Poupou Escobar
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He was 20 years old and already won an Origin series.
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He was 20 years old and already won an Origin series.
We seriously overrate our players. I'm sure all fans do. There is no doubt some Roosters fans who think their club should have gotten more than three merkins picked.
| Club | Kangaroos |
|---|---|
| North Queensland | 4 |
| Easts | 3 |
| Penrith | 3 |
| Souths | 3 |
| Canterbury | 2 |
| Manly | 2 |
| Melbourne | 2 |
| Brisbane | 1 |
| Canberra | 1 |
| Gold Coast | 1 |
| Parramatta | 1 |
| St George | 1 |
And since Brian Smith was doing it every club now tries to do it. That means more demand for talented youngsters, which pushes their price up. Suddenly 'junior development' went from a sneaky way for a mid-tier club like Parra (and St George before that) to gain an advantage to the situation we have now where the richest clubs dominate the junior competitions with youngsters poached from overseas, interstate and country NSW.
Don't forget he's from Penrith's catchment but he played all his junior rep footy for Souths, another club that spends big on junior 'development'.
The difference is Penrith were minor premiers in 2020 with the best for-and-against. They were legitimately the best team that year. We finished fourth this year but were the seventh for points differential.
We had to play Penrith twice and the Cowboys in Townsville ffs!
It has never been a feature of our pack. They are power and skill athletes more than they are mobile toilers.
We were paying $3 to win immediately after beating the Cowboys ffs. Massive outsiders long before Brad Arthur prepared the team worse than you would have done if only you were in charge.
Because he only has one job, and only had to do it for 35 minutes. His job is defensive effort. Only Salmon and the two hookers made fewer runs than him yesterday.
Considering we had less than 40% of the ball in the first half I'd say we did too much chasing the collision and were absolutely rooted from it.
Another merkin who doesn't have to play long minutes. Leota (35 minutes) and Leniu (21) played fewer minutes combined than RCG, Matterson, JFH and Yeo.
I honestly wish I had the confidence in our team to truly believe we'd be back next year to go one further with the experience of this loss to fuel us. The last time I had that much confidence in the side next year ended up taking thirteen years to come and it's the exact same result.
You think that proves they were unmotivated? They were fatigued from having no ball ffs
Most likely he was having a breather out there which is why they targeted him.
It’s got nothing to do with scapegoating. The coach got the team to a grand final. He’s the one who picks the team, makes the gameplans and prepares the players so he deserves credit for that. Where do you think the team should have finished if you think we “overachieve”. I’d say we finished where we deserved to but it was a disappointing performance in the grand final.
Maybe he could attack in the middle while defending out wide. That would allow him to play longer minutes too.
Fatigue definitely got to us, as I thought it would last week. However something Gould said last week haunted me ever since:
First week was a free swing and Cowboys in Townsville is pretty damn good. Do you think we’re going to play nuffy teams in the prelims when it’s the best four teams remaining?
