Mahlidad said:
Great presonal achievment by all players but let me remind everyone of the down side...
We play Knights Monday Night, City v Country Thursday night then fly to N.Z for Saturday arvo game then Broncos Friday night!!
Thats 4 games in 11 days!!!!
Prepare for the rep season to bite us hard!!!
That's right, this could really hurt our season. Our managing staff can put our rep players on all the bloody airplanes they like, but it remains to be a horrible scheduling conflict.
Remember in 2005 when we were playing ourselves into some great form then played 3 interstate games in a row? I think it was something like two Queensland games and the home game we took to Perth. THAT killed our season and we had plenty of time to recover in comparison to the next few games.
3 games in six days could end up being nightmarish for us, we'll really struggle with that. The only positive I can see coming out of this is testing our depth. There's bound to be one or two of our new rep players picking up a niggling injury somewhere down the line. I'd love to see a new halves pairing get a shot and even some rotation of our pack.
A big congratulations to Bird and Douglas who've built themselves into fantastic players the last couple of years...there are no debutantes more deserving than these two. Pomeroy has played some good football and this might give his confidence a bit of a much-needed boost. Players that know they're king sh*t are the ones that drop a lot less ball.
Will be interesting to see Gallen line up against Bird.
