2021 R7 ANZAC Day - Sydney 34-10 St Geo Illa @ SCG

[Rabbit toes]

Dragons to win by 10 then go on a 5 game losing streak

That’s the 2nd

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

They were never better than a mid-table side. Beats the heck out of running last as was predicted though.

I thought we’d be an 8-12 side myself with Griffin as coach... never a wooden spoon side.

I disagreed with all those positional changes made... doesn’t make me right but it tells Adam Clune he’s not a good enough 7.... after we won 3 with him there....

We had success for 4 weeks in a row, even though some opposition was very average... yet one loss and all those changes in the backline...

We got rightly pumped today. By a side missing plenty of its roster. We lost it in the forwards - who on the whole looked stuck in the mud.

But to bin your 7 and play Bird (braining it in the centres) into the halves.... Play your 6 at 7... and put a rookie winger into the centres......against the Roosters....

Griffin just threw out what was working for the team for over a month when most people had written them off..

We may come back and get a win against the abysmal Tigers next week... but we are still far, far from a side that looks to be a top 8 contender. And today we looked more like what those pundits suggested we’d get - wooden cutlery...

 

[horrie hastings]

The one thing that was telling about the difference between the two teams, when the Dragons had the player in the bin for 10 mins the Roosters scored twice, when the Roosters had a player in the bin for 10 the Dragons couldn't score yet the Roosters scored another try, thought that really summed up the difference between the two sides.

 

[Captain Apollo]

I thought we’d be an 8-12 side myself with Griffin as coach... never a wooden spoon side.

I disagreed with all those positional changes made... doesn’t make me right but it tells Adam Clune he’s not a good enough 7.... after we won 3 with him there....

We had success for 4 weeks in a row, even though some opposition was very average... yet one loss and all those changes in the backline...

We got rightly pumped today. By a side missing plenty of its roster. We lost it in the forwards - who on the whole looked stuck in the mud.

But to bin your 7 and play Bird (braining it in the centres) into the halves.... Play your 6 at 7... and put a rookie winger into the centres......against the Roosters....

Griffin just threw out what was working for the team for over a month when most people had written them off..

We may come back and get a win against the abysmal Tigers next week... but we are still far, far from a side that looks to be a top 8 contender. And today we looked more like what those pundits suggested we’d get - wooden cutlery...

Have to agree with your assessment. When I heard al the changes my first thought was "did Clune get injured in the warm up?" When I heard the changes were not forced I could not believe it. Bird showed when he was at the Broncos (when he was not out injured) that he was not that good at five eight. Thus to move him there, move Norman to half and Clune out of the starting side, to me, was crazy. Griffin outsmarted himself on this one. The old saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it" should have applied yesterday for the Dragons.

 

[typicalfan]

The worry for the Dragons is that the Roosters really exposed them. It was like once they found the weakness in the defence they just poured through and the Dragons were helpless to stop it.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

The worry for the Dragons is that the Roosters really exposed them. It was like once they found the weakness in the defence they just poured through and the Dragons were helpless to stop it.

Yep, agreed.

It’s not me being a smarty but all too often in recent seasons I get a feeling in the first 20 minutes whether we are gonna lose or not. Not by the score but by how well (or bad) we are making yards in the forwards and our cohesiveness in the backs...

We led early yesterday... but I was pessimistic after 20 coz the roosters were gaining far more territory with the ball and doing more with it in the backs.

Our forwards weren’t running onto the ball at the ruck with any consistency... they were regularly well behind the dummy half and even flat-footed at times.

Norman actually was doing a great job in the halves early, and Bird was causing a fair bit of chaos.. but they weren’t in synch. As a result we had bugger all line breaks, scored our first try from Sims at close range smashing his way over, and the last when we finally decided to get clune on and throw the ball around.

Everthing in between was just mediocre.. and we got the score line we deserved.

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Yep, agreed.

It’s not me being a smarty but all too often in recent seasons I get a feeling in the first 20 minutes whether we are gonna lose or not. Not by the score but by how well (or bad) we are making yards in the forwards and our cohesiveness in the backs...

We led early yesterday... but I was pessimistic after 20 coz the roosters were gaining far more territory with the ball and doing more with it in the backs.

Our forwards weren’t running onto the ball at the ruck with any consistency... they were regularly well behind the dummy half and even flat-footed at times.

Norman actually was doing a great job in the halves early, and Bird was causing a fair bit of chaos.. but they weren’t in synch. As a result we had bugger all line breaks, scored our first try from Sims at close range smashing his way over, and the last when we finally decided to get clune on and throw the ball around.

Everthing in between was just mediocre.. and we got the score line we deserved.

Flat footed?

Hiw about when the jokers were just tossing it around like a hot potato, not one person wanted to hit the line and in the end, instead of taking it up, they laid down for a voluntary tackle?!?!

What a f**ken disgrace!

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Flat footed?

Hiw about when the jokers were just tossing it around like a hot potato, not one person wanted to hit the line and in the end, instead of taking it up, they laid down for a voluntary tackle?!?!

What a f**ken disgrace!

Haha - mate why on earth have you gone back into this game day thread of misery after so many days since the carnage ended?!?!?

And now I'm back in here....

AAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Haha - mate why on earth have you gone back into this game day thread of misery after so many days since the carnage ended?!?!?

And now I'm back in here....

AAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

Heheheh.

Fell on black days - Soundgarden.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Heheheh.

Fell on black days - Soundgarden.

Mate, Dr’s advice ... go back into the Dragons Eels game day thread instead and potter around in there for a bit...

And put on a bit of U2.... The Saints are comin....

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Mate, Dr’s advice ... go back into the Dragons Eels game day thread instead and potter around in there for a bit...

And put on a bit of U2.... The Saints are comin....

Ha. Yes. I do like that. But not quite relevant atm.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Anything good that was created so far this season for the Dragons has been completely erased today.

@I Bleed Maroon was right.

At least someone has the spine to admit it. Props to you. I feel sorry for being right, but Hook didn't suddenly become a good coach in a couple of years in the wilderness.