Vic Mackey
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Questions need to be asked of Madge at this stage IMO. Fair enough he doesn't have the quality on the squad to win the comp at this stage but he wa brought in to instil discipline, structure and more importantly resilience in the side and they lacked all 3 of those things today.
We were quite thin in the forwards today with our whole starting back row missing and our 2 first choice hookers out as well and that showed in the first 10 minutes when tigers made a couple of breaks and should have scored first. We held on and at the first moment of duress the tigers wilted and the game was essentially over.
Madge isn’t above criticism, and yes he deserves some. When he was initially appointed I wasn’t a fan of it as he’d only been at big clubs previously. In the off season I listened to a podcast where he said he knew there would be challenges taking on the job, however he wasn’t aware just how hard it would be and was talking to Tim Sheens weekly about it.
As for the second paragraph, well the pack still had 3 current internationals, and I think the fact that they were missing those players yet still won by 30 shows the gap between the top and even mid range sides which I was talking about earlier. I also believe you could put Teddy and Keary in a team of Leiluas and they’d still make the top 4. The dudes are that good.
The fact that a side was missing 3 current origin players, yet can dismiss another so easily, is frankly something the NRL should be concerned about. And no this isn’t a cliche boring brown paper bag dig, full power to the roosters for their continued success.
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