Fair play to Daley. Did a great job getting them up for the games and didn't make as many selection blunders as we thought he would but yeah, not picking Carney. You can't not pick your best half and expect to win, even with a home series. This QLD side is just too consistently hard to play to proffer them that luxury.
You've gotta hand it to the blues and shayne hayne, they tried hard but couldn't get there in the end.
Fox Sports: Josh Dugan: 8 Brett Morris: 7 Michael Jennings: 7.5 Josh Morris: 7 James McManus: 7.5 James Maloney: 6 Mitchell Pearce: 6 Aaron Woods: 2.5 Robbie Farah: 7.5 James Tamou: 6 Ryan Hoffman: 7 Luke Lewis: 5.5 Greg Bird: 7 Interchange: Andrew Fifita: 7.5 Trent Merrin: 7 Anthony Watmough: 8.5 Boyd Cordner: 5 Billy Slater: 7 Darius Boyd: 7 Greg Inglis: 5 Justin Hodges: 7 Brent Tate: 7,5 Johnathan Thurston: 8 Cooper Cronk: 8 Matt Scott: 8 Cameron Smith: 8 Nate Myles: 6.5 Chris McQueen: 6.5 Sam Thaiday: 5.5 Corey Parker: 7 Interchange: Daly Cherry-Evans: 6.5 Ben Te’o: 6 Matt Gillett: 6 Josh Papalii: 6.5
How does Pearce get a 6? I was so happy everytime he got the ball. Him and Dugan cost NSW about 3 tries.
Aaron Woods: 3 hit-ups for 12m. 18m in total. Given his stats at club level as they are I don't see how he could play any better for the Tigers and warrant the risk of picking him again. Maybe as a bench option but fuck picking him again to start. You just couldn't. He was just terrible. Borderline disgraceful.
Felt so sorry for Matty Scott not getting that try cause fuck me he deserves it after the year he's had.
What makes it worse is that the player apparently impeded (Hoffman) is offside anyway. An offside player diving into a streaker shouldn't prevent a try from being scored.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3AawcevJqTo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Lol @ Shayne "De Niro" Hayne
Surely next year there has to be at least another front rower. Wish they had gone with Lillyman or Hannant in this game.
Fucking lol at Hodges telling Hayne he'll pour him a beer (given that he thinks the game is thus concluded). Love Gus and the boys pissing themselves. I'll give him one thing, Hodges has the best sledges. This one and the way he put Bedsy in his place are fucking classic.
I think he actually says this: "That's a try hey? Hey? I'll buy you a beer" Pretty sure he's jokingly trying to buy the referee's decision.
Also glad that Gus picked up on Bird. Fuck, I respect him as a great player but Jesus H Christ he pulled some shit last night. Got away with murder in the ruck and yet played for a penalty every fucking time he touched the ball. And not normal playing for a penalty. Totally over the top shit.