T-BONE MCGRAW
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Does anyone think we may just be lacking a hard nosed defensive enforcer to complete our team. I know Fuifui plays with a lot of aggression especially in his runs but due to his judicary problems he seems to have been told to tone down his defence. I love the fact that Piggy plays with a lot of emotion and regularly flies the flag and PJ hits very hard in defence for a small guy but I just think we are missing a player that other teams really fear. Someone who smashes in defence and other teams are scared to run at. The guy that immediately comes to mind is Luke O'Donnell but even someone like a Carl Webb, Mark O'Meley or Rueben Wiki in his prime. It is my opinion that no other teams really fear our forward pack especially the starting pack. We are very good at what we do well in that workman like mannner and our offloading this year has improved tremendously but we really lack aggression especially in defence.
I bring this point up because I believe we have been roughed up in quite a few games this year and I believe sides now see this as a way to beat us. As referees are doing nothing about the roughhouse tactics against us we may have to start taking matters into our hands (within reason) and try and fight fire with fire. It is all about controlled aggression especially in defence. The only guy we currently have that springs to my mind is Richard Fa'aoso (any others??) and it may be too late to buy someone for next year. We need to try and somehow get a bit tougher, something like the bulldogs mentality. We may hate the Bulldogs style but in rugby league nice guys don't win and at the moment we are too nice.
Sorry about the rant but I had to get it off my chest.
I bring this point up because I believe we have been roughed up in quite a few games this year and I believe sides now see this as a way to beat us. As referees are doing nothing about the roughhouse tactics against us we may have to start taking matters into our hands (within reason) and try and fight fire with fire. It is all about controlled aggression especially in defence. The only guy we currently have that springs to my mind is Richard Fa'aoso (any others??) and it may be too late to buy someone for next year. We need to try and somehow get a bit tougher, something like the bulldogs mentality. We may hate the Bulldogs style but in rugby league nice guys don't win and at the moment we are too nice.
Sorry about the rant but I had to get it off my chest.