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6-1 penalty count to the dogs after the tigers got to a 32-6 lead, aka even up the count so it looks fair in the stats and in the newspaper report
Yes Rodzilla it was evident that he wanted to play even up and make the penalty count a bit more respectable. Don't know what it looked like on TV but at the ground the fact was that the Tigers players were up to 1 1/2 to 2 metres off side all night, their markers were quite often not square, or at the least the second marker was not.
We were off the pace last night for sure, our defence was terrible at times, our attack was pedestrian but their defence standing on top of our attacking line all night did not help.
There were several penalties for hands on the ball and more could have been given, quite a few strips occurred from these which were ruled as knock ons, a real momentum killer.
A million forward passes from the Tigers were allowed to stand and most of them came from dummy half plays or on hit ups after the kick off.
It is not so much the fact that a penalty is awarded, it is when and where that can be a killer, thus the penalties we were given late in the game when the score was so lopsided were of no benefit to us and no punishment to them.
One thing that is obvious is that we are a one trick pony. It was so frustrating that we ran plays to the left hand side all night, yes it did pay off once but every other time we either lost the ball, turned it over on the last. Yes Rona is on that side and is our top try scorer but Corey Thompson and the guys on the other side must have caught a cold from lack of involvement in attack. It is so one dimensional and makes it easy for the opposition to pick us off and protect their try line.
We are aimless in attack inside the twenty and our best try last night came from a beautiful attacking run from our own half. Frank Pritchard ran over the top of I think it was Mitchell Moses to score his second try and in fact he did a similar thing several times during the game, a bit of a hint that the other players could have taken up on. No one ran at their little blokes other than Frank. When he is on the field we have good go forward and Des needs to give him more time. Frankie was absolutely pissed when he was taken off the field later in the second half and he let the crowd know as he walked past to the bench.
The ref did not immediately see the Woods incident where he collared Reynolds late, it was obvious what had happened, like a lot of other things everyone but the guy with the whistle or his onfield officials saw it,but then when he called Woods out he also spoke to Reynolds as if he had done something wrong. What was going on there, we could not see any wrongdoing by Reynolds, I wonder did he say something?There was also another prominent incidence where our kicker was put on the ground by a late shot, once again no action by the officials.
I have not watched the replay but would be interested to know if there was any foul play on Josh Jackson in an off the ball incident as he was left lying on the ground for a minute or so, flat on his back whilst we were in possession.It was probably mid second half and he taken off the field but returned later.
Very disappointed with what happened last night and the car trip home was lousy but have a three week break until our next home game where it does not get any better against the Roosters. Two weeks is the Cowboys in Qld, on a hiding to nothing there if we don't get some sort of game plan going.
