He was really good yesterday, much better than his recent form. He has crazy upper body strength, you never see him crouch down to hit the line, he just hits hard with his chest and manages to push through and hardly ever gets driven back. If he and Galvin keep yesterday’s form going they will...

I generally ignore missed tackles as a stat because it doesn’t credit whether the miss actually slowed down the attacker so that other guys can come in and finish him off. Yesterday was different because the Panthers took advantage of lots of our misses to either make more yards or get the ball...

Great call. I might be reaching here but I reckon this has a lot to do with Reed being dropped. Reed’s service is much crisper than Hayward’s and Mann used to get the ball more quickly and have more time to either link to the outside or see an opening and hit the line. I think everyone got...

Yep, he’s falling onto his knees almost before he’s gotten to the defence and then he does that swivel to try and back himself a few metres further forward. He’s a big lad and will learn from this season but he really struggled today.

Massive ego on him though, his reaction to his last try said it all. Settle down dude, you are on the end of a Nathan Cleary backline, you should be thanking all the gods every morning that you’ve been kissed on the dick by the footy angels.

Katoa I think right? He was literally 1m from our attacking line as the ball came out of the scrum and the ball came his way. I woke the kids up with my yell. What is the actual point of touch judges?

Assuming no Critta or Tuala, I think it has to be: 1. Tracey - great game last night after a few poor ones, not the time to move him now. 2. Kiraz - he came back too early, looked sore last night but hopefully better after another week’s rest. 3. Xerri - no brainer that he comes back in. 4...

Critta is our best aerial player by a mile and he just watched as Tuala got monstered. Defences these days are too worried about blocking chasers but making it look like they’re not, or waiting for the tap back infield. The other thing that would have helped was more pressure on Walker. He...

No-one can explain the wingers. Picking Tuala over Jethro or Wilson was mistake 1. Separating Critta and Kiraz was mistake 2 although I can kinda understand it if the intent was to help Tuala by putting Critta next to him, but then Critta didn’t compete with Tupou in the air even once so go...

Yes, but Preston also needs to pull his head in. He was poor last night and for the last month honestly. Not hitting space like he used to and that’s on him and his positioning, not always Galvin or Sexton. Last night he got put on his arse by Steep who stood over him and laughed and Preston...

Yep. Hayward was going perfectly well at 14 and there was no crisis with Reed that justified changing things up in such a crucial position at this time of year. It’s such an unnecessary own goal. Reed leaves in October (likely sooner the way we’re going) and Hayward gets a full preseason at 9...

Didn’t say he wasn’t our best, just that he could have given more support to Tuala who was a sitting duck all night against Tupou. Critta is our best aerial player and he didn’t once compete in the air with Tupou.

As much as I love Critta it’s hard to disagree with this. Critta was standing there watching the two jumping Tupou tries while Tuala looked like a turtle on its back, had no idea which way he was facing. If nothing else, we should have switched Tuala and Critta positions on the last couple of...

Completely outplayed and outsmarted. We play Tuala instead of Jethro, then we put Tuala up against Tupou and break up Critta and Kiraz. We give Curran 58 minutes of pure garbage and we give Mann 28 minutes. Preston gets dominated and laughed at, doesn’t give a peep back or turn up harder in...

Galvin looked petrified yesterday, he got plenty of ball but couldn’t wait to just pass it on. Reckon he might have let the occasion get the better of him, didn’t want to make any mistakes that would fire the crowd up at him any more than they already were. As for Mahoney I am kinda done with...

To replace who? Turner has been good for us this year and although Goodwin's form isn't as good as last year, his goal kicking has been pretty good (I think he's up around 80%).

Are you kidding? This was probably the first game all year where he was fired up and involved in everything - if he has to get in a few fights with big fellas then so be it!