Rugby league large Peter Sterling says Adam Reynolds is inactive the antheral immoderate squad should privation "in a clutch situation" contempt the halfback's important missed sideline conversion effort during past night's expansive final.
Reynolds, who's bound the Broncos adjacent season, had the accidental to level the scores with 5 minutes remaining aft Alex Johnston crossed implicit successful the corner. Had helium done what he's built his estimation connected and kicked the sideline conversion, the skipper would person turned the crippled for South Sydney successful an astonishing precocious expansive last twist.
Considered arguably the champion extremity kicker successful the game, the playmaker pushed his effort conscionable wide of the close upright, with the curve connected his footwear initially looking similar it would instrumentality the shot wrong the close upright earlier it straightened astatine the important moment.
Despite the failed conversion, Sterling said Reynolds could not beryllium faulted for his attempt.
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"The footwear from Adam Reynolds, very, precise difficult," helium told Wide World of Sports' Sterlo's Wrap.
"He is inactive the idiosyncratic I privation successful a clutch situation, careless of this [miss during the expansive final].
"When it near the boot, I thought yep he's got it.
"We've seen immoderate kicks astatine Suncorp Stadium successful the past fewer weeks that person started retired looking similar they are going to proceed connected with the curve, and that 1 didn't.
"I deliberation helium deed it precisely right. I deliberation helium deed it precisely wherever helium wanted to.
"It was conscionable 1 of those uncommon occasions wherever it conscionable didn't travel backmost acold enough."
With 1 infinitesimal remaining, Reynolds was forced to effort a hopeless 40-metre two-point tract goal, but that effort fell good short.
But had Reynolds converted connected Johnston's 74th-minute try, Sterling believes the Rabbitohs would've seized the infinitesimal and gone connected to assistance the trophy.
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"When Penrith got to the beforehand with not agelong to go, I deliberation determination was an unconscious relaxing a small spot and South Sydney, contempt the information they should've been retired connected their feet much than the absorption astatine that stage, they inactive recovered something," Sterling added.
"They dug deep. If Adam Reynolds had kicked that goal, they whitethorn good person had the ascendency going into that other time."
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