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Robson time to go please move on

Windy70

Juniors
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Considering where are sitting right now. Just bring Murphy in and let him and Bird find a partnership.

Nothing to lose.
 

Feej

First Grade
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Considering where are sitting right now. Just bring Murphy in and let him and Bird find a partnership.

Nothing to lose.

Yep
Him 6
Bird 7

Gagan back too

Brown cleaning the dummy's on game day

Sorry, he'll never clear this road-block...

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cb4

First Grade
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You will find out exactly the type of coach Flanno is, when he picks Robbo and doesn't blast him in the media.

Remember after our first 4 losses, he was in the press saying Barba needed to be more involved, Barba needed more runs, Barba needed tries for confidence.

Well, low and behold, father time lost us a game. All on him. I won't hear that we shouldn't be in a position with 2 minutes to go with a 2 point lead. Its rugby league, being played by 2 teams similar in talent. It was always going to be a close game.

The fact that he did not read the situation and kick for touch, or even through it into touch highlights just how poor he is. TC hid the flaws in this guys game, and now we are finally starting to see that this guy is and always has been nothing.

It is a shame that Connor Tracey hurst himself, but now is the perfect time to bring Murphy into the team.
I would also be bringing Isaako into Leutele's spot.
Either Bird goes there of Isaako but we cannot keep him out of the team any longer.
 

RUBIKS

Juniors
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I'm not a fan of Robbo by any means... However I'm pretty sure Ennis told Robbo to put up the bomb.

Still, he should have been able to do it quicker... or change the "plan" with Hoffman screaming in like that.
 

Ads

First Grade
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I'm not a fan of Robbo by any means... However I'm pretty sure Ennis told Robbo to put up the bomb.

Still, he should have been able to do it quicker... or change the "plan" with Hoffman screaming in like that.

Watching it again on replay, it is absolutely unbelievable he even tried to kick it given how close Hoffman was. There was only one outcome possible. Idiotic. Certainly enough to warrant being dropped.
 

DJShaksta

First Grade
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A halfback owns the game.
A halfback chooses what kick to do.
A halfback should play what's in front of him not what someone else says 10m away.

He should've put the ball behind the Warriors defensive line and made them work it out.
Instead he took too long, fluffed the kick and we were at 6's and 7's in defense.
 

Snoop Shark

First Grade
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Watching it again on replay, it is absolutely unbelievable he even tried to kick it given how close Hoffman was. There was only one outcome possible. Idiotic. Certainly enough to warrant being dropped.

Absolutely warrants a stint for the jets. That was not an error of judgement that was just plain dumb.

If Flanno doesn't have the balls to drop robbo questions about this coach need to be raised.
 

shaggs

Coach
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I think the bomb was the right play. 90 seconds to go. Hoist it up. Good chase and tackle your ass off for 60 seconds. Finish with the ball.

Robsons error was that he was so slow. Had no idea where Hoffman was and didn't have he vision to change plan when Hoffman was close.

I haven't played for ten years and knew that Hoffman was going to charge down. It was all or nothing play for a team down by two with 90 seconds to go. Hoffman wanted to win and tried to win. Robson screwed up again and added nothing to the team. Again
 

Feej

First Grade
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Absolutely warrants a stint for the jets. That was not an error of judgement that was just plain dumb.

If Flanno doesn't have the balls to drop robbo questions about this coach need to be raised.

Will be the first guy picked by supercoach tomorrow. :(
 

carcharias

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Don't get me wrong I don't think Robbo is anything special and had a monumental f**k up.
But they should have stopped that try
They were all back onside by the time Johnson got the ball.
 

Frailty

First Grade
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I think the bomb was the right play. 90 seconds to go. Hoist it up. Good chase and tackle your ass off for 60 seconds. Finish with the ball.

Robsons error was that he was so slow. Had no idea where Hoffman was and didn't have he vision to change plan when Hoffman was close.

I haven't played for ten years and knew that Hoffman was going to charge down. It was all or nothing play for a team down by two with 90 seconds to go. Hoffman wanted to win and tried to win. Robson screwed up again and added nothing to the team. Again

Bomb is absolutely the wrong play.

Put it into touch. Wastes a bit more time until the opposition sets its scrum. Gives our players a short rest, and the chance to set the defensive line.

However, if he did manage to get the kick away - it would be a shit kick, but wouldn't have cost us the game. He is too slow, his passing isn't great, is kicking is horrendous, his change of direction has a larger turning circle than a semitrailer.

We can pretty much write the season off, so why waste it giving him game time.
 

Frailty

First Grade
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Don't get me wrong I don't think Robbo is anything special and had a monumental f**k up.
But they should have stopped that try
They were all back onside by the time Johnson got the ball.

They should have. There is no excusing that.

However, let's think about the fact that we're were down on players (14 men for the majority of the second half), it was the end of a physical game, and they'd just had to sprint back to even make it back onside.

That's on top of Shaun Johnson being one of the most elusive players in the game, and he had open space.
 

ghoti

Bench
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He is too slow, his passing isn't great..

There was a moment in the first half where we were running a double decoy play that QLD run regularly...the one where Thurston will pass a ball on the edges between two decoy runners to a centre. I love that play and it's f**kin poetry when QLD do it...

Robson's pass was a wonky floater that almost jagged the decoy runner, and landed on the ground about a metre from Beale who (somehow) managed to pick it up off the finger tips just in time to get belted.

Every week Robson has less and less pros to metre out his obvious cons.
 
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