GRAND FINAL - Melbourne Storm VS Canterbury Bulldogs

Yeah, I really thought something like this might happen earlier in the final series, especially against Manly. When it didn't I thought they had a real genuine team on their hands and completely changed my tune, but in the end it does just go to show that finals football is a different ballgame, and more conventional structures exist for a reason. All Melbourne did was employ a real aggressive up and in style of defence that required the Canterbury ball-players to show some vision, and while the likes of Graham and Kasiano may have the skill of a lot of halves, they don't have the vision for it - and Keating certainly doesn't.

Massive ups to Hasler though who this year put himself, in my books anyway, up there with the best coaches of my lifetime. He made the absolute best of what he did and he did it in a completely different style to what he'd coached before; a real case of adapting to the resources he had at his disposal.