James Parsons

Now you see this so often.

The player that's swooping takes away all the space because they carry on that angle.

He swoops and just bangs off his left foot, squares up the defence.

The defence had to square up then jamming.

Short ball, Sullivan.

Good night, nurse.

Oh, just picture perfect.

The coach's dream around out the back,

square up like you have to the moment you come around that corner you have to square up unless you've got raw gas like a tangata and you can go and score yeah but if you carry on on that angle and you don't score and you've run everyone out of room oh

Naughty, naughty.

Oh, and the rucks were so messy.

Because it just was like, you look at the, both teams are really good around that defensive breakdown, but the Reds are some of the best.

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.