I think the issue most people seem to be ignoring to throw shade at whoever they want to blame, is that when your forwards gets dominated, the other side knows they can start bullying all over the park with no repercussions. There’s no big prop that’s going to fire up and steamroll them. There’s no big edge forward that’s going to smash their halves….
When you win the middle you can start to muscle over the whole field and our team simply had no match for the size of parra. Cartwright didn’t bully our boys because he’s tough, he did it because their props had us totally destroyed.
I don’t know who else saw it but we were incredibly lucky not to have more injuries across the park. Every single player was having to try harder to make an impact and every single one got manhandled by their size. Parra might be hopeless overall but they have one of the biggest and strongest packs in the league right now. We might compete with the mid range packs but the big ones are going to eat us alive if we stick to “grinding bulldogs game plans”. They said it after the sharks game, when your pack isn’t competitive you need to throw it around and move the other forwards. Cronk said that. Halves need to step up to cover our deficiencies this year. Which is the next issue because they are worse than our pack…..haha
