Round 8 v Tigers

[Illusion]

Im ok with it because i expected this and not disappointed......

 

[Walpole]

Tigers are shit, we just showed we have the capacity to be worse. Guess I shouldn't be buying any grand final tickets...

 

[Maddragon99]

How can a side go from 4 straight wins, where the forwards look dominant,& the backs explosive to one which turns in three consecutive losses where they look like a bunch of off-cuts who've never met?

Hook has got to wear some of this but I honestly can't think of two players that I would give a first grade jersey next week on today's performance,

Moose played well his defence & carries were strong I think he played 80mins. Vaughan was ok, Lawrie was ok. Rest of the pack was well beaten. Kerr in particular was simply awful.

Norman & Dufty were MIA Hunt & Bird tried. Feagai showed a lot of promise losing Lomax then Ramsey was critical.

Burns was a real worry I know he played out of position but he was simply terrible.

Expect big changes next week. Junior Amone 18th man was telling

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

We will likely have to get approval to use players outside our top 30 in the outside backs next week. Ford needs a run too he’s next cab off the rank, Burns nor Kerr are impressing me.

 

[Coffs dragon]

We never fail to disappoint in giving our local retired players an inept farewell performance. Firstly it was Flo & today was Mez...
Today’s match was hard to watch & it was a mess.

 

[Coffs dragon]

We never fail to disappoint in giving our local retired players an inept farewell performance. Firstly it was Flo & today was Mez...
The match was hard to watch & it was a diabolical mess.

 

[jeffdragon]

Tigers are shit, we just showed we have the capacity to be worse. Guess I shouldn't be buying any grand final tickets...

Planning a birthday now knowing the semis are gone.
Was hoping we'd be there but .
No way Jose.

 

[jeffdragon]

Tigers are shit, we just showed we have the capacity to be worse. Guess I shouldn't be buying any grand final tickets...

Planning a birthday now knowing the semis are gone.
Was hoping we'd be there but .
No way Jose.

Moose played well his defence & carries were strong I think he played 80mins. Vaughan was ok, Lawrie was ok. Rest of the pack was well beaten. Kerr in particular was simply awful.

Norman & Dufty were MIA Hunt & Bird tried. Feagai showed a lot of promise losing Lomax then Ramsey was critical.

Burns was a real worry I know he played out of position but he was simply terrible.

Expect big changes next week. Junior Amone 18th man was telling

Moose played well his defence & carries were strong I think he played 80mins. Vaughan was ok, Lawrie was ok. Rest of the pack was well beaten. Kerr in particular was simply awful.

Norman & Dufty were MIA Hunt & Bird tried. Feagai showed a lot of promise losing Lomax then Ramsey was critical.

Burns was a real worry I know he played out of position but he was simply terrible.

Expect big changes next week. Junior Amone 18th man was telling

 

[Inisai Toga]

The only forward i thought was strong was Vaughan. Rest pretty bloody average particularly with the football (when they caught it). Bird’s defence is too hit and miss. He may find himself in the second row replacing Kerr who’s not consistent enough at the moment in any part of his game.

 

[Ted bartolo]

Let's see if Griffin has the balls to make changes. Time to rebuild

 

[kit66]

What's Gareth Widdop up to these days ? Maybe him and Clune can get us on track. Or maybe we could buy some more sh*t forwards to complement the ones we have, not that we can blame the forwards today.
How useless are Hunt, Norman, McCullouch and Dufty, playing against a team that averages 30 points against this year and we manage to grab ONE lucky try against them.
In the last couple of losses I saw some good in our efforts but not today, today was worthy of Dragons 2020, 2019, 2016 etc, that's to say complete crap. Awful, impotent, embarrassing.

 

[hewi]

3/4 weeks ago thinking 7 to 10th, now realistically bottom 4.

 

[thebigredv]

With WIlliame injured I am not sure we can field a team next week.

 

[jeffdragon]

We gave it to them on a platter
Any team would have given it to the tigers except us .
If we had of respected the ball points would have come.
Letting laurie out of in goals was a clincher.
After that there was only one team playing and it wasn't us.

 

[Dragonslayer]

No words for that performance.

Changes required but we simply don't have the troops.

Burns is not ready for 1st grade, that's obvious.
The Kerr experiment should now be put to bed as teams have worked out his defensive flaws.
Norman, well, again had the opportunity to grab the game by the scruff of the neck and failed.
Did Dufty play today?
Hunt, didn't look fit and was tentative missing 9 tackles

I have no idea what our game plan was, only saw what we have witnessed over the last 8yrs and that's 1 out running, no spread, no variation. If the plan was to beat them through the middle, it failed miserably.

With Lomax, Ramsey (probably), JP and Rave out next week, who do we play?

Williame hasn't been sighted for a couple of weeks even in reserve grade. Matt Feagai has just returned from injury. Bud still out injured. SSE is still only a DS player.
Maybe Norman to centre (because we have no-one else) and Clune and Hunt in the halves.
In the forwards, Ford to come back in for Burns, maybe Faama but he has just played 1 game in a couple of weeks also.

Oh Trent, if you had just stuck around for a couple more weeks.

 

[Spazer]

Bird really struggles 1 on 1, Ramsey can't diffuse and Kerr drops the ball more times than he runs. Burns looked bad defensively but was playing out of position. Mcguire and vaughan were the only two players who bent the line and looked like winning the momentum back for us but in the end we would just drop it cold.

Tigers are horrible but honestly we are in the same tier as them and I can't see us improving before the bye round.

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

The only forward i thought was strong was Vaughan. Rest pretty bloody average particularly with the football (when they caught it). Bird’s defence is too hit and miss. He may find himself in the second row replacing Kerr who’s not consistent enough at the moment in any part of his game.

That would be a good idea and I agree but we are so short on backs we might not have that option.

 

[George Sancti]

Very disappointing. I expect the club is regretting signing McGuire and Burns.

 

[Dragon David]

I have no words.

Back to the McGregor era where you just knew this is what they’d dish up and boy, they didn’t disappoint.

Only Vaughan and McGuire for mine can hold their heads up from the forwards. Kerr needs a spell in reggies.

The backs are just as much a dog’s breakfast. Lost patience with Norman and losing patience with Dufty.

I shudder to think what Melbourne will do to us in a couple of weeks.

Agreed. I'm not happy with the way Bird has been playing.

 

[Inisai Toga]

Very disappointing. I expect the club is regretting signing McGuire and Burns.

Agree George, no impact