Ross Karl

The second fewest losses and they are relatively consistent.

They don't have a, well, they don't really have a really bad year consistently.

No, not until this year.

I fell a little bit short with the Broncos, but two out of three is not too bad.

Surely it's over.

The stats are just ridiculous.

But anyway, we won't get into it.

It sounds like you're doing a bit of coaching of the refs again, bro.

You look at Noah Hotham's game, you get the sense when he backs himself to run, the rest comes with him.

You know, like he scores that try.

Obviously, that's some of his better work in terms of reading those, I suppose, the body shape of defenders in and around the rack.

But when he gets his confidence in his running game, he almost is a little bit of a mini Roy guard.

Is that the biggest growth of his game, would you say, is box kicks?

I suppose previously that's been the slight on him.

I think it's Mike Blair as well.

When we spoke with him, it is playing with instinct.

It's actually reading the defence.

And that's why I think what I've really liked of Noah, especially the last two weeks, is he's not only created opportunities for himself, but like Bryn says, when he starts running, you have to tighten defensively if you're a type 5 player.

um player and and then that creates the opportunities to sort of set the edges a lot they haven't had the ability of what we're used to getting to that edge you think about when the crusaders are going so well they bust down the left front they bust down the right flank and then they go to their set piece once they get into that 22 or their pick and go they haven't been able to breach the 22 as much but

I think the biggest shift has been Noah's game that's allowed them those opportunities and yes they fell short against the Canes but I think the Canes are still the team to beat and I thought they put up a really really strong fight.