Well done Titans!
Found themselves a coach who is getting a tonne of improvement out of his team. A spare parts team tonight that had very sound defensive structures and were harder for the Dragons to break than our full strength side. A team captained by Jamal Fogerty who couldn't even get a run over plebs like Will Smith at Parra.
Must be nice! Yes i'd rather be in the top 4 but looking a little deeper. They are on the right track, we are not.
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Brad is that you?
I'd explain it to you but not sure if your brain can see past the win/ loss records mate.
It doesnt mean nothing. The game is about winning and losing but people with half a brain can see a little deeper.
We are a team that need things going our way to win. When things don't suit us, we have no baseline in our performance. Not every team is up every week, but the good teams that have been together a long time have sound structures that enable them to compete week in - week out. We have had pretty much the same squad together for 18 months , bar a couple of high quality additions. The good, well coached teams don't let us have things our own way. BA bangs on about fast starts all week, a team holds us at the start..and then what?
We still can't get our defence right. We can be torn apart on both edges despite minimal changes there. We'd be an absolute shambles if we had to call up new combinations to put in there.
Our attack has regressed with next to no key injuries. We have regularly struggled to score points, especially against the big teams despite having one of the better attacking spines in the comp. Yes we can lap a team on our day but we've never looked dangerous against quality defensive sides. We can't build a game. We look like we don't go into games with any plan of what we are going to attack and how we are going to do it. We are coached to play our own style and if it works it works, if it doesn't next week we'll spend more time practicing it and try and do it better. Our attack , like our form, is streaky. We can get hot for short periods in games and put points on but we also go long periods of time where we have no idea. 60+ halves of 0 points in BA's tenure. Absurd stat.
Our coach said Takas was too slow to be playing in the centres 3 years ago and tried to convert him into a forward...but still hasn't found a depth replacement better than him to play there should injuries / lack of form warrant it. As I said to you in another thread , which you couldn't grasp, Bevan French is the only outside back we've bought through our system in 7 YEARS thats contributed anything in first grade. The only other player in our system in all that time BA has attempted to bring through is Ethan Parry. Where do we go if we have an outside back injury? Takas or George Jennings. Both below average players that have hung around our squad for years.
In saying that IF we get a dry track, a fast start, the match up that suits us , at home .. we're every chance. If any of these don't happen we have nothing to fall back on. You need to face it mate, save yourself the heartache. BA is a long way off the better coaches in the comp. We aren't coached well. We can win games and get streaky but we don't have a premiership level ceiling and won't whilst ever BA is coach.
I hope this explains a little of it for you.
So you’re saying IF we have perfect conditions, even though we are 12-4 in a myriad of conditions.
You put it best when you said “The game is about winning and losing”. Couldn’t have said it better..
Look, seriously, Titans are looking for supporters. There’s an opening just for you.
That comment is as well structured and thought out as a Brad Arthur game plan. If youre happy with how we're travelling, even at 12-4, then I don't know what to tell you.
I feel the same way as you . Great job Brissy for your work on various blogs giving it to the negative blow ins
Well done Titans. Great to see them win.
Leave will alone
Not his fault Clayton’s mark 2 is coach
How good is Fogerty going, I was surprised to see he was captain today. Improved a lot since he chose to leave the Eels
Look we all get it, Parra haven’t time their run.
This should be closed, your topic should be a comment in one of the other hater blogs.
Tell us something new eh.
Titans are playing well, especially considering their roster is average.
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