Quote: Horatio Yed "You miss my point, i'm saying that if two championship sides had played at that same levels, dropping ball as often with as little pressure as those mistakes were made under, they'd be disappointed with their performance.
Both teams didn't play well but the fact that equalled itself out kept the game exciting. If either team had played a higher championship side yes we'd have won the game but it wouldn't have been a whitewash at that standard.
You can't argue that the quality was good on Friday, it was way off both teams high standards'"
It wasn't peak performance, but I'm not sure it was quite as far off as you think.
A lot of the more structural aspects of the game were pretty good from both sides. I think some loose execution at times (and more in passages than the whole game) let it down a bit. But no, obviously it wasn't Grand Final stuff in quality terms.
Although that said, it acquired a big match feel at times, which was pleasing as that was the first time a lot of our youngsters will have experienced that in senior grade, which will have beena good learning experience.
Sutcliffe looks like he's played SL for 10 years, and I was really impressed by how well Alex Foster kept his head up after a slightly shaky start.