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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Soft 5 Bups, not like our team who are a soft 10.... Lol
DId i say Lane got a pass mark???? I cannot see where i said that. Only mention was Lane could love to be under Bennett that is it.
Well he seemed to escape your failure list, can I say by "implacation".
Look at my most disappointing, he is there.
Where did you hear he wants to come to Parra? That is news to me!
Need Sanders in no.7 because clearly DB doesn't cut it and need him to run.
Parra has the worst hooker in the comp. This is an area they need to address ASAP if they are to save their season. Neither Hands or Lussick are good enough. I think Gutho is best choice to play there and see how Blaize goes at his natural fullback.
Offa offers very little in the middle. Need Greig to provide more punch up the middle.
Matto doesn't want to be there, playing like Jane. Tualugi should replace Matto.
The funniest part of our forwards defence is that the fattest bloke on the field in junior Paulo was the only person with line speed at times. And he was actually completeling the tackle and not missing it like the other duds in this team.
You are talking about the big fat islander aren't you? I got no idea what you mean about line speed with him. Looked like he was sinking into the ground and jogging on the spot. All I ever see is hands on the heads or hips. We should try and move him while he still has value for a trade off.
There was a couple of times he ran out of the line when dolphins were started the set. Just found it funny how he would do that but we have forwards who couldn't even make a tackle let alone provide line speed.
It's pretty sad though, he has completely lost the dressing room. Or Moses is that valuable and inspiration able on the field we can't win without him.
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