Results went our way on the weekend with Souths, Brisbane, Manly and Penrith going down, though Moses being out for up to a month is a blip in a somewhat great week for the blue and gold's. JA will be picked to replace Moses, though i am not a massive fan of JA i think it is fair atm to pick him for a few reasons. No.1 he is in the 30 man squad, 2. He is the only other natural Halfback in our squad, 3. We need an organiser in order to allow Brown and Gutho to play their own game, moving either of them limits the game they are best at playing.
A win v Manly is a real chance due to the squad possibly being divided by the jersey scandal. Could we reap benefit of that divide? Whether those like it or not, JA will be the 7 on Friday night, with top 4 still alive we have to back him to get the job done. This is his chance to prove his worth starting, the next month of footy for JA with finals on the line and inconsistent performances and perhaps his coach/fathers job on the line will JA show that there is nepotism or is he in the squad for the wrong reasons? Let that play out, but for now we have to back him and hope for the best. If he performs, then why is that a bad thing? If he does well then that is another great junior Parramatta have developing, can never have enough good players.
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Well what choice do we have. I will accept it through gritted teeth though...
Of course I will be cheering regardless of who plays #7 but it's just unbelievably convenient that BA has built this squad to a point where the only option as cover for Moses is his son who is severely not up to it...
It's a bit of a joke but don't worry, next year the only other option as cover for Hodgson will be MA - watch this space...
didnt we just extend mitch rein another 12 months? and that other bloke hands? so we do have coverage for when (or should i say if) Hodgson gets injuired. Matt from my understanding is a few years away.
Multiple movements in players just seem to somehow all align to the sons getting opportunity, now and in the future. In a normal workplace, he'd be up on massive conflict of interest allegations.
I don't think it's gonna work.
would anyone here be suprised if going into next year BA decides we really have to revamp things and we go with
1 Gutho
4 D Brown
6 JA
7 Moses
Brace yourselves.
Honestly, i cant believe people havnt seen enough to make up their mind already.
If youd been watching carefully and knew what to look for, youd already know how things are about to turn out.
If people choose to support very poor decisions, that cost us another season, thats on them.
I certainly wont be, i not a fan of supporting nepotism, or putting family in front of team, or bad decisions that cost our club, i wont be part of it.
The kids not up to it, its not his fault, but im past the point of supporting this nonsense.
I gave him a go, supported him until it was clear he should be nowhere near 1st grade and was holding the. team back.
Id not boo jake, and i'll be cheering the team on, but watching him run out is a huge kick in the guts to long suffering fans.
Well he's going to there for a while yet
i dont think he is Trent, JA has no future at the club under a new coach.
His future here is only as long as BA, so he has a short term future here but zero long term future
Snake, when JA plays, we win 38.5% of games (5/13). When he doesn't play since his debut, we win 65.2% (15/23).
When he plays in the halves for 80mins we score less and concede more than 2018 Eels' spooners. The stats suggest the less minutes he plays, the more likely we are to win.
When he plays at half without Moses we score at 10.5ppg (winning 1/4) - and we also got smashed by the Roosters 0-28, and Panthers 6-40. The worst attacking team in the 2022 comp score at around 14ppg.
I suppose you could argue when any team lose one or two of their key spine players (Dylan or Moses) or you start rearranging the spine, they're likely to struggle more against good teams that are on. It's also a fairly small sample size (2021-22 present).
Nonetheless, I rewatched the extended highlights of the Knights game where we smashed them 39-2 to see if we could see some positive attacking play from Jake whom played the full game at five-eighth, with Moses at half and Dylan at centre. JA had practically had zero contributions in the final play leading up to any tries we scored. The only thing he did that had some involvement in the last try was a short pass to Moses before Moses set it up with an attacking kick for a good chase led by Penisini.
If we're relying on Jake to steer us around, God help us.
We're going to need a lot of things to go right and a lot of luck from the footy gods. This week, if Manly are a bit off-tilt, and if the forwards completely dominate, Dylan-Reed-Gutho are on steering us around and get enough support, we still could win if JA doesn't try to do anything flash - stays out of the way - no fancy passes, makes his tackles, supports and kicks as best he can. Does the basics the best he can. The more probable result is Manly take advantage of Jake in the team, and we lose and get a bit of a touch up.
Really don't see the "young gun" status the media bless him with, but maybe he'll prove many of us all wrong.
A silver lining in relation to this blog is it's hard to get statistically much worse - when he's in the halves for a full NRL game.
Nice post bro, its our lack of confidence behind him as a team thats the real worry for me, soon as he goes on our momentum and confidence plummets, we just look amateur and its clear it effects the team.
I really want/wanted JA to succeed and kill it for us but he's just not up to it.
Agree. Me too, mate. His debut was a warm and fuzzy moment, and I hoped for the best. But reality has set in.
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