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Cleary the goat

Fangs

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It was Nathan's best year of first grade IMO. I can't fault him. Unusual to say because he didn't play a lot of games but I have 0 criticisms.

As for Ivan? He killed it. From a coaching perspective I reckon its his finest hour. The job on the middle tonight was terrific. I haven't seen halves take on the middle that early in a game before. Truly relentless.
 

Fangs

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Nathan Cleary:

29 runs (Most in the team)
212 metres

Can anyone recall a half running that much? Particularly the nature of the runs. A lot of them up the middle and early in the contest. He did run a lot against Melbourne in round 24.

We also threw 20 offloads. Very close to a team high for 2024. The highest was 23 offloads back in round one...against Melbourne.

Thoughtful gameplan from the coach.
 

Munky

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Ivan completely out coached Bellamy last night.

Sorro playing was a huge boon for us as it meant we had Garner available to go to centre when To'o went off and two true backrowers in position for the final twenty.

The entire game plan was just force contact in the middle and Harry especially. It was telegraphed and Bellamy didn't plan for it. Harry looked like Cam McInnes in the presser.

Selling out on high kicks by swarming the catcher was a brilliant move especially since the Storm have an inaccurate kicking game and can't land the ball where they want. The one time they put it on the goal line it took a brilliant defensive play to stop the try. They just don't have the ability to accurately kick consistently though and Penrith knew it.

Katoa looked the most likely for Melbourne but they never schemed around it, even with a make shift edge defence. Two of our tries were deliberate, the obvious set play for Turuva and the pass back to Nathan to exploit Munster who is low key a terrible defender positionally. Melbourne just didn't seem to have that sort of awareness and relied entirely on out of position markers with Harry making space. We knew it was coming and trampled Harry all game to blunt him.

Apologies for the unstructured word vomit.
 

MugaB

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Is Alamoti really good or is it just Ivan and the system?
He was good at bulldogs, not defensively, but a strong runner in at centre, very fast and had huge tree trunks for legs, seems to have slimmed a bit since then, was looking wery wery matt utai
 

MrBlack

Juniors
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All of our GF's were done with very different playing styles.

Ivans ability to adapt to what/who's available and who we are playing cant be under stated.

Imagine if we were told pre game that the game plan against the Storm was going to include just letting them catch every high ball they put up. We would have thought it was crazy.
 

Munky

Coach
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All of our GF's were done with very different playing styles.

Ivans ability to adapt to what/who's available and who we are playing cant be under stated.

Imagine if we were told pre game that the game plan against the Storm was going to include just letting them catch every high ball they put up. We would have thought it was crazy.

I think 2022 we played similar to 2024.

The difference is the Eels gave up after twenty minutes and the Storm didn't.
 

chrisD

Coach
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All of our GF's were done with very different playing styles.

Ivans ability to adapt to what/who's available and who we are playing cant be under stated.

Imagine if we were told pre game that the game plan against the Storm was going to include just letting them catch every high ball they put up. We would have thought it was crazy.
Nah, we compete in the air for way too many balls we don't have to.
 
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