Do we keep Sandow?

[Twizzle]

Did BA tell you that ?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Just about.

 

[Twizzle]

in other words, no

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Actions speak louder than words, Twiz. Arthur has spoken.

 

[lingard]

Go watch alexander etc talk about sandow on matty johns, everything i have been saying. Sandow carried us in our only wins out of his skin and the storm game was obviously his worst game. Hand us the spoon now without him. I hope that isnt the case but if we win any it will be because our defence woke the f**k up not to do with the halves. We have leaked 40 tries in 9 games lol @ anyone who is deathriding our halfback its like tim smith II NO one learns

You do understand that the more tries we score the more possession we have - and therefore the less defence we have to do?
You also understand that in order to score lots of tries you need two halves who are consistently able to stick to a game plan and keep the attack flowing in an organised way?
You do understand that is why we are getting rid of Sandow?

 

[lingard]

He's in reserve grade because Arthur wants him f**ken gone. Not because it's going to magically change the way Sandow plays.

He's already gone. Arthur is hoping like crazy that Luke Kelly performs so that he doesn't have to play Sandow in firsts again this year. I must admit, I am too. I'd like for the team to get used to playing without Sandow - in preparation for next year.

 

[hindmarshisgod]

Kelly is shit but i am confident he will play to a game plan. Unlike Sandow.

I am confident we will be better off.

Brad needs to persist with him till the end of the season. He cannot keep chopping and changing. Sandow must never come back into the side. He has had 4 seasons. His time is up.

 

[yy_cheng]

I saw Kelly play last week. He plays lazy and looks like he's put on 10kgs around the gut since being in UK.

But he's related to Inglis

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

He's in reserve grade because Arthur wants him f**ken gone. Not because it's going to magically change the way Sandow plays.

He's already gone. Arthur is hoping like crazy that Luke Kelly performs so that he doesn't have to play Sandow in firsts again this year. I must admit, I am too. I'd like for the team to get used to playing without Sandow - in preparation for next year.

I think you're both right. But I would still like him to stay. I said earlier he wasn't exactly being scapegoated as I thought Arthurs was doing it unconsciously, therefore perhaps it's not technically scapegoating. But now I'm not so sure it's unconscious. We'll see pretty soon I guess, but it doesn't look good for Sandow. So often in the past we've seen high-risk players cop it when a run of losses occur, and it's usually out of proportion to what they deserve.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Kelly is shit but i am confident he will play to a game plan. Unlike Sandow.

I am confident we will be better off.

Brad needs to persist with him till the end of the season. He cannot keep chopping and changing. Sandow must never come back into the side. He has had 4 seasons. His time is up.

I predict that a couple of weeks from now not even you will agree with this sentence.

 

[Noise]

He's in reserve grade because Arthur wants him f**ken gone. Not because it's going to magically change the way Sandow plays.

Why is Paulo in reserve grade? I know Arthur re-signed the city origin phenom but I am hoping it's because he is f**king gone too.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Why is Paulo in reserve grade? I know Arthur re-signed the city origin phenom but I am hoping it's because he is f**king gone too.

Good point. I remember he was re-signed late but I don't remember if it was for one or two years.

 

[Noise]

I predict that a couple of weeks from now not even you will agree with this sentence.

I give it by 3:40pm tomorrow

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Why is Paulo in reserve grade? I know Arthur re-signed the city origin phenom but I am hoping it's because he is f**king gone too.

Paulo is top 25 but I doubt he is on top 17 money. Therefore he wasn't re-signed to be an automatic selection in first grade. It's just turned out that way by necessity.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I give it by 3:40pm tomorrow

Yeah, probably. I'd wager a fair amount that there hasn't been a single post in this forum calling for Sandow to be dropped for Kelly in the last 12 months at least.

 

[strider]

kelly is the biggest plodder in plodsville

sandow can go missing - but fmd I'm struggling to see where we are going to get any spark from

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Arthur said we'll have to grind our way to a win.

You don't need individual brilliance to score tries, just field position and weight of possession.

 

[strider]

you need some clue about how to make the opposition make bad reads in defense .... we will struggle

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Arthur said we'll have to grind our way to a win.

You don't need individual brilliance to score tries, just field position and weight of possession.

I reckon Arthur was happy to accept the plaudits when some of Sandow's individual brilliance got us points and won us games. The dropping of Sandow smacks of sending a message to the public and his employers, but I don't think it's good for the team. We've seen Kelly's awfulness before. And I don't think it would be too hard to find quotes from BA about how happy he was with the way Sandow was playing, when he was doing exactly the same things he's been doing lately.

 

[eels_fan]

Well with Tomkins & Hurrell out and Manu only 50/50 to play, a stronger defensive line will certainly limit there options as out wide they'll lack the power to run straight over us. With those Boys out it really falls on Johnson.

I see a low scoring game. We'll pip them 14-10