I am thinking of not making an effort for the origin rounds, I will be losing 4-5 of my best players to Origin duties and without them I can't win. EG if I replace Cleary with Strange for Origin I will lose my H2H. I also lose Payne Haas
No don't unless you want to hear corporate jargon like how the losses present us with an "exciting opportunity" to test ourselves and how he is "personally excited by this opportunity". Too much positivity.
Webster said in the presser we are not in a hole because we have only lost two on the bounce. He seems to be counting the Manly game as a good outcome instead of a fluke that we got a point. We are winless in our last three matches.
I saw this coming and traded away Terrell this week. He got limited minutes last week and he was named at 17 this week in the lineup. Usually but not always the bench is in a pecking order,. Number 14 gets the most minutes and number 17 a low amount. My observation anyway.
I am done my rants for the evening. I am not mad at this loss. I was more ropeable last week. We didn't play that bad this week and had two dissallowed tries that they would have given to a team like the roosters.
That try where Dallin competed in the air for it I didn't think he knocked it on...
It was not a banana skin game at all. They were on more of a roll coming into this match than we were. The TAB odds having us heavy favourites were completely misguided.
I don't see us winning our way into the GF with Montoya's blunders. And I know I risk being attacked by the BerrySiah people but he needs another stint in NSW cup to fix his one on one defence. He is a liability on defence at the moment. Specifically and this comes from my days playing rugby...
He also dropped two defensive bombs which admittedly were contested. But he is not good under the high ball.
I said last week Pompey should be playing just to stop the mistakes happening.