer was supporting his arm. I thought that the likelihood was a nasty shoulder dislocation.
But it turned out he was supporting his forearm cause of a fracture, from what I heard it’s moist likely a clean fracture… if so the return time is generally 5-6 weeks.
Once again we faced a team who had come to play, which is par for the course when you are "The Hunted’. The dolphins are a pretty good team & were virtually perfect thru the first half & are likely to play finals footy. It was a tough game to win.
We made a few errors & a couple of one-on-one tackles were missed & we missed a couple of good chances to score ourselves. So we were on the wrong side of the scoreboard. The BS penalty for contact on the kicker could have been the end for us us it made the lead to be 3 scores for us to win. The tackle was not late, not high & did not put the kicker in a dangerous position.
We have heard it many times now, about how the team sticks to ‘the system’ which they did and pulled of another victory. When will the QLD teams learn that leading us midway thru 2nd half, requiring 3 scores to win, is us having them just where we want them
We evened the game up and then the iceman prevailed & the good guys got the two points in extra time.
Looking at the match statistics today, and if you judged the game on the stats alone you would have said the Dolphins should have won comfortably.
The amount of errors, missed tackles and incomplete sets on top of all of the origin reps rested, you would think that Penrith were destined to take the “L” this week.
One problem though… the Dolphins lead by 14 and felt like they had “done enough” and started to defend the lead. I think Penrith had picked up on that and sensed blood in the water.
On another note, what was Jamayne Isaako thinking?!?!
Hardly any time left on the clock, right out front of the sticks, just far away for the defence to not reach you to take a field goal and then decides to kick across the field to a player who was covered easily.
If he took the field goal, they were pretty much over the line and would have walked away winners.
One of the biggest brain farts I have seen some time. The last one would have been Greg Inglis’ 1 point field goal on the hooter when down by 2.
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