James Parsons

It was just so messy.

I was like, oh, the poor bloke.

That halfback roll, Brenna, it's very hard.

Yeah, and look, I've been quite hard on the Blues last two weeks around their defence, because they were leading the comp defensively, but leaked, obviously, 40 points two weeks in a row.

Yes, they leaked 33 points this week, but for the amount of opportunities the Reds had in the 22, their D was probably the defining factor.

Mm-hmm.

So although they, again, another quite a high scoring affair, they won't like that tackling around that 85%.

They're a team that's used to sort of 90-91.

But they won the breakdown against the Reds, which is very hard to do.

They had more pilfers than...

than them and obviously held them out more often than not.

And again, man, the Blues get in the 22.

They're pretty efficient.

Five from the eight visits.

There's a lot to like, but I still think they'll be frustrated with what you mentioned, Bryn.

I know as a team they want to be ruthless and they want to put sides away.

And if they are to win this competition, that is their biggest work on going into these final stages, into that finals footy, is just having the ability to keep their nerve at 33-21, not give the turnover that allows the counter-attack.

But yeah, look, they'll be stoked to get away with a result.

Because I agree, the Reds are a really, really strong team, especially up front.

Well, you just saw that.