Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon

McGuire. Showed alot of doubters he can still cut it today. Thought he was ace.

Peacock for me deserved MOM. He is a bit of a phenomenon. Plenty of props play a lot older now but peacock doesn't loose any quality. Morley is still playing but for me is a shadow of his old self. Peacock is just a machine. His mental toughness is different class.
Mags, sinny and ablett my other choices. Sinny seemed back to his big game best controlling the game and if a last ditch desparTe tackle is required it was sinny and JP there more often than not

Peacock's first stint was nearly 60 minutes, for pretty much all of which he was the most effective forward on the pitch. Absolutely deserved MOM.

McGuire was superb, Ablett was superb, Sinfield and Burrow played well. Moon would have been my joint 2nd with McGuire. Closed Russel down from kicks all afternoon, shut down lots of half breaks and half chances in the first half, notched a try and an assist (both pretty straightforward admittedly). Also influential in closing Ratchford's space down.

Not sure about him looking vulnerable. We got caught short-handed on that flank a couple of times in the first half which he snuffed out.

IMO Moon was again right up there with our best players. He took his try well running a good line to fix his marker then good feet to change direction so his marker was on the wrong foot. He created the space for Hall's first try with very quick hands after committing his marker and crucially putting Monaghan in two minds for split second and along with Watkins did some crucial defending and blotted out their centres for most of the game.

McGuire for me. Looked dangerous throughout and benefited from a rock solid team effort. His execution of some brilliant money balls were the difference.