Well done to the Reds! Forwards won the match.
”One of the best performances I’ve seen by an Aussie halves pairing for some time”….now that is spoken like a true Reds man! Hyperbole. They played well off an extremely dominant forward pack who won the collisions and had plenty of post contact metres. Any halves can look good behind that. But hey.. if you want to call them superb, your opinion. Hope the Reds go well in the finals and Ryan scores plenty of meat pies against the Kiwis. If you want to get excited about performances… he’s your man. A great young talent.
I don’t think my comment implies that their performance was more than what it is. We beat the team coming 9th. Of course it means nothing next week, much less the week after. I guess I could try and apply some sort weighting scale - but, honestly, I don’t think that’s necessary to make a subjective judgement of their game
And of course it came off a dominant forward performance. That’s a given. When was the last dominant halves performance you saw where the forwards were shit? They laid a great platform and the interplay was good. But that doesn’t in any way make my comment incorrect. The halves still have do their job behind that. I can’t remember anyone ever downplaying Aaron Smith or Carter’s performances because they played behind McCaw, Rettalick, Read & co. Apart from one wayward kick their kick, pass, run decisions were spot on. I will qualify my rating a bit in saying I’m leaving Lynagh’s goal kicking out and just rating their general play.
What more would you have liked to see from them?
And if ‘the best performance by an Aussie halves pair’ is hyperbole - which performance do you think has been better. I don’t get to watch every Aussie game so I may have missed some. I think Lolesio and Lonergan have had some good games this year, but not sure any I have seen were better than that.
But genuinely keen to hear which have as I’d honestly probably go watch the replay.
