(10-09-2023, 02:08 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:The match was won and lost in so many little moments of people switching off at the wrong time, that team balance being "the reason" is completely irrelevant.In fairness MC can have an impact, if we go back to the Prelim and watch for those little moments, when Martin and Motlop fly and we've nobody crumbing, where was Owies and Cunningham at the fall of the ball?
That's a type of team balance issue, but it's not the only reason for falling at the hurdle.
Retrospectively we can never know definitively if what the MC's did were positives or negatives, all we have are the vents on the day and a bunch of what could have been observations.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"