I cannot believe all of these blogs about bring back Ice, Stefano and the like. Yes, I would love them both back in the squad, but gees. Our forwards are far from the problem with achieving the ultimate winning squad. Wake up and smell the coffee. Injuries and suspensions killed us this year. Plain and simple fact. RCG's suspension and injury destroyed us. He is without doubt our pack leader in my opinion, and has taken over Junior for his consistent efforts and impact. He has been a standout for us for the past few seasons. Junior, either needs a wake up call, or to be used differently. I suspect as age goes on and the game changes he can no longer sustain the brutality of 60 to 80 mins every game including reps. He still has a valuable place in the squad but he cannot keep being run into the ground with stubborn coaching. We lost LANE for so many games through freakish and hopefully one time repeats of injuries. It is just crazy. We need him on the field and he was a massive loss. Add to this the development of Greig, again interupted by injury, Doorey, again interupted by injury. I can type endless paragraphs regarding what has potentially been our most impacted season as a result of injuries. I personally cannot remember a season so bad regarding injuries and suspensions.
Remove the suspensions and injuries, I stand by the fact that we have one of the most competitive and talented forward packs in the comp! Yes, we cna challenge the way that they are coached to play, but our forwards are not the issue.
I stand by Gutho, he is the heart and soul of this squad. I rate him better than any other, given our squad and his consistent efforts.
We need another quality centre and another winger, until those, that the Club have developed are up to it. Yep, will also add to another blog, unless the clueless management wake up to third party deals, utlised by other clubs, then we will never be in the race, despite good intentions.
But hey, the NRL is legit!
EE
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We need some speed in the backline.
Our fastest players are our halves.
Our wingers and centres are sluggish, not expolsive enough
I agree with BA as well, discipline let us down this year
I dont remember the last time the club had a total of 18 weeks with players on the sideline
Matto 3
Sivo 4
RCG 4
Dylan 7
Dylan hurt us the most as it was just as the team was hitting form after beating the bunnies.
Definitely need some big, strong, fast wingers and a good centre of the same calibre and we need a decent back up utility player who can confidently cover a 9, 6 or 7 and possibly a decent back up fullback in case Gutherson is injured. Forgot probably a change of coaching style instead of front end loading and chasing collisions
The style wasn't the problem it was the execution a lot of errors timing and discipline
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