For the life of me I can not understand why Brad used Will Smith for 3 minutes and another player for 15?
What a way to wear out your forwards and overall squad. There are 21 rounds to go and this fool is burning everyone out every week with minimal rest.
Its poor coaching and exposes our real lack of depth at the club. With an already faster game and a mounting injury toll around the NRL a bit of foresight and planning should be involved with every game. Yeah we won, but if we lose the next 4 cause we're tired we know why.
Every player loves a bye round, rest is good. Give it to the players (Except Lane, he does not deserve it)
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Maybe you should coach the team
There is no doubt we need big minutes from paulo, RCG and brown. Those players are now nsw quality and the gap between them and our bench is actually quite big compared to some other top teams.
This is obviously compounded when good middles such as Papalii and Niukore have had to play wider due to injuries. This has put huge pressure on kaufusi as well.
I think our pack and forward depth is awesome. Get Nuikore back into the forwards, Plenty of teams would love to have this pack and I am the first to admit I was wrong regarding Papalii replacing Evans. Papalii has been nothing short of awesome and so much better than Evans ever was.
EE, If you move Nuikore back to the forwards, who wears the 4. Our defence with Nuikore is so much better than with Waqa and I don’t think we lose anything in attack with his hard good lines and a good flick pass to his winger, as we have seen.
Our forwards are stacked already, our three quarters not so much.
Don't disagree with you for a minute mate. In fact your comment just supports what I am saying. It is not our forwards that are the issue or that lack depth, it is our backs. I posted to this effect the other day and people completely missed the point. All I can say if thanks heck we have Marata and what a wonderful job he has done, he is to be congratulated for that. However, IMO, it highlights a weakness that impacts the balance in the squad.
Remember we have 2 backs out injured, and Dunster not going so well.
It's always been BAs weakness and I think it's continuing.
Bench rotation needs addressing or the players will burn out again at the back end of 2021 or worse still injure themselves.
Spot on Brissy, plus the tigers came back at us 24-22, hard to put your second string back in when those that he would replace were going fine. Will Smith is an insurance policy should a back go down, or we are in front by plenty. Seems to be working out just fine i thought.
There's other ways to rest players as Gutherson was rested from a few training sessions to recover.
It takes 17 players to win a game not 13
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