Melbourne Storm vs Brisbane Broncos AAMI Park, Friday 26 August 2016 Kick Off 7:50pm 1. Cameron Munster 2. Suliasi Vunivalu 3. Will Chambers 4. Ryan Morgan 5. Marika Koroibete 6. Blake Green 7. Cooper Cronk 8. Jesse Bromwich 9. Cameron Smith 10. Tim Glasby 11. Kenneath Bromwich 12. Tohu Harris 13. Dale Finucane Interchange: 14. Felise Kaufusi 15. Christian Welch 16. Nelson Asofa-Solomona 17. Ben Hampton 1. Darius Boyd 2. Corey Oates 3. Tom Opacic 4. James Roberts 5. Jordan Kahu 6. Anthony Milford 7. Ben Hunt 8. Josh McGuire 9. Andrew McCullough 10. Adam Blair 11. Sam Thaiday 12. Matt Gillett 13. Corey Parker Interchange: 14. Jarrod Wallace 15. Tevita Pangai Junior 16. Jai Arrow 17. Alex Glenn
The missus lost her shit laughing at me. I legit squealed when Arrow scored. Was that tense hoping for them to catch Cronk in goal, it just came out.
Yeah someone, presumably Bennett, has finally said to Thaiday, listen you fat, lazy cunt. You've been trading on reputation now for years. And your recent stupidity has let your team mates down. Get out there and fucking do something or fuck off into retirement.
As initially annoyed as I was at Melbourne losing at the same time good to see chinks in their armour. Broncos I have to admit their energy was really good and just out-enthused the Storm off the bat.
I wouldnt buy into Melbournes form over the past few weeks. They are the only team in the comp who has been able to afford to start preparing for finals footy. Their training and resting of players of late would all be with an eye to peaking in September. Meanwhile the Broncos, Cowboys and Sharks (to a lesser extent) have all been playing catch up trying to get performances on the board aws. I think Melbourne are well ahead of the rest at the moment. The unknowns are Canberra and a lesser extent Penrith who are just riding the highs of improved performances and stringing some wins together.
