Were the Warriors that good, or are we that bad
Bit of column A and a bit of column B. There is no doubt the Warriors had one of those games were they look unbeatable, as they can do. With him gone they weren't standing around waiting for Johnson to perform some magic and win the game for them. They had to win it for themselves (without him) and they were fired up, right on it from the kickoff and didn't take their foot of the pedal, which is most unlike them.
In contrast, we had a shocker. Despite a near to perfect completion rate (best of the round), next to zero unforced errors, more offloads than the opposition, less errors, more kicked metres, nothing in attack really worked and as a result they got frustrated.
There are a couple of stats that stick out for me, we only had ~26 minutes in possession (45%) with only 32 tackle sets, it's pretty hard to win a game with that little ball. Plus they were 10% faster playing the ball than we were (we weren't that slow they were fast), that's plainly not good. Which all adds up to tired players who miss tackles.
A couple of strange ones, we only used 7 interchanges, RFM played 80 mins and CHN only played 30 mins. Personally I'd reverse that for Game 2.
Go Dogs