I listened to Benji earlier, and totally agree. Like he said it was a weird match. Stats were in our favour, but Storm were just clinical and got a few free tries (off our attacking errors).
As they said, it's an anomaly, at least I hope it is. I also agree that we would have scored a few tries on another team. Storm had a ruthless mentality. That being said, I wish Dufty tried like Paps does. Dufty has a lot of the same attributes as Paps. The biggest difference is his enthusiasm and desire to be involved in almost every play. Paps clearly has a very strong winning mentality. One of the things I looked forward to was the opportunities TPJ would offer the likes of Dufty. TPJ has done his part (he was our shining light in that loss) but Dufty hasn't. TPJ has been offloading like crazy, all for nothing. I can't remember much coming from one of his offloads. This is where Dufty and others need to be better. Thankfully we've signed one of the best support players in Mahoney, because currently, our support play stinks, especially through the middle. I knew Benji wouldn't mention that though.
I don't agree with Benji about moving Burton to fullback. I mean it could work. Iirc he's had some experience in that role, and these days a lot of fullbacks are more ball players and kickers, but does he have the pace or stamina? Doubtful. When Hughes made that break after we coughed up the ball, I noticed Burton was buggered and was just jogging back. That is one thing you can't fault Dufty on. There's been a few situations like that this season and he's usually chasing hard, to try and stop them scoring. If we moved Burton, what then with Dufty? Play him at 6? He'd get trampled.
