Sunday, February 22, 2004
Dykes shows hot stuff
Adam Dykes stunning return to form in 2004 has continued with the Parramatta playmaker laying on one try as well as scoring a superb solo try.
After trailing eight nil, Matt Peterson scored after some David Vaeliki delivered a "perfect pass", said the AAP report on the game.
Dykes then managed to slide a grubber in-goal past the Warrior defence which was dived on by Vaeliki. Luke Burt was unable to land either conversion, leaving the Eels two points behind at quarter time.
However, soon after resuming, Dykes displayed the skill that will have Parra fans salivating over the prospect of going into the 2004 season with a red-hot playmaker.
According to the official Parra Eels website Dykes scored "a superb solo effort that saw him beat more than 4 defenders on his way to the line", while the AAP said that Dykes showed "some deft footwork and surprising speed " in scoring the try.
Big winger Eric Grothe then "muscled his way" over, said AAP, after picking up a loose ball.
In the second half, Luke O'Dwyer who was trialling for a contract, "poked between a couple of defenders and served up a heady offload for centre Jame Lyon to score the matchwinner in the 59th minute", the Sun Herald reported.
That newspaper quoted Smith as saying: "I'm pretty happy with the way we muscled up in the physical aspects of the game and the we forced some errors out of them".
"It was like no one told the players it was a pre-season game".
Smith said, in a quote posted to the office Parra Eels site that the Warrors "are a tough physical side and we more than matched them in that department tonight, in fact I think we got on top of them. We played some good footy and there is some enthusiasm in what we did, but we have to crank it up to face the Tigers".
Adam Dykes stunning return to form in 2004 has continued with the Parramatta playmaker laying on one try as well as scoring a superb solo try.
After trailing eight nil, Matt Peterson scored after some David Vaeliki delivered a "perfect pass", said the AAP report on the game.
Dykes then managed to slide a grubber in-goal past the Warrior defence which was dived on by Vaeliki. Luke Burt was unable to land either conversion, leaving the Eels two points behind at quarter time.
However, soon after resuming, Dykes displayed the skill that will have Parra fans salivating over the prospect of going into the 2004 season with a red-hot playmaker.
According to the official Parra Eels website Dykes scored "a superb solo effort that saw him beat more than 4 defenders on his way to the line", while the AAP said that Dykes showed "some deft footwork and surprising speed " in scoring the try.
Big winger Eric Grothe then "muscled his way" over, said AAP, after picking up a loose ball.
In the second half, Luke O'Dwyer who was trialling for a contract, "poked between a couple of defenders and served up a heady offload for centre Jame Lyon to score the matchwinner in the 59th minute", the Sun Herald reported.
That newspaper quoted Smith as saying: "I'm pretty happy with the way we muscled up in the physical aspects of the game and the we forced some errors out of them".
"It was like no one told the players it was a pre-season game".
Smith said, in a quote posted to the office Parra Eels site that the Warrors "are a tough physical side and we more than matched them in that department tonight, in fact I think we got on top of them. We played some good footy and there is some enthusiasm in what we did, but we have to crank it up to face the Tigers".
