It's delayed. Both sides are content to play field position, but it's staring to open up in this second quarter. Ryles' sheer size is giving us some impact up front, and Melbourne seem to be playing inside the ruck a lot more than usual, to good effect. I can see this scoreline opening up. I'm loving Widdops involvement so far.
I was ragging on Pearce earlier in the week - and what really sticks out watching Thurston last night, and Cronk today who are the premier halfbacks in the game, is their decision making. It's almost as though Pearce lacks the ability to think on the fly. He has his set plays, but he doesn't adapt to the situation. Team wise, Melbourne backup better than any side in the comp. That last try we deadset had a four man overlap on the fullback. I missed the start - is Finchy playing?
Interesting. I thought they would play him as a utility for sure. Even just mix to up the dynamic a bit in the last twenty. Soward is puss. He's such a pussy - get in his face and hell shit himself everytime.
Didn't get to watch the game because I was out, only saw bits and pieces. Two things I saw: 1) Fien kick the ball into a storm defender and they got a runaway try. 2) The set after (I think) our first try, Frizell threw a simple pass to Fien on last tackle and he dropped it. FFS get the fucking worthless piece of shit out of there.
Even when you cut them some slack for all their injuries, Chase and Kyle have accomplished absolutely nothing in their entire FG careers. I can't understand the circlejerk that Dragons' fans have over them.
Stanley got injured? Feel for the bloke but probably better for us we'll see. Would much rather it had been Fien though.
I think Sultan Pepper was referring to Kyle Stanley. Haven't heard anything about Chase Stanley being injured in the Melbourne game.
Apparently he was . I didn't get to see the last half so I was just assuming Chase hadn't managed to injure himself again.
I was talking about the injury to chase but i feel the same about kyle, never has a player gained such big wraps without ever achieving anything at the top level.
I don't know about Kyle, but I thought Chase was thoroughly impressive in the eight out of fifty games he managed to play for Melbourne.
They've got that advantage of a settled core too. Certainly helps when other sides have a few new key faces.
