3-2-1 v Souths

[Blair]

Yeesh, how scary was Latrell Mitchell when he showed up?

Frightening. But give me a superstar like Jonathan Thurston any day. He always showed up.

 

[Meth]

I mean, he's generally not a bad player the rest of the time. But he just goes full beast mode sometimes.

A try.
5/5 kicking (with some tough kicks)
Line breaks.
Try assist.
Some searing bombs.

Heck of a game.

 

[One Warrior]

3. CNK
2. Ford
1. RTS

HM's: Egan, Capewell, JFH, CHT, Clark, Metcalf

 

[Big Marn]

3 CNK
2 Leka
1 Clark

HM RTS, Capewell, Metcalf, Egan, Ford

 

[TheDMC]

3. CNK
2. Clark
1. Egan

HM: RTS, Metcalf, and bunch of others.

Entertaining game, but of course we made it much tougher than we should have. Best mini period of the game was us defending our goal line from multiple six to gos and then powering all the way downfield from the 20m restart to score.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

3. Charnze
2. Fish
1. RTS

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

Dallin was good today. He got peppered with bombs but diffused them. Did he rush in on defence though?

Took his try very well. Think the commentator even said something like "perfect execution"

For their tries
Their first one, DWZ not involved - Koloamatangi went through multiple defenders to score

Their second, was the intercept try, DWZ was on his wing in an attacking position when Johnstong took it. No fault of DWZ

Their third (Johnstons second) was a very good cut out pass to Johnston, on DWZs wing. DWZ slightly out of position as he drifted in in a touch. Had been square on Johnston, he may have been able to tip him out.

Their 4th, (Johnstons 3rd) he gave Johnston far too much space. He was ball watching which allowd him to score.

Their last try, Mitchell crashed over, no where near DWZ.

TLDR - Scored an excellent try, semi at fault for one, then out of position for another.
Not his worst day in the office by any means, but room for improvement

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

I'd go

3 - CNK
2 - Leka (bear in mind we were without Barnett for a good chunk of the game)
1 - RTS

 

[Philip_Smith007]

3. CNK
2. Ford
1. RTS

 

[vvvrulz]

TLDR - Scored an excellent try, semi at fault for one, then out of position for another.
Not his worst day in the office by any means, but room for improvement

Agree, DWZ was fine. He was scratchy before but it wasn't bad this time - that was a tidy finish & Trell was in full batsh*t insane Trell mode which I doubt most wingers could have done much about (there were a couple of questionable passes to boot).

These guys should be allowed 2-3 games to get back into the zone, suggestions of Kosi > DWZ are laughable.
Tuaupiki on the wing is a more even debate but it's not clear cut by any means.

 

[nswarrior]

3. CNK
2. Ford
1. RTS

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I mean, he's generally not a bad player the rest of the time. But he just goes full beast mode sometimes.

A try.
5/5 kicking (with some tough kicks)
Line breaks.
Try assist.
Some searing bombs.

Heck of a game.

The tale of the tape with the two fullbacks was insane.

Latrell ran for 105m v CNK's 339, and twice as many runs (14 v 28) but every one of those 14 counted. Latrell was insane, it felt like playing Jonah in Jonah Lomu Rugby where he could score a try from every possession or do something immortal. It actually looked like men v boys at times, which is ridiculous to say about a top four team in the NRL.

Latrell is never going to be a guy who gets big stats or actually is interested week in, week out but man he's a weapon. Even the goal kicks, the spiral punts, the 40/20 attempt where CNK went out, those aren't human.

 

[Blair]

The tale of the tape with the two fullbacks was insane.

Latrell ran for 105m v CNK's 339, and twice as many runs (14 v 28) but every one of those 14 counted. Latrell was insane, it felt like playing Jonah in Jonah Lomu Rugby where he could score a try from every possession or do something immortal. It actually looked like men v boys at times, which is ridiculous to say about a top four team in the NRL.

Latrell is never going to be a guy who gets big stats or actually is interested week in, week out but man he's a weapon. Even the goal kicks, the spiral punts, the 40/20 attempt where CNK went out, those aren't human.

The less-fancied one ended up singing the team song!

 

[Meth]

Warrior of the week is Charnze Nicoll Klokstad

Nicoll Klokstad 48
Ford 14
Tuivasa-Sheck 12

Egan 10
Clark 7
Capewell 5
Halasima 5
Metcalf 4
Fisher-Harris 3

18 voted

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Took his try very well. Think the commentator even said something like "perfect execution"

For their tries
Their first one, DWZ not involved - Koloamatangi went through multiple defenders to score

Their second, was the intercept try, DWZ was on his wing in an attacking position when Johnstong took it. No fault of DWZ

Their third (Johnstons second) was a very good cut out pass to Johnston, on DWZs wing. DWZ slightly out of position as he drifted in in a touch. Had been square on Johnston, he may have been able to tip him out.

Their 4th, (Johnstons 3rd) he gave Johnston far too much space. He was ball watching which allowd him to score.

Their last try, Mitchell crashed over, no where near DWZ.

TLDR - Scored an excellent try, semi at fault for one, then out of position for another.
Not his worst day in the office by any means, but room for improvement

Yep agree and I actually think DWZ can be excused for Johnston’s second try as well.

The end-on replay showed they numbered up fine initially, but Latrell created the space by getting slightly outside Leka and attracting Metcalf. That brought Berry in, which left DWZ facing a 2 on 1. And then given the quality of the pass.. don’t think Dallin could’ve done much more there TBH.

Only genuine error I can think of was not going up for the bomb that led to Johnston’s third try. Dunno who else was involved but coming in from the backfield that should’ve been his ball to defuse. Otherwise, I thought he was pretty solid.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Just saw that 4 out of the 10 highest metres gained totals in a game in the last two seasons have been by CNK. people who want to move Charnze on need to learn to have better opinions.

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Just saw that 4 out of the 10 highest metres gained totals in a game in the last two seasons have been by CNK. people who want to move Charnze on need to learn to have better opinions.

Will forever respect the dude and I'm obviously stoked with how he's going. But I'm also happy to keep backing my view that given the same opportunity RTS would've delivered the same output (if not more) and with more of an attacking threat too.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Yep agree and I actually think DWZ can be excused for Johnston’s second try as well.

The end-on replay showed they numbered up fine initially, but Latrell created the space by getting slightly outside Leka and attracting Metcalf. That brought Berry in, which left DWZ facing a 2 on 1. And then given the quality of the pass.. don’t think Dallin could’ve done much more there TBH.

Only genuine error I can think of was not going up for the bomb that led to Johnston’s third try. Dunno who else was involved but coming in from the backfield that should’ve been his ball to defuse. Otherwise, I thought he was pretty solid.

I thought that was really poor from Capewell who let the Rabbitohs player take the catch uncontested and then made no attempt to tackle him. That's a real bugbear of mine, for some reason defenders are routinely really bad at shutting down the play when they let attacking players catch the ball uncontested. It should be easy to smash them if you're letting them catch it.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Will forever respect the dude and I'm obviously stoked with how he's going. But I'm also happy to keep backing my view that given the same opportunity RTS would've delivered the same output (if not more) and with more of an attacking threat too.

Might be true but neither of them by themselves is as good as having them both in the team.