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Vaimauga had some great footwork at the line tonight. AFBesque.
He is gonna be a great player.
Laban. Leka and him, the forward future is bright

We shouldn’t even be in the conversation for the GF, judging from preseason roster.. We are overachieving by being top 4.

Way to go Warrior’s finally I can say YES A win by 6 .

Makasene said:

I disagree.

PD is irrelevant if you keep winning.

PD is a tie breaker. Tie breakers don't matter if you finish top 4.

Nothing other than winning matters. How you win is irrelevant. Just win.

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Broooo

That's what I keep saying.

Like...we're fucking top 2....let's enjoy this for a minute?

People banging on about pd right now

Get them onside ref! said:

Incorrect bruv
Points differential at business end is soooo important
Good win
But stop allowing these teams to com back in 2nd half

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I disagree.

PD is irrelevant if you keep winning.

PD is a tie breaker. Tie breakers don't matter if you finish top 4.

Nothing other than winning matters. How you win is irrelevant. Just win.

What a unit.
Let's get rid of him.

skinnydippng said:

CHT 63/82 for 76.83%

Pompey 45/62 for 72.5%

Metcalf 44/67 for 65.67%

and for reference
SJ 559/732 for 76.37%

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Generally 75% is the accepted level to be considered a 'good' goal kicker.

Elite is approx 80%

El Masri: 81.97%
Thurston: 79.50%
Halligan: 79.31%%


Metcalf is a poor goal kicker, no two ways about it. It's not hurting us quite yet but it will kill us in the finals

Just left the stadium. What a game man wowww!! Up the wahsssss

Gotta give some credit to Niukore. Him and Capewell have played out of their skin over the past month.

What the fuck was with that commentary today, was so incredibly biased it was almost comical. Even for Blocker it was embarrassing. Someone might need to let him know Souths actually lost that one.

They did well covering for Barnett.

Ford did a lot of work.

Vaimauga was causing havoc in their 20 with his offloads. Gave us something to play off.

Canonball said:

seriously, that tightness was managed ... there were some awful calls constantly going against us in the last 20

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I'd prefer to point out referee decisions after a win.

It was frustrating in the first half with the amount of times we had them lying around the ruck. The first half we had a dominant tackle and got penalised for holding down. Then Barnett pinged for being off side. The only penalty we got was for a head high something he needs to give. The others were ones he was looking for. Surely they were off side and some point or pushed things a bit in the tackle. We did get them lying in the ruck a lot.

The second half he was quick on the 6 again's when they were on attack. We may push it a bit to get our defence organised but you'd expect it to return when we are applying a lot of pressure.

Ford got done for holding on to the ball player which gave up a 6 again. If that was the level he was looking for, there was an incident later on when we were in their 20 that should have warranted the same.

Still yet to be beaten by a team outside the top 4

i can’t believe people want to get rid of CNK

Let's be honest. If Latrell doesn't play, this is a 13+ win. Just some freakish play + luck got them back into the game. We were the better side for the majority of the game. But even with all the craziness, this is still a comfortable win if Luke kicks a couple more goals. Not that fussed. After all the frustrations with our attack, we scored 7 tries today and 36 pts. Bring on Cronulla.

They never make it easy hence our points differential but we find a way to win. So good and never not entertaining.

CNK was great except for that touchline mishap.

RTS I said this in the game thread, he's great on the wing....he doesn't have the top end pace of the best wingers but he has so many other attributes...solid under high ball, great at returns out of our half, high work rate, ability to beat the man with his step and his strength in the tackle.....top notch.

Well done boys, another hard fought win....hope Mitch is ok soon.

Some thoughts on the game.

CNK - MOM. He was everywhere again. The guy just does so much of the hard yards and big effort plays.

Barney - man we are going to miss that bloke. I only wish him the best and hope the scan shows a better outcome than it looked. Time for Fish to stand up.

LM - I thought we looked more structured inside their 20. There seemed to be more options for him which would’ve helped, but certainly more fluid than last week. Pompey needs to convert though…

RTS - Roger was a difference maker again I thought.

Can someone dig up some stats on kicking percentages between CHT Pompey and LM? Would be interested to know…



Berry - His kick chase and defensive pressure makes such a big difference. I feel for Ali, but a position is not a given and I hope he works his arse off to try and dethrone Berry or Pompey.

Thought Demi brought a lot of good energy off the bench today. Forced a handover, and had a key role in Berrys try.

Hard to single out anymore as it seemed like a real team effort across the board. They seem committed and supportive of each other throughout the 80.

Thought the reffing was a bit average today. Plenty of forward passes in the lead up to their tries. Lots of late tackle six agains and penalties. He just kept on letting them back in it until the death.

I don’t mind Egan being given a spell, but I just wonder if TMM is the best person for that.

DWZ was better today but still is so hairy out on that wing sometimes. No one else would’ve finished his try like he did today.

That really should’ve been the game to help our PD, but between the ref and some shit conversions is was another +6.

CNK is classic Webster style - 332m hard run meters

An in-form Latrell is scary for the league.

Good to see our attack come to life and great moments of goal line defence, despite losing Barnett.

One more week till the much needed bye. We needed this win, officially equalling our 2024 total wins.

Demitric, CNK, RTS & Berry was absolutely massive today without looking at the stats - eye test alone.

God they make it nerve racking every fucking week. Wins a win by sheesh...