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I want to qualify this post by saying I have had 5 white russians so far, so if it doesn't make sense pretend you're pissed.
There were 3 main problems that I saw the with game tonight;
1) We miss Pocock
Now I don't mean his ruck work, we're one of the luckiest clubs in the world in that we have 5~ players who can cover the pilfer role. But what we missed was a 190kg bloke smashing the ball up flat footed from the ruck along with Sharpe.
With Sharpe doing it by himself it slows the ball down too much and we have the worst flat footed backline offence in the comp.
2) O'Connor is not Carlos Spencer
The backline is too flat on attack. Spencer could do it (until the 03 semi when it blew up in his face) but O'Connor is not the same sort of player, he's a running 12 with good forward vision - he's not a player who can set up a 5 phase play like King Carlos could.
The 'canes have been trying to emulate it for years and look where it's got them!
3) Charles didn't do the robot
I donated $10 to his charity with the note to do the robot when he scored a try, and he didn't bloody do the robot!
Now there were lots of things that cost us the game, but it was obviously the lack of a lock n pop hooker that ultimately cost us!
And Sharpe in the post game interview - he deserves better.