Lussick on bench for next week and maybe v Penrith won't hurt. We bring Smith off and defence suffers. Lussick is not the best defensive player, Smith and Hands are better, but he can get by for 20 odd minutes.
Smith can then take full 80 again for last few weeks.
Get rid of a few of the Park footballers we have and we will be on our way , good win and a good coaching job by JR .
Eli Stephens > Frankie FongJune 22, 2025 at 8:33pm
Agree the shell of a good team is there, it's the recruitment of the big names who can take them over the top that's the issue. Ryles doing great with what he has
Exactly Fongi. And when you think how much salary cap we have on the sidelines, and adding Lane , Matterson, Ofehengaue and Cartwright who were all ba favourites and aren't in the team one way or another, it's been a great coaching effort by Ryles, especially in defence. But he also isn't afraid to give the boys some freedom in attack either.
We probably have 4 million dollars on the sidelines easy
Eli Stephens > Cʜɪᴇғy MclovinJune 22, 2025 at 8:54pm
Credit the few older players we have leading the way to, Ado Lomax Junz and Williams laying the platform
"Stop it Hawkins isn't in the same area code as anything you've mentioned on Moses.
As soon as Moses is back it's back to reserve grade for Hawkins.He's doing a good job but please enough of this he should be 6 next year.JRs shown his hand what he…"
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Yeah and Lussick experience valuable with our spine so young and no Moses currently. Good to have an older head in the mix
Lussick on bench for next week and maybe v Penrith won't hurt. We bring Smith off and defence suffers. Lussick is not the best defensive player, Smith and Hands are better, but he can get by for 20 odd minutes.
Smith can then take full 80 again for last few weeks.
Get rid of a few of the Park footballers we have and we will be on our way , good win and a good coaching job by JR .
Agree the shell of a good team is there, it's the recruitment of the big names who can take them over the top that's the issue. Ryles doing great with what he has
Exactly Fongi. And when you think how much salary cap we have on the sidelines, and adding Lane , Matterson, Ofehengaue and Cartwright who were all ba favourites and aren't in the team one way or another, it's been a great coaching effort by Ryles, especially in defence. But he also isn't afraid to give the boys some freedom in attack either.
We probably have 4 million dollars on the sidelines easy
Credit the few older players we have leading the way to, Ado Lomax Junz and Williams laying the platform
Didn't look terrible and he has pretty clean record ...maybe a week.
Settle for 2 weeks hopefully, he landed ok coulda been far worse.