Round 15 Dragons vs South Sydney

[RedV01]

Now down to 12 the opening 10 min of the 2nd half is extremely important. The intensity needs to remain and no easy points. That is the best half of attacking football by the Dragons in 10 yrs. Now consolidate defend defend defend. The possession will turn towards Souths in the 2nd half. Our completion rate is currently 86% the highest it has been in 3 seasons. Discipline in the first 10 min is important and we will win this one.

Opening 7.5min down to 12.

 

[Eric]

It's great to see Bird and Feagai putting the ball under their arms and running hard.

 

[Morgan]

It's great to see Bird and Feagai putting the ball under their arms and running hard.

Bird has been quiet.

 

[Eric]

Bird has been quiet.

You are a hard marker.

 

[jodragon40]

Excellent start to the 2nd half

 

[jodragon40]

1st Job done

 

[Eric]

JDB back on to bring it home.

 

[jodragon40]

Watch Amone now

 

[GCRV]

lets not take out foot off the throttle!!

 

[jodragon40]

Great defence against a very ordinary team tonight

 

[Morgan]

Should have been expecting that!

 

[Eric]

WTF could see Lomax getting dragged back in from 50m away. Dive at their feet FFS Zac.

 

[GCRV]

Sims pulled a Jack Bird.

 

[Morgan]

Pretty lackluster second half from Saints.

 

[RedV01]

Why kick on the 3rd tackle?

 

[Chris M]

Ref giving several square ups after the 50-50 JDB call that went the Dragons way.

 

[Morgan]

Take the win even though I hoped they would win both halves.

 

[GCRV]

Take the win even though I hoped they would win both halves.

Bludger of a second half but lucky they only scored 12 points. Ref gave them several favorable calls in the second half.

 

[jodragon40]

Traditionally the game evens up some of you are very hard markers. Of course I would have loved to score more points in the 2nd half however I did say that possession would even up and it would come down to defence and discipline. The stats show the Lawrie had his best game ever as a starting prop kudos to him, 206m and that wins you games more often than not. Hunt was outstanding and he showed tonight that he is a very good playmaker at 7 NOT 9. If the forwards are going forward then the attack will develop. So as predicted possession evened right up 51 to 49% at 1 stage it was 79 to 21%. Completion dropped to 78% but that is good enough. We are now avg 30 missed tackles a game a far cry from 50. A big game against the Raiders next this win is the 1st in 9 outings against the Rabbitohs. Well deserved win.

 

[jodragon40]

Bludger of a second half but lucky they only scored 12 points. Ref gave them several favorable calls in the second half.

I expected that 2nd half we deserved the win simply because we were good enough to take advantage of all our possession.