This was a powerful display once again where we blew the opposition off the park. Our forwards dominated and then our backs did the rest. We have now moved to out right premiership favourites. Focus is now on a Top 4 finish with one more win required. The minor premiership race is well and truely on but we need a slip up by Manly in the coming weeks and win all 3 games.

Well last time they played the Broncos is was a great solo try by GI that beat most of teh Broncos team on the way. This time it was a great rugby league try that could go down as one of the greatest. A chip kick from Reynolds with GI gathering who bumps off a few defenders passes to Sam Burgess who power into the line gets caught and spins and ofloads to a flying GI for a try who promptly celebrates with his classic Goanna crawl. A fitting try on the Close the Gap round.

Chris Grevsmuhl is being rewarded at the moment for his wok so far this year. He has been called up into the 19 man squad for First Grade. Not long now.

U20's continues to be game that provides crazy scoreline. You would thing being 28-10 up that we should have the game wrapped up. But alas no teh Broncos stormed howm to win the game 32-36. We are still in the runnin gfor the 8 but its becoming exteremly difficult and that loss really hurt their chances.

The latest talk is that U20's will revert back to the State Leagues due to the high costs of transporting teams across the country. This seems strange as teams at State League level are flying to Melbourne, PNG, New Zealnd and Perth already. So far the mooted proposal is for State Cups, U20 and U18 to be held on the same day. While this is a obvious push from the QRL it will be a issue for the NSWRL as half of NRL don't field a team at NSW Cup level but do field teams at U18 and U16 levels. And in reverse half of the NSW Cup teams don't have a U18 or U16 team. It can work in NSW if NSW based NRL teams field a NSW Cup, U20 and U18 team with Newtown, North Sydney, Perth and Fiji taking up slots vacated by the 3 QLD clubs and Melbourne. But those teams would need financial assistance to compete.

Statistically we dropped from the Manly game, and Brisbane would have got back into the game if it wasn't for some big errors at vital times. Completion rates improved to 78% our error count improved back to 8 and we conceeded 7 penalties. Souths Effective 1st tackle for the match dropped back to to 33.6m. Missed tackles were steady at 16 missed tackles this week. And our opposition offloads was poor at 12, second worst all year.

Looking at our left side defence - Johnston-Auvaa-Keary-McQueen (1-3-2-1) was dropped to 7 from 5 missed tackles. On the right side Tuqiri-Walker-Reynolds-Teo (1-0-1-0) improved to 2 from 3 missed tackles this week.

Our go forward was dropped back into the good range at 1463m. With Tom and Sam Burgess, Te'o, Johnston and Walker all making 10+m per run. With Tom and Sam Burgess, Luke, Inglis, Auva'a and Walker making more that 100+m in the match. With Tom Burgess making more than 200m. Defensively Te'o was our best in the tackling raking up 41 tackles. With Luke and Tom Burgess, Tyrrell, Te'o, Clark, Lowe, Picker, Walker and Inglis not missing a tackle.

Signing off for another week - the midweek Cyber View from the Hill