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"Yeah, but throwing a regulation pass to Sivo who then either strolled across unopposed or bashed thru 3 guys counts as a try assist.
No playmaker duty involved."
No playmaker duty involved."
"Whilst on the topic of juniors my nephew played on the wing for city U16 v country today and grabbed a couple of tries. He is a parra fan but contracted to penrith. "
"Thanks pops
P.S. Hope your wife is doing well and wish her a speedy recovery"
P.S. Hope your wife is doing well and wish her a speedy recovery"
"Randy, you're 100% correct lol"
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Absolutely Bup, that was interesting from Mitch. It's great to get some genuine insights this season from Mitch, Junior & JR in pressers.
Agree, the foundations are building and like you, get the feeling it might click sooner rather than later - possibly towards end of year, feel we might go on a bit of a run?
The errors are frustrating, but they are already improving outside of two players, and where errors are occurring is also improving - in oppositions half, as opposed to ours.
Iongi is clearly working hard behind the scenes as the last two weeks he has looked far more comfortable under kick pressure, a FB's errors are far more costly, so its very good to see his confidence grow.
But errors are easy fixes in the scheme of things? Attitudes, defence, 1%ers, not so much?
There have been monumental improvements in defence - structure, communication, patience, energy, contact, work ethic, fight & all the 1%ers. Everything.
That is exactly what you & I, and plenty of others, were hopeful would be the first point of call for Ryles & while its not perfect, its clear as day how far its come & continues to come.
People say Newcastle are shit, fair, but in seasons past we found ways to let shit teams through us or around us, we gave them ways to work themselves into the game.
Last night the Eels built genuine scoreboard pressure, and while Knights aren’t great, they still have attack in them & we closed that down.
Obviously, a lot there to improve on, but if JR & Co. can achieve these improvements in defence & attack with a side this far under the cap, they're very positive signs for whats ahead with a stronger roster?
We tread carefully of course, but Im with you Bup, I think it will click sooner than we though.
Your last sentence NoS about Walker. I have to agree. Just watching him choose when to run, when to pass short and when to go out the back. He never throws pressure passes short or out the back. He makes the right choices all the time.
Firstly, im impressed you got to the last sentence of my dribbling on, EA.
But yep, 100%.
There were a few moments last night that really stood out for me - the 1 on 1 steal was great, but also taking that tackle on the 5th & ensuring we challenged because he'd seen the Knights winger get a (minor) touch.
Just the little things he does, and like you say, he always seems to make the right call. Just didn't realise how important he would be.
And yet despite all that Coryn, we were dudded against Cronulla and blew many chances to beat the dolphins. We should be on a 4 game winning streak and on 12 points tied in 5th place on the ladder, go figure. There's no way this team is a spoon team if we can keep our key players on the park.
BAs pressers had a common theme which were never addressed properly. Is Ryles starting to show a presser theme ? and if so? how can he address it?
Maybe Ryles shouldn't start a sentence or answer with uuuuummmmmmm and aaaahhhhhhhh
The improvement is certainly coming along however, some players are clearly not up to Ryles standard whilst others are and somewhat frustrated by this, It's obvious on Moses face when errors occur he will death stare the offending player and as captain he needs to uphold the coaches standard, Lomax was great last night - pure quality but could'nt hide his disappointment at times, he seemed underwhelmed by the mistakes, Penisini service and natural ball hogging play - will cause an issue for Lomax who is ultra competitive, if Pensinin continues to mostly die with the ball. Bailey has proven he can add extra in our squad, very happy to have him extend.
Ryles is putting a broom through the playing roster by weeding out the players he doesnt want or can't contribute to our new playing style / standard / culture, we can all see that and the future is very encouraging. Our war chest is building nicely and we are seeing our promising juniors finally given an opportunity to press for NRL, it's looking promising. We potentially land Galvin and our 1,6, 7 and 9 look top notch, and with our war chest we should deliver a few quality recruits that fit our squad.standard. Well done to Ryles and his coaching staff.
Great win! Super impressed and that's what you call a complete complete performance! Would have loved to see the mighty Eels keep the scoreboard to zero! No biggie
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