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Yeh and that only feels slightly rounded up. Its depressing but it was an improvement

Should also be said the Canes were good and had obviously done their homework. Valetini was heavily marked/targeted with chop tackles and even when the brums got momentum the canes made good decisions to stop it (e.g the intercept after Thorn made his first long break off the scrum). Also some...

Hurricanes out brumbiesd them. Built momentum from contestable kicks and monopolised the ball in good territory. Not many out and out poor showings for the brums outside of back 3 as discussed already at length. Reimer did show clearly that hes much better finishing games than starting them...

Yeh and I think a few of the misses are down to rushing/the system. Muirhead has definitely had a couple of bad ones though. Was the earlier stab at Lolesio just for the hell of it or has he actually missed a tackle (at the ground so genuinely don't know)? Slipper and Allallatoa going down...

Reds a totally different side coming out of the bye. Blues aren't what they were but ghat was an impressive, direct display. McDermott, Lynagh and of course McReight fantastic but very impressed with Pakeho - extra size and speed compared to Paisami might see him in front of him for Wallabies...

Tate's kicking much improved, has obviously been doing the work. Excellent

Swain very close to reactivating the contract on his life from all of NZ there. Looked a fair cleanout but Iose fell very awkwardly. Seems ok though.

Ugly but absolutely taking the BP win against a side we've had trouble against previously. Physicality/defence is improving and it was another good day for 9 and 10. Hopefully Wright got those errors out of his system when they weren't costly. A win next week would provide some real momentum...

Looks fkn wet to be fair

Great reward for muscling up defensively there. Huge effort from the pack in particular. Lot of dropped ball but very physical. Would have liked Noah to kick the conversion there. Great to see Frost continuing his improved physicality from last week.

Not sure I agree re his defence (watch the first 20 mins from last weekend) but he definitely looks promising. Hopefully he can string games together heading into finals and keep building.

I hate cats but it was a satisfying win. I'm comfortable that nothing I said was any less rational than what would have come the other way had the result been reversed. As others have pointed out, Brums fresh vs the Reds off 8 straight games or whatever it was played a big part, the return game...

I mean if the shoe is on the other foot Noah gets caned for not being able to change the momentum, but it wasn't easy for Lynagh last night I agree.

Agree it was a disappointing night for mcdermott in particular. He is outstanding as a 30 minute injection but his core skills are still not up to starting for the wallabies. The 10 jersey is far less cut and dried. Noah was better tonight but its still a lottery.

Yep definitely meant fans in general not you. It must be a very disappointing result for a lot of people that would have been very vocal on here if the result had been reversed though.