Lol it isn't Gallen love at all. I told you I think Gallen is a ****ing grub but my statement was completely true. He was the only one who ran onto the ball tonight. He was the only one who cracked 100 metres, no one else came close.
Gallen is a dirty grub as said but he's basically vital to us making any metres at all. Biggest WTF @ Foxsports saying he was unseen..
Final stats are in (which means they have been done in slow mo so they are pretty much accurate) Michael Weyman - 7 hitups for 46 metres Brett White - 9 Hitups for 76 metres Hindmarsh - 6 hitups for 49 metres Creagh - 3 hitups for 21 metres Gallen - 14 hitups for 114 metres Waterhouse - 6 hitups for 40 metres TLL - 9 hitups for 71 metres O'Donnel - 9 hitups for 63 metres What a joke
He had to. He gave away two penalties, the first of which we scored off. He also knocked on. But of course the only thing that matters is metres, right? You people never learn.
No he's not. If you had decent props you wouldn't need grubby, indisciplined players that get your side marched down field and give free interchanges to the opposition. Take 20m off for his two penalties - That's 75m and 16 tackles - Garbage. And that's being generous. You could easily attribute the try to him as it was his infringement that gave them the field position and the repeat set to score 3 minutes in. More tackling on your line too. I mean penalties in today's game just kill you.
I know very well how costly penalties are. The Roosters have been specialties at it for the last 5 years. However, like you said, if we had decent props we wouldn't need a Gallen but we have props who can't even get us out of our own half, what the **** is the use then? We had maybe 3 or 4 sets in the QLD 20 all night. If you are stuck down the other end of the field you aren't going to score any points. Then you have dickhead wingers and centres who cannot defend and let in a try almost every time QLD get down there. In a 34-6 drubbing, Gallen was the least of our problems. If we had solid props getting us up the field and laying a platform for the halves who are creating some attack and giving us points and we had a backline who could defend in their positions and Gallen comes along and kills our momentum with a stupid ****ing penalty that leads to a try then **** yeah Gallen is a big ****ing problem.
Even though he was the reason you were down on your line, it's completely Monoghan's fault? Your problem tonight was field position. How exactly do Gallen's penalties not effect that? So it's only a problem if others are playing awesome? Please don't sit there and say you realise how vital and damaging penalties are. You clearly don't.
I never said it wasn't a problem, I said it was the least of our problems tonight. I also never said Gallen's penalties didn't affect field position, it is pretty ****ing obvious that any penalty affects field position. The simple point that I was making is that out of tonight when you sit back and watch wtf went wrong, there are numerous things that are higher on the list than Gallen.
20 minutes in and Gallen had already marched QLD down field twice. The second time the Blues were just starting to get into the match after two sets on QLD's line. He released and chance of building pressure from good defensive sets with a second penalty. Taylor went within a metre of scoring in the following set because of Gallen.
Apparently everything is higher on the list according to you. You clearly don't blame Gallen for the first try. Even though you really should.
I thought you wanted to just blame Gallen for the first try though. But yes I do agree Gallen deserves blame for giving QLD an opportunity to score.
Sky had this on and since I'm slowly getting into League more and more I watched it. A quality first live Aussie RL game for me to watch TSTL, Queensland absolutely dominated and NSW looked disinterested all day long to me. Thurston showed his quality today for me for Qld, I can definately see why people reckon if he turned his hand at Union he'd be a hit, quality in attack and also made a good few hits in defence. Qld just seemed to be able to defend everything that got thrown at them, and then when they finally got the ball they could use their bigger guys to smash it up the middle, set a platform and go, whilst NSW seemed fragile in defence to me and every time they put a ball up their chase was shocking, allowing Qld to get the ball back easily without too much pressure on their boys. Oh, and I loved the brawl in the first half, Union should introduce the "report" warning so we could have more of these
