Paul Kent

They failed to be inspired.

And they failed to be inspired.

He wasn't reaching them.

And because of that, you basically put two and two together, come up with 22, but basically put that together with these anonymous quotes

with New South Wales' poor starts in the past three games, then suddenly a picture starts to take place and puts a lot of pressure on Laurie in this game coming up on Wednesday to basically change his approach to things.

Because he already knows in the back of his mind that New South Wales haven't been nailing the starts.

There's something probably does have to change.

So does Laurie now go in and go all fire and brimstone?

Now, this just puts pressure on him, which means if he does do that, it really opens up the chance of it backfiring and not working at all because Laurie's no longer acting according to his own instincts.

He's trying to be something he's probably not.

And so that can have the capacity to really backfire in the preparation in those last few moments before they run out.

New South Wales have had to come back.

I get that.

But that's my point.

They weren't emotional mistakes.

they were just fundamental errors.

They were just simple basics, getting up and playing the ball.

He'd made his run.

It's not like he ran in and had a cocked an elbow and went all Les Boyd on Broman type of thing.

It basically was an inability to get up and play the ball properly.