maybe not his fault but its kearney's responsibility to find out why its happening and try to train it out of him
That petty shit is for under 10s coaches. It's up to NRL players to take some ownership and learn those lessons themselves.
If Kearney can't rely on Roberts to keep simple errors out of his game it's up to Kearney to drop him. Insulting his intelligence won't help anyone.
Anyway, the reason Roberts had such a bad game (his first bad game this year) was from lack of mental preparation for the match. Whatever he was doing right the first seven weeks, he wasn't doing prior to Sunday's game.
Given Roberts has a history of random, intermittent shithouse performances, it's likely that he has a pattern of finding good form, resting on his laurels, and going into every
nth game completely unprepared.
And I agree it's Kearney's job to address this. Maybe Roberts needs his arse kicked every single week no matter how well he's playing? But there's the danger of alienating him. A player in good form doesn't want to cop a beasting because he
might f**k up, even if he has a history of it. It's likely that the best way to manage Ben Roberts is to keep him for his seven out of eight good games, and accept the inevitability of that shit one every two months.
Roberts was our worst player on Sunday but there were plenty of other poor performers in both the handling and defensive stakes. If they'd played with some consistency we could have carried Roberts' off day and still won.
