Poupou Escobar
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Should've asked him how he felt when we put 30 points on them earlier in the year.
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Should've asked him how he felt when we put 30 points on them earlier in the year.
Arthur's said after the game it was dumb.
Show me a time the attack makes it look easy against good defence. Attack never looks sharp unless the defence lets them.
With the amount of possession we had in that game it should have been way more.
Why? We're a controlling, grinding team, not a sideline to sideline team.
How much possession do you think a team like ours needs to put 40-50 points on? Or are we just incapable? I see us more of a team who can dominate or hold our own in the yardage battle against any team but doesn’t have much creativity in the opposition 20. I think we do go sideline to sideline in front of the opposition goal line but it’s slow and predictable and the players don’t run very good lines. The pundits seem to be agree. That’s not a grindy team. That’s a team with a great forward pack that has deficiencies in how they conduct their attacking sets.
By a side that has won just 2 games, trust Pou to blow a triple over that though.
It depends which team we're playing against, but I think when we're in front the intent is to keep controlling the ball rather than taking more risks and trying to pile the points on. If the points come they come. The main thing is to win, and for us that means keeping the ball away from the opposition.
The swap was all about covering for Waqa Blake.
Except now he's back on Moses' side.
He wasn't so smug when we scored five tries against them. They knew what was coming and still couldn't stop it. But it relies on executing our kicking game well, and Moses is key to that.
There should be more to any attack than executing a kicking game, the point is we have a relatively stale, predictable attack with the ball in our hands. It’s always good to win, but as a team we need to do more and be more to get where the other teams are to threaten them.
He wasn’t being smug. He just didn’t know how to answer the question without sounding rude. Why do the Eels get a free pass with one player out yet the roosters have 60% of their cap sitting on the sideline and that doesn’t matter?
Well Gutherson and Mahoney are both in the top 12 for try assists. Sivo is in the top seven for tries, for the third year in a row. We certainly don't just have a good kicking game, but the kicking game is essential for building pressure. Without Moses it just isn't good enough. Maybe after another off season our other kickers will be good enough, but this year we are reliant on Mitch Moses.
Yes we can always get better. I just don't think 'ideas' are the solution for our team. We didn't threaten the Roosters defence because we didn't build any pressure, unlike last time we played them. And as soon as they got some ball they scored two quick tries. Without Moses we didn't have the confidence to grind our way back into the game and just resorted to throwing it around. That's 'plan B', and it is by definition not as good as plan A. When we have matched the top six teams this year it's been by sticking to plan A and remaining patient. Plan B is the easy option.
Because at full strength they are much better than us. Does anyone ever refer to Parramatta's salary sombrero? Our team isn't as good as theirs. That's just a fact.
No one has ever said we are a one man team until now.
We're certainly a one man kicking game.
