The 10 to 5 penalty count was luck. Half the Broncos penalties were from ridiculous shit you can't replicate because it is was ridiculous bounces or ricochets or players not expecting them to do something so stupid and as a result a lucky unlikely outcome occurs. They also got away with a lot of penalty offences, but that wasn't luck. It was the referee giving them the rub of the green like they always do.Madmya wrote:Yes, Boyd's beautiful cut-out ball to set up the opener, Milford stepping three big players to score the winner and Oates' finishing perfection were all luck. So was the 10-5 penalty count!
ie. Last tackle. Broncos have fucked another set entirely. Ball gets a hail mary pass to Josh McGuire who is forced to kick it. It hits Paul Gallen and redeflects into Jack Bird who is in an offside position. A shit set ends with a lucky penalty... at this point the Broncos were on the ropes having lost a huge lead down to 2 points.
Ben Hunt on the first tackle puts in a shit grubber to the goals... it's a nothing kick but Broncos collide with a Sharks player and get a penalty when Ben Hunt fucked up.
Another shit kick is rewarded with a penalty when Jack Bird fumbles a crossfield kick into a teammate... he's facing his own goal line and it goes over his shoulder into an offside player.
Meanwhile the Broncos got away with holding players down by the head as they stood up. Kicking the ball out of players hands while they were laying on the ground and as per usual they got away with 90% of their forward passes. Only one was called and there were a dozen or more that travelled further forward then that.
The things you mentioned were good plays... not everything was luck. But most of those happened after the Broncos got some bullshit lucky bounce of the ball to give them another set. Milfords try came after the accidental offside from McGuire being forced to kick the ball and getting the luckiest result you could want from an unplanned kick.
Sharks had one lucky bounce go their way... that Maloney try. It bounced too high and wildly for Bird to get a hand to it and knock on. Allowing Maloney to clean it up and get a try that was inches away from being a knock on.
Penrith looked horrible
