Where are the people who did a victory lap last week?
We all should've known what was coming next.
Middles soft and hitting like pillows . No line speed and a player in our defensive line with absolutely no lateral speed or ability to make NRL level decisions . Back on the roller coaster next week .. do yourselves a favour though guys . As much as we all want us to win and will be happy to be proven wrong .. over the moon in fact .. BA is never going to coach a team to a top 4 (prelim or better ) end of season finish . We either get proactive as a club and stop tolerating this inconsistency and 2nd week exits by getting new ideas in or we start our slide down the ladder.
Jake is not yet (and probably never will be ) and NRL level talent . It's absurd he's being asked to start games at halfback at this time of year.
Souths have beaten us the exact same way for 5 years and this dope has not get an answer . Not one . They do nothing different and neither do we .
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Yep over it
He's not an NRL level half , no . But he was far from our worst performer tonight. It the senior guys that let us down tonight and it's been that way everytime the kid has played. And that's been my argument all along. Last week proved that . When they stood up and did their fucking jobs Jake was able to play exactly how you'd expect a decent young rookie to perform. When those guys don't do their job they're letting him down , not the other way around. BA obviously knows the kid can do a job however that's dependant on the other blokes putting in.
He's not an nrl half may as well just leave it at that. And yes he was our worst player. In attack and defence.
Stats say you're wrong.
What stats? Our edge defence where he defended was terrible. He hasn't got the lateral speed to check and slide. Penisini was trying to cover him all game. In attack - well he's a pedestrian. Got absolutely smashed again when he tried to run it. I think it's actually a health risk to him to be playing at this level
The stats that say Reed dominated in all the wrong end of the important defensive stats , ditto errors . If you're going to slag the kid making claims , at least be aware of how bad thise around him were too.
I agree with this also to an extent. It would be hard for any half to hold their own with a pack that was run right through with absolutely zero intensity. Our defence was waiting for the souths players to hit the line . Reed Mahoney hasnt put his shoulder into a tackle all season. All well and good but its masking over the Jake problem. I dont think anyone is here to beat the kid up or blaming him for the loss but its so obviously he is light years away from being NRL level in his play.
Kudos to him for the pass over Saab and the clever kick for the Penisini try but there are major problems with our squad depth if he is our only option. I think to a degree you could mask his lack of movement ability if he was a highly intelligent defender but he holds too long and the defenders around him have no confidence in him. BA can (rightly) blame the lack of physicaloty and our forwards being marshmellow soft but its masking the Jake problem.
I agree with this post.
I expect the strongest 17 the club can assemble each week. JA at 7 is not that.
Gutho in the halves with Perham / Simonsson/ Russell at FB is by far the stronger side.
Against Manly Brown and Gutho were the dominant halves in attack. After that good win it appears it was decided that JA should be given the reins. He's rubbish
Totally agree Mutt. JA in not one of the strongest 17 the club has. But I think made it that way but 'removing' any other options to play as back-up half. I think BA is totally blinded by being a father to JA than being a rational coach. As it is and with the way JA is playing, there are other players who could been doing that job a little better. As said many times in this forum, BA is not helping Jake's career by playing him in the first grade.
With all of the comments here, I am just wondering what inputs the assistant coaches are making in the team selection?
Old mate, JA is trash. Against Manly, BA had Brown run the side and ease JA into it. JA threw a specy pass that came off and a very good short kick. So this week, BA decides this is JA's team and he runs it. First half Brown is nowhere while JA runs the side with 2 crap 7 tackle set kicks, kicks down Johnsons throat without him having to move. Cody licking his lips seeing JA in front of him and beating him twice. Second half Brown takes more control and things are a bit better.
This team do not look like a bonded team, I watch them in the change room before they run out, the hand shakes and hugs are very limp, this team is unhappy and not unified.
The most obvious change would have been Gutho in the halves with Brown and any one of Russell, Simmo, Perham at 1. Now it doesn't matter as we are done and dusted.
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