Unfortunately so many players need to be dropped after this performance. Lets go down the list.
- Russel - How tf he didnt score that is beyond me. I actually believe he is a goot footy player but has no atheletic ability which means he gets exposed at NRL standards. He is like the opposite of W Blake who was blessed with so much Athletic ability but had zero footy skills.
- Harper - he was not bad tonight and actually had good carrys in the first half. But he simply needs to make more ball and all tackles when we are scrambling in defence. Probably unfair to drop him considering are replacements are worse.
- Asi - he will get rested anyway but the pass to Lane, 20m restart, tackle on Isaako (put his body in a horrible position).
- This is where we start the proper horrible pefromances which is the forward pack who are meant to be one of the best in the comp:
- Lussick: I will put my hand up and saying I thought he would be a good signing but fuck me ded he only had a good 2 weeks. He never puts our forwards on the front foot by drawing markers like top tier dummy halves. His crash balls and attempts from DH are useless. He offers worst first contact in defence than Mahoney. He is left on the floor so much, makes no attemtp to return to defensive lines and allows quick play the balls. Part of this is on BA for not having Hands on the bench. 35 tackles with 5 missed and 5 inffective.
- Carty - his worst pefromance in the blue and gold. Carty of the gold cost titans. Errors in attack and afraid to tackle in defence. It must be the injury to his ribs surely because at the start of the season he was folding people. His defence on kick returns was so bad he made Fuller looking like prime Inglis. His effort when Dolphins kept scoring was hopless. No effort to control the ruck or make tackles. Let him recover or if he is fine drop him to reggies after that.
- Moretti - when your role is to have a quick stint of impact you cannot be dropping the ball and missing tackles.
- Hopgood - first poor game in an eels jersey in defence. He put in the effort but just mssed 3 tackles and 3 ineffective tackles. Obviously would not drop him.
- Just quickly. I looked at Matto's number in defence and they were actually good. So was he poor in defence?
- When addressig the forward pack as a whole ther ability to control the ruck in the second half was horrible. If you watch it, our markers are called not square so many times because we simply could not win a tackle. So with the markers ruled out of the play they just kept attacking behind the play the ball with JMK and we got fucked from their with poor efforts. I thought Carty and Moretti were poorin this part
- Our attack was pedestrian. I want to blame DB but after knowing BA and than hearing Barret at halftime I think it is the coaching staff. It looks like they did not expect many points in the game. So were they directing DB to follow a horrible game plan. Cause DB barely ran and our ruck speed in attack was poor as we spread the bal of slow play the balls. Oly danger we had was off ofloads.
- Depending on the performances in NSW Cup, I would be going with
- Gutho
- Russel
- Penisni
- Harper (move Simmo to centre and Sivo to wing if Sivo somehow finds form)
- Simmo
- DB
- Sanders
- RCG
- Hands (give Lussick a game or two in NSW Cup. Than I would be using Hands and Lussick combo for the rest of the year with Hands on the bench. Neither are capable of playing 80mins every week. Hands will be fine playng 80min against Manly since Manly attack on the edges and DH normally get less tackles against them)
- Joe O
- Tualagi
- Lane
- Hopgood
- Matto
- Paulo
- Doorey
- Talagi (I think carrying an outside back against Manly is critical. They attack out wide so need some cover their).
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Agreed Coryn. We need something as the season is slipping and we have Manly and Melbourne coming up soon.
I watched Easts and Melbourne the other night and they put in each and every week. Simple as that.
If we put Sanders in when we should of, which was against the tigers. We'd be winning games by now.
We don't have a strong dominant forward leader who will get stuck in when the chips are down. Hopgood has been good but we need a strong prop. Paulo is not a capt for me.
The R and R should be looking for a worker backrow we and strong prop. And BA needs to bring in a change or two to the fwds. Bugger if I know who.
Maybe he also needs to give Sanders a game or two.
Three poor games - Wests where we derailed ourselves and Canberra and Dolphins where we were soft - simple as that.
The other issues are we have no one really banging down the door from Reggie's and also we have not filled the roster
The forward pack is past the use by date, agree with Paulo. 10 minutes of good footy doesn't make you a good first grade prop which some people forget. Especially with his insane prize tag.
The season is gone, so I wouldn't be putting Sanders in. No point he is leaving and doesn't want to be part of the club. I would put blaize at fullback, gutho 5/8 and Brown 7. Harper can go to waterboy and bring in another young kid into the back line. Russell had a shocker but him and penisini were traveling alright together, give it a couple more games and if he doesn't get his shit together he is out as well.
You didn't name Lane, who's been horrible for us most of his career. Lazy, no effort, dumb. He can take his documentary and go as far away from our club as possible.
As for the hooker position. Matt Arthur is legit the best hooker at our club, and should be playing first grade. He's the one stand out in cup, more so than Sanders. Time in first grade will only make him better. I dare say the only reason he isn't in already is because of how everyone treated Jake.
Whatever happens , we need to stop playing blackfellas in the NT for fucks sake.
Just a tad racist
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