Storm Wins

storm beat eels 23-16
amazing game I thought.

Eels fan blames the ref for the penalty on Billy Slater losing the ball resulting in a 1 point field goal. We should have won, said the thousands of Eels fans. I say maybe, could be, who knows, this is a pointless IF.
Without saying all the IFs that can happen or should happen. I thought is was a good final 9-10 weeks for the Eels during the season, then a very good finals campaign by the 8th placed Eels. They made it to the grand final. They played very well in the grand final game, they pushed the storm all the way. They compensate very well for their bad defense, and their attack have spark in a few moments during the game, they scored tries when mattered. well done to the Eels.

Congratulations to the Storm. They played their game very well. To tell you the truth, I never liked the way the Storm play the game, some say it's very structured (I never understand what that means). But they do have lucky break in the last few years in picking up young talent, inglis, turner, folau, slater, cronk, white, tolman, hoffman, johnson, smith. Almost the whole team started as a nobody and becomes a good player.

I am now convinced that is the recipe of a successful team in the age of salary cap. There is no point in picking up expensive players by buying from the market, example rooster, to some extent warriors, the titans as they boughts players in building the team, the rabbits, maybe even the bulldogs. The key for NRL team in the next few years at least, is to get a bit of luck in picking up good young players. For example, the storm, the eels this year (it may take 10 weeks before the youngster in mortimer and the rookie in robson gets a chance but didn't they do good in the back end of the season and in the finals), the broncos, manly, the dragons also have a few young players.

Wow, if we looked at the premiers of the last few years. Storm, Eagles, Broncos and Tigers. I don't think they bought any big name players to win the comp. It's either they have the players or young players playing out of their skin or both.