Game Day vs Donkeys

[Defer to the coifed]

Lolz

 

[Defer to the coifed]

We miss ennis badly
And barba

That's the difference

It is the most evident thing. The problem is, the gun players who were doing those 1% things last year & even halfway through this year, have now realised, we dont have Ennis & more importantly, Barba at the back.
When you you are a player & you know the players now in those 2 position are not a scratch, on who were there last year, the 1% plays stop. eg. Gal was absolutely lazy last night. His worst game I have ever seen. He played that game with his eyes closed almost. On autopilot.
Seggy has been too slow to fit in. But Ennis took quite a few & Maloney took over half the season last year, to even look reasonable. But by now, they all know.
Seg aint going to get there & Brailey doesnt have it.
Holmes is 8 years away from being Barba class.
The players know, they are looking for easy options .
Only a miracle game from Holmes & Seg next week can turn this around now.

 

[Stake Removed]

From last night positive was Holmes, he was actually giving us field positions from kicks to the 30 and 40, this was more then the Broncs, it broke down from there.

I do believe we miss Brailey, crisp from dummy half and can bloody tackle.

Paulo must play he gives us options in attack.

We also seem to have a few players not interested, a few of them played SOO, if thats how origin effects you, then stand down from it, or move on from the sharks

 

[bluefox68]

Being at the game, you see stuff you don't see on TV...
Segeyaro repeatedly took forever to get back onside after the Broncos kicked - literally walking slowly... This from an interchange player!!!

Result - under-7s stuff - 'Who's going to dummy half?'

 

[Stake Removed]

Being at the game, you see stuff you don't see on TV...
Segeyaro repeatedly took forever to get back onside after the Broncos kicked - literally walking slowly... This from an interchange player!!!

Result - under-7s stuff - 'Who's going to dummy half?'

You could notice that on TV as well but excellent point, the dummy halves need to be Brailey when fit, till then Nu Brown, with Paulo off the bench

 

[coolumsharkie]

Should ask the club for my money back for last night, thank fk for the casino. At least someone was winning

 

[isaiah]

It is the most evident thing. The problem is, the gun players who were doing those 1% things last year & even halfway through this year, have now realised, we dont have Ennis & more importantly, Barba at the back.
When you you are a player & you know the players now in those 2 position are not a scratch, on who were there last year, the 1% plays stop. eg. Gal was absolutely lazy last night. His worst game I have ever seen. He played that game with his eyes closed almost. On autopilot.
Seggy has been too slow to fit in. But Ennis took quite a few & Maloney took over half the season last year, to even look reasonable. But by now, they all know.
Seg aint going to get there & Brailey doesnt have it.
Holmes is 8 years away from being Barba class.
The players know, they are looking for easy options .
Only a miracle game from Holmes & Seg next week can turn this around now.

you just arent in the same sentence as the storm and broncs this year. its an obvious gf if the raiders cant get going. broncs and storm both have young forwards playing for feeder clubs that are better than 4 or 5 of the forwards you used last night.

 

[txta2]

Gal and the coach don't seem overly worried. A few things need fixing,but one thing that frustrated me was players over running the player passing the ball. Oh and Chad Townsend skills are shocking

 

[txta2]

you just arent in the same sentence as the storm and broncs this year. its an obvious gf if the raiders cant get going. broncs and storm both have young forwards playing for feeder clubs that are better than 4 or 5 of the forwards you used last night.

I disagree. It's there somewhere they just have to find it. Players like Maloney and Bird injured doesn't help. And players are way down in form like Graham chiko and Chad
Sharks still have the best back row in the comp so you can keep your feeder club forwards thanks

 

[Stake Removed]

Gal and the coach don't seem overly worried. A few things need fixing,but one thing that frustrated me was players over running the player passing the ball. Oh and Chad Townsend skills are shocking

After watching CT now for a few years, its obvious he is not the lead half he is the sidekick, he either dosent want to take control or does not know how, and if Maloney not at his best he cant perform.

The year at Warriors playing outside Johnson, they were going ok, Johnson got injured it meant CT was the lead they didnt win another game.

If you have a look at some younger halves Taylor GC, Cleary Panthers they both look already to have gone past CT in ability and knowledge of the game

Honestly we all can read CT's play, even when he takes on line he dosent sprint through it or power through it, its more rolls to line takes tackle

 

[Defer to the coifed]

Thats rubbish. All of those guys are hit & miss as lead half. Same as Chad. Same as everybody. Cronk goes missing for months. Thurston is the most reliable & even he goes missing.

 

[Feki is bae]

We need to find a dynamic fullback at all costs. It's vital in the modern game. Last year we had Barba, we win, no coincidence. I would pay a mil a year to get Barba back any day.

 

[toomuchsoup]

BRING-BACK-BAR-BA!
BRING-BACK-BAR-BA!
BRING-BACK-BAR-BA!

Chant it with me lads!

 

[Stake Removed]

BRING-BACK-BAR-BA!
BRING-BACK-BAR-BA!
BRING-BACK-BAR-BA!

Chant it with me lads!

Just remember re Barba, we got 1 good season from him, no club has he been great year in year out

 

[Frenzy.]

What a blood spill.

 

[Chimp]

Val - lots of effort and yards, but no creativity
Feki - Mistakes and not getting us on front foot around ruck like last year
Loots - Ok but nowhere near least year or early season form
Capes - Poor, found out positionally
Beale - Probably our best and only player who's improved this year
Jimmy - Poor, not fit and a bit sulky
Chad - Poor, needs to go forward and be a threat with the ball 1st and foremost
Feefs - All over the shop - needs to concentrate on hard yards
Nu - Ok
Prior - Nowhere near last year's form
Lewy - Reliable
Wade - Out of form
Gal - Looks tired
Seggy - needs time that we probably haven't got this year,
Lats - Plodder
Boogs - no impact this week - carrying an injury?
Taga - Bit of impact, but not just a number

So out of the lot, there's only Beale playing as well or better than last year.

The ref was awful - pinged us for '2nd effort', Brisbane do much worse and not
Pinged once. And just a little thing, it has to be 'play advantage' at the sin bin and we score, of not, it should be a penalty try - if they hadn't done that, we would have scored - proof is the fact that we did anyway. Cummins was pre-determined that he was not going to give us anything all night.

 

[snout]

If the GF was next sunday.

And you asked bellyache who is the ONE side he does not want to play....

His honest answer would be us.

 

[Card Shark]

Yes, so we have to get ourselves in a position to play them late into the finals or GF.

 

[isaiah]

Val - lots of effort and yards, but no creativity
Feki - Mistakes and not getting us on front foot around ruck like last year
Loots - Ok but nowhere near least year or early season form
Capes - Poor, found out positionally
Beale - Probably our best and only player who's improved this year
Jimmy - Poor, not fit and a bit sulky
Chad - Poor, needs to go forward and be a threat with the ball 1st and foremost
Feefs - All over the shop - needs to concentrate on hard yards
Nu - Ok
Prior - Nowhere near last year's form
Lewy - Reliable
Wade - Out of form
Gal - Looks tired
Seggy - needs time that we probably haven't got this year,
Lats - Plodder
Boogs - no impact this week - carrying an injury?
Taga - Bit of impact, but not just a number

So out of the lot, there's only Beale playing as well or better than last year.

The ref was awful - pinged us for '2nd effort', Brisbane do much worse and not
Pinged once. And just a little thing, it has to be 'play advantage' at the sin bin and we score, of not, it should be a penalty try - if they hadn't done that, we would have scored - proof is the fact that we did anyway. Cummins was pre-determined that he was not going to give us anything all night.

The ref, oh no. Not the rub
of the green

 

[isaiah]

Yes, so we have to get ourselves in a position to play them late into the finals or GF.

Last night was like origin 4 with a similar result