Blake Austin is a better 5/8 than Anthony Milford & Mitchell Moses

[Caped Crusader]

Austins reads in defence are atrocious

Truely horrible stuff from him tonight

 

[Pete Cash]

I cant entirely blame austin it must be a nightmare to defend in that defensive structure. Seizer and crokers miss were basically symptoms of what pay is doing wrong

Actually austin was bad. I just want to outline how nonsensical our defence is

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Sucks to do this because Milford was less sh*t, but ah well.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Sad part is about players coached by Stuart is that they look very good initially under him but get worse and worse with time. I like Austin as a player so hopefully this is just poor form rather than becoming Sticky-fied.

Austins a good first grader but is now 25 and has always played the same way. He has a great show & go and is a good support player but that's it. He isn't ever going to be a guy who goes to the line and sets his outside men up, win a game through kicking/management etc. His defence has always been questionable. I still think he'd be more suited as a fullback or center or even as a bench utility/impact player.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

I cant entirely blame austin it must be a nightmare to defend in that defensive structure. Seizer and crokers miss were basically symptoms of what pay is doing wrong

Actually austin was bad. I just want to outline how nonsensical our defence is

I just wish Stuart would rip off the bandaid and send Pay packing. This system is holding us back so much.

 

[Pete Cash]

Austins a good first grader but is now 25 and has always played the same way. He has a great show & go and is a good support player but that's it. He isn't ever going to be a guy who goes to the line and sets his outside men up, win a game through kicking/management etc. His defence has always been questionable. I still think he'd be more suited as a fullback or center or even as a bench utility/impact player.

Im not writing him off but i think we should play hodgson at 5/8th for a few weeks.

 

[chigurh]

Milford was pretty good I thought. Two try assists and a couple of line break assists isn't awful, and he took the line on quite a bit.

 

[Pete Cash]

Milford was pretty good I thought. Two try assists and a couple of line break assists isn't awful, and he took the line on quite a bit.

Very hard to tackle too. For smaller player he is quite physical. He is heavier than he looks though.

 

[Mogsheen Jadwat]

Let us never speak of this edition of the contest, both players were bad but austin was on a real god tier of shitness tonight in d

 

[some11]

lol Walt, neither played all that well.

 

[Mogsheen Jadwat]

Milford was pretty good I thought. Two try assists and a couple of line break assists isn't awful, and he took the line on quite a bit.

Milford tried hard but didn't have as much impact as hed have liked. If milford had two assists for boyd you wouldnt say they were particularly skillful due to canberra being so bad.

 

[chigurh]

Milford tried hard but didn't have as much impact as hed have liked. If milford had two assists for boyd you wouldnt say they were particularly skillful due to canberra being so bad.

That's true, but still I was OK with how he played. Stats aside he kept trying to break the line all night and if there was one thing Canberra did well it was probably stopping him from breaking through. So pretty good signs I reckon.

 

[blaza88z]

where's Bobby? I don't want to have to wait until after Canberra's bye to hear from him again

 

[Bigcoq]

Or wants out of Raiders? Shadow of his 2015 form..

 

[Walt Flanigan]

He was actually pretty decent over the last month, just an off night. Took him a while to get going after his knee injury.

 

[BennyV]

...is that a question?

 

[Bobby DIGital]

Well that was pretty underwhelming from both players. Both of them done pretty much nothing in attack, but I guess Austin scored a try at least. LOL @ Milfords stock standard passes to Boyd being counted as try assists. :?

We obviously put undue pressure on ourselves with a series of awful errors coming out of our own end. Then we backed it up with some awful communication in defence on our line. The lot of them are to blame for this. When we play with urgency in attack, we seem to split every defensive line open. It just comes too late sometimes.

 

[betcats]

The one try doesn't really cover the two he let in. Anyway possible plot twist; Moses smokes G.I

 

[user_nat]

So Moses won this week.

 

[Clifferd]

Moses also made Milford look 2nd rate when Tigs played Broncs

Could be turning a corner