If some of you people can check in your hipocracy after last week, it may be you will be able to see your own biases.
Have a read of what Pro Daz said about scapegoats. You called it well Daz and it showed up how people change given circumstances and whinging.
I suggested we would possibly not win another game this year, but it does not stop me from supporting them. Most of our stalwarts were in that position and a week is a long time when you have blue and gold blood.
I would like to say that our middle is much more capable than we have given credit for. We played like a hunting pack and moved up behind Moses kicks in the backline and some of you owe an apology or two to Junior and JDB. Of course MON has been extended for 10 years with options, but everyone now supports that and the ones that said Jason Ryles cannot coach are out in their backyards looking for holes to hide in BUT we all know "they will be back" wagging their tales behind them.....next time!
Moses literally strangled/suffocated them to death, those Dog forwards must have been sick and tired turning around after Moses kicked them to death.
Look nobody expected us to win that, and I didn't bet on the game, but I would not of backed us with gifted money, styles of play that various teams play makes a big difference to our team.....we currently struggle against any team with pace and dogs showed today they are short in that respect.
Regards to Mallee57 who put shit on us all week as part of his coming on to this site, knocking everything he could about the coach and admin staff......a week in a Rugby League comp is showing up like a week in politics........ back to the Kennell for you Mallee and a special call out to Sir Col The Mushroom (up in the sky) who was a great character and had some wonderful relationships with the Dog's supporters.
Some one said Parramatta is a boring side, not bloody likely, we are rocks and diamonds but never its ever a boring experience supporting Parramatta.
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Volkman is grade 2
Poppa how did you feel about Pryke. Mataele was great but Pryke i felt just tackled anything that wiggles.
I am embarrased to say it LB, I could not judge him. I looked for him and everyone said he tackled everything that moved so all I can say, that is exactly the sort of player we need....he seems a little slight, will he fill out? I think I was too busy worrying that we would start making mistakes, so the fact I didn't see him make any is a positive.
The good news is that we showed we have middles, that does not mean we have to rush out and spend 1.2m on a Keon .....yes that authority is important, but at the end of the day, its stack e'm up and knock them down. Moses kicking turned them around and I can remember Ivan Cleary going back a few years ago after Parra beat them saying "we got kicked to death" have never forgot that....hopefully they won't have to have a crisis every second week to do what they did today.
Today we went back to the grind, a combination of that grind and the good attack we developed last year put us in good stead.....we had forgotten that the "grind" is hard work.
We still need a weapon against against teams like the Titans and Dolphins (regardless where they sit in the comp) who can run around us, notwithstanding the grind.....there is one other thing about this modern game, players like marky marky, coates, warbrick etc are match winners, we had our version with Lomax last year and whilst I am not going back there we have to find these players some where because we haven't got them in our juniors, Coryn is the answer, finding the formula builds's the answer, no point in reverse engineering it without the formula.
Marky Mark I am now seeing as nearly impossible to stop. Latrelle is of course another one of those freaks that is hard to mark out....I don't like the man but he has a skil set which is nearly incomparable.
Interestingly if those player's are lost due to injury it really brings them back to a mortal world. A bit like Manly with Tommy Turbo, different team with and without him.
Sorry about the convulted answer about Pryke, I will trust you guys that he was impressive!
He came on and was running back and forth like a jackrabbit. He even went from side to side chasing the ball. Just a goer on defence and it is what we badly need. If anything i do not think he would go a miss starting at 13.
Mataele even showed we have some depth there for middles. As you say yeah still go out and get a top middle but our depth is maybe not as bad. Pryke and Mataele performed when many gave up on them coming through. We also have Brown to debut.
In terms of kicking, even Volkman kicked well. Had a beautiful stab kick to the corner with JAC chasing down Montoya.
It's amazing what a week of league can do. Great effort, contact and heart. Things mostly went our way today. I was pissed at last week now I'm even more so considering what we are capable of.
But well said about turning up for them. I said last week I was pissed and embarrassed but would still turn up to Dogs game as that's who I am. I did and got rewarded for it as it was great game to go to. It's been a long wait but when that title finally comes the wait makes it even better.
I will say shout out to Pryke, bloke would tackle a steam train.
Respect for turning up and supporting them.
It's something i love doing. Dad and i used to go all the time and feel like he is there with me despite the result so added motivation to going.
My Dad passed away in 2010 and before that I would ring him every Monday morning, pretending to be Ray Price or Arthur Beetson discussing the game.....we were all in Qld since 1980 so we didn't get to watch many game unless we flew down to Sydney for a GF. We did see a lot of our team in 1960's to 80's just the same.
That's 46 years in Qld and still bleed "blue and gold".
Williams needs to now stay in the back row and have Moretti, Sam Tuivaiti, Pryke and Paulo as the rotational props,
Nanva had a great game, not sure how to fit him in now that Russell will.be back
Kelma cannot br in the team from now. I think thats it for him at Parramatta
Tean vs Manly
1. Joash
2. Fox
3. Penasini
4. Russell
5. Nanva/Kelly
6. Volkswagen
7. Moses
8. Moretti
8. Da Silva
10. Paulo
11. Williams
12. Guymer
13. Debelin
14. Walker
15. Sam Tuivaiti
16. Pryke
17. ????
Smith may be out
We need another Hooker, not sure if Da Silva can get full 80. Maybe he will be fine but not ideal incase Da Silva goes off at any point. At least with Joash you could get by for 10-15mins at Hooker, but already at Fullback.
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