Sir Peter Leitch Club at MT SMART STADIUM, HOME of the MIGHTY VODAFONE WARRIORS
Sir Peter Leitch Club AT MT SMART STADIUM, HOME OF THE MIGHTY VODAFONE WARRIORS 27th September 2017 Newsletter #189 I Only Saw Half Of That Coming By David Kemeys Former Sunday Star-Times Editor, Former Editor-in-Chief Suburban Newspapers, Long Suffering Warriors Fan HE STORM were always going to get past the Broncos, but I was convinced the Cowboys had exhausted Ttheir luck, and tenacity, and would fall to the Roosters. Boy was I wrong – a new experience for me. There is no way the Cowboys should have made it to the big dance, it defies all logic. They were not even in the eight on the final day of the season, needing the Bulldogs, who were crap all year, to beat the Dragons on the last day – a result few predicted. But they have hung on like leeches in their run to the final, as we all predicted their demise. No side from eight, wins it, the experts say, especially not a Cowboys outfit without Johnathan Thurston. No one told them about Michael Morgan then. He was outstanding against the Roosters, the second best side all year – and the second best on Saturday night too. The other Cowboy who earned every penny of his salary was Jason Taumalolo – and fair play, I have often questioned whether anyone is worth that kind of money. I confess I was hoping the Roosters would make it, because they were 15th last year, which at least gives me some hope we could engineer that kind of turnaround, and we also beat them this year at Mt Smart, so if they were NRL champions, at least we could say we beat them.
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