My thoughts exactly speccy, i'm always gutted when we lose to Brothers, but fuck you have to respect them. They are the best side in the competition. For the filth both Murphy brothers were outstanding, Damon in particular was very strong in his kick returns. But the stand out for them was their number 11, he was devastating with ball in hand. For the tigers I thought our back three was electric on kick returns and in general play, and young UJ showed his talent when he came on. Up front Parraka destroyed the Brothers scrum after half time, and Michael Stollberg had the best game I've seen him play, he is really coming into his own the past month or so. I think the main area where Easts were let down was their kicking in general play. It was clear especially in the second half that Richards wanted them to play more of a territorial game, but the execution in my opinion was poor, it gave Murphy and their wingers countless opportunities to attack, as the kick chase was poor. Rubbing salt into the wounds for Easts was Brandon going off after the last try, it looked serious, I would not expect him back anytime soon.
Was a great game though, massive crowd their aswell. I dearly hope that we will be seeing both sides at Ballymore come the final. For Easts now we have a few easier rounds and will look to rack up some bonus points before the Sunnybank game comes around.
