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We probably won't win a premiership this year. Do you think we're spending as much on players as all the other clubs? Is the season not worth watching if we're not the best team?
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We probably won't win a premiership this year. Do you think we're spending as much on players as all the other clubs? Is the season not worth watching if we're not the best team?
And it snowballed from there.
We didn't make them work at all. Our six middle forwards made a total of 48 runs. Manly's middle forwards ran the ball 85 times. No wonder the heat killed us. And considering most of their middles are a defensive weakness we really should have tried to move them around. Instead we just went from sideline to sideline.
It was indeed, so why imply that 'bending their line' would fix our defence?
This says they had even possession: http://mc.championdata.com/nrl/
The 'small team' did just fine last year. Why does it need addressing now?
Or are you just unfit?
It’s very exciting.
Brad Arthur said French needed to improve his fitness to handle all the running at fullback. He also said Hayne was always one of the worst at the endurance stuff. Put two and two together. Or, just look at the fact Hayne hasn't been picked at fullback. You think he's playing centre because we don't have enough centres at the club? Auva'a won a premiership at centre. Takairangi played there for the Kiwis.
When do I ever make any sense to any post I reply too????
Because those blokes aren't qualified strength and conditioning coaches. They don't know how to make players stronger, fitter, etc while minimising injury. This bloke does. The fact he is from AFL is irrelevant. You think Brad Arthur doesn't know the guy has been coaching athletes from a different sport? It's totally irrelevant. The coach would know NRL players need to be conditioned to the standard of the sport (obvious from historical data) and he knows how to get there. Any fitness coach could do it, no matter which athletes he's been working with. The human body is the same regardless of the sport. The only difference is the numbers. How to achieve them is bread and butter for these people.
We played an in-house trial under match conditions.
I find these guys more reliable: http://mc.championdata.com/nrl/
It's round two. Nobody has shown anything yet. A couple of teams have gotten the jump on the premiership ladder but that's about all that is relevant at this stage. Form is meaningless this early on.
Looking too far ahead. We want another shot at the finals, not to have to grind out 25 weeks on the way there. The shit attitudes will get fixed or replaced. There's a reason Arthur has built such a deep squad. The idea of him refusing to drop favourites is bullshit.
That describes Billy Slater IMO.
I didn't say we weren't shithouse. I said Manly were excellent. And they were.
Well we've not had a go before and done better than 54-0. I think Manly deserve plenty of credit for their performance.
Why can't they be fixed quickly? This is a team that won 16 games last year. Why wouldn't they be able to sort their shit out now?
Lack of talent isn't our problem, which is good, because the salary cap and lack of available recruiting targets makes it hard to fix that in a hurry.
Our goal line defence was good all game last week. Penrith only scored three tries (the same amount as us) despite dominating possession for 50 minutes.
I did ask that, and the answer I came up with was that the team wasn't fatigued so much as the middle defenders were fatigued, including three that came off the bench and decided it was too hot to move up in defence.
The intent is to get a stronger, more skilled and more experienced player some opportunity with early ball that he wouldn't otherwise get at centre. I think it's a good idea. It's not the reason we have been losing.
