Gatr22 wrote: Daudy wrote: Cruising! You can only beat what's in front of you, and that includes the USA twice, so well done hosh. Ouch, congrats anyway. It's hard to beat a team 3 times though, so here's hoping we meet again

Hah, it wasn't meant to be a slight against you guys. That's the part that was well done! Beating the rest of the botting sides was the first part.

Retiring players on NTs stay until the WC is over, right?

ledilot wrote: Gatr22 wrote: Daudy wrote: Cruising! You can only beat what's in front of you, and that includes the USA twice, so well done hosh. Ouch, congrats anyway. It's hard to beat a team 3 times though, so here's hoping we meet again You will. Day after tomorrow, it seems!

3rd time is the charm

Connor Morton and Kai Harbar had stam 20 games and a bad roll for Rhys Drummond. James Wood had a great roll (5* all day) but still gave up 3 pressures and 2 sacks, all in the 2nd half.

Overall -
2 pressures in first half (great)
6 pressures and 2 sacks in the 2nd half. My only explanation is the stam 20 effect of Morton. The QB and both WRs were 5* all day but McLeod had a bad roll and day.
Harbar got smoked 3 times in the 2nd half.
Offense shut out in 2nd half.

Basic theme - 2nd half.
Basic explanation - stam 20.

Really disappointed with the timing of this. The only other time we got stung with this was vs Austria which also resulted in a poor performance. But in that game I got caught out when Hayne hit stam 20 and so we had the stam 20 hit between him and Harbar, both on defense and Morton never had it. But the offense was still piss poor that day as well. Today there was only the one stam 20 player on both O and D and the stam 20 bug hit - first time this cycle.

xxxx it!