Our kick chases were shocking last week and Boyd and Morris carved us up on returns.
We couldn't afford to be that sloppy against those two and we certainly can't afford to be so poor on kick chases with Slater at the back.
They have a very strong, workmanlike pack and we can't give Inglis any room. If we give up quick play the balls Smith will eat us alive and Cronk will have too much time.
Also, we did a poor job of wrapping up the ball against Saints and preventing offloads. That needs to be corrected so that Slater, Inglis etc don't get ball against a tired and susceptible defence.
I must agree with every word Ben.
The comeback and the controversial end to last week match glossed over the fact that we were damn awful for long periods of that game and were helped greatly by the ineptitude of the Dragons attack.
Now until last night I would have thought we would have more than enough points in us to match it with the Storm as they had been struggling just as much as St George in that department but the addition of Brett Finch is going to be some cause for concern. Regardless of what people think of him from his past exploits, he has settled in there nicely and has taken a lot of pressure off Cronk, Smith and Inglis ... along with Slater lurking behind in support that's five players we have got to shut down if we are to win and I just hope our defence is up to the task. We have got to dominate nearly every tackle because it doesn't take much for them to get on a roll.
If the Storm back up and play that well next Saturday then we are going to have to put in our best performance of the year to come out ahead. We certainly can't afford to give them the kind of leads we've been giving up because a 14 point deficit against an in form Storm is pretty much the match.
