Poupou Escobar
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His mental gymnastics are funny. He does make some good points occasionally.
You could make an argument for Penisini over Tago and Blake over May. You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think Penrith would take our starting forwards on their bench at the very least. You’re also delusional if you think Reimis Smith is a better centre than Gutho if they were both available at the same price.
Cheers merkin
If Drown joined as a centre, one of Tago or May would get dropped (Crichton to wing). I don't think Penisini or Blake are better than either of those two, and if they're only as good they aren't 'walking into the team'. All else being equal there's no reason to replace a player with one equally as good.
I said they'd take a couple of them. We have several middle forwards who attack better than most of Penrith's, but the Panthers prioritise defence over attack in the middle. And as good as Lane and Papali'i are, they're not as good as Kikau.
I'd say Smith is faster and stronger, which covers most of what makes outside backs effective. Gutherson is better than Smith at a lot of things (and is a better overall player) but I think Smith is a better outside back.
Not me. Moses’ kicking game and ability to create tries is much harder to replace than Drown’s running game and defence. In saying that, I truly hope we’re deep in negotiations to retain both. I can live with not forking out the big bucks for Ice to get them both across the line. It might mean we need to run with Matto on the edge and have Hopgood in the middle. We also have Brown and Bryce still on our books who can also cover those positions so I don’t think we lose too much. Someone like EIi might also be a Smokey for next year on the edge after a big preseason.
I think the cap increase should let us keep both .... but wont be cheap
Agree. Both have really developed under BA. Moses defence is as good as you need a half. His kicking game is #1 in the game. His short side is #1 in the game Dylan is now in the zone and believes he belongs and can make a difference as a running 5/8. His short kicking game and money ball game are excellent now too.
Pou just gives it his all because he virtually assumes he was been put on the wrong debating team at school. The team that has to argue about something even though deep down they don’t truly believe in it.
Squad next year will be fine…doubt we will drop much if at all….
This time last year Brown was playing on the right and Lane mostly in the middle, with a bit on the right.
Rheeds best game of the year for us last night. I thought he was pretty damn good.
In the last 2 weeks the whole squad has stood up, as evidenced by the improved defence and number of tries scored.
I think this is the perfect time to peak you just cant go into the finals out of form. Take out souths game 4 out of last 5 strong performances.
I said it during Manly game when Lane spilled an offload attempt, those errors are “ok” (but don’t drop it FFS), because it’s about cracking the defence (although doing it for 20 minutes straight with no success can be detrimental). The Drown forward pass is less ok. And Opacic has lost his tap on privileges.
After the 10000th time last night someone queried the record of back to back score lines against, I thought of Souths last year and their lurching season. It’s not the best blueprint for success nor can we necessarily emulate it, but it shows you can be complete horseshit during the season and still be competitive when it matters
Souths only lost 4 games last year. So they weren't poor.
