F.O Andrew Webster

[Big Marn]

At least you acknowledge your pedantry. Lol

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I have no doubt that there is a grain of truth in this in that the Melbourne culture has got the most out of him. As a pedant though I do feel compelled to point out that Katoa wasn't a New Zealander in the first place (only moved to NZ at 17 and left at 20) and his entire NRL career has been based in Australia - so at no point in his NRL career was he actually at home in NZ or in a position to be enjoying home comforts.

I actually wasn't aware of that, I thought he'd gone through our schooling system his whole way through. I presume prior to that was Tonga? Yep, just checked. So yeah, what I said doesn't probably fairly represent it, although what I did hear was that he was very comfortable in that South Auckland bubble, and probably needed to go elsewhere to break the family/friends shackle and train hard. Plus, he was being coached by Brown so had to go.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Just listening to Levels podcast, they are talking about the RTS fullback situation

Horo saying that Webster was intimating that Roger’s communication at fullback is the main reason that CNK has been the preferred option there. He also said that RTS makes up for that deficiency with his physicality

 

[Meth]

Let's be clear- Webster has been terrible this year.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Huge brickbat for Webster tonight

Johnson has been garbage all year, Martin has played well in his absence, albeit with a couple of quieter weeks lately, and Shaun’s injury obviously stopped him training

His kicking game was awful, barely any hit the mark. No running game at all, and he just dumped off short ball after short ball for 80mins, very predictable even though they got a result when the Eels were short. Saw a limp in the 2nd half and his goal kicking showed no confidence in the leg. There is nothing in his 2024 form to not have him returning through NSW Cup to find timing and fitness, especially at Martin’s expense

Also thought Egan off the bench was a mistake, and he woikd have been better suited to all that early attacking ball than Lussick

 

[flippikat]

Huge brickbat for Webster tonight

Johnson has been garbage all year, Martin has played well in his absence, albeit with a couple of quieter weeks lately, and Shaun’s injury obviously stopped him training

His kicking game was awful, barely any hit the mark. No running game at all, and he just dumped off short ball after short ball for 80mins, very predictable even though they got a result when the Eels were short. Saw a limp in the 2nd half and his goal kicking showed no confidence in the leg. There is nothing in his 2024 form to not have him returning through NSW Cup to find timing and fitness, especially at Martin’s expense

Also thought Egan off the bench was a mistake, and he woikd have been better suited to all that early attacking ball than Lussick

I'm sorry, but as I said in the matchday thread, I think SJ needs moving on.

(Yeah, I actually said "Biden" him)

The message needs to be "Hey, we love you & respect all you've given, but we can't justify you being there anymore, the future is someone else's"

 

[Beavers Headgear]

I'm sorry, but as I said in the matchday thread, I think SJ needs moving on.

(Yeah, I actually said "Biden" him)

The message needs to be "Hey, we love you & respect all you've given, but we can't justify you being there anymore, the future is someone else's"

The fact that we are in round 22 and no announcement for next year has been made may suggest that has already occurred

 

[flippikat]

The fact that we are in round 22 and no announcement for next year has been made may suggest that has already occurred

I hope so. His constant "free pass" into the starting lineup has impaired other, younger, healthier & frankly (on current form) BETTER halves careers.

With SJ moved along we can coherently build for the next few years.

 

[Big Marn]

Is there a disconnect between the game plan and the players that are supposed to be executing the plan?
If this is the game plan ie. be ultraconservative, wait for the opposition errors and score off the back of that, then a full season is always going to regress to meh. Last year was an outlier.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

I know press conferences probably don’t really matter…but if Webster comes out again and talks ‘errors’ that’ll do me. The problem is we are completely failing to capitalise on dominance because of an ultra-conservative attacking game plan and a complete lack of either creativity or well designed set plays on attack. If he doesn’t recognise that he’s deep in delusion.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

I know press conferences probably don’t really matter…but if Webster comes out again and talks ‘errors’ that’ll do me. The problem is we are completely failing to capitalise on dominance because of an ultra-conservative attacking game plan and a complete lack of either creativity or well designed set plays on attack. If he doesn’t recognise that he’s deep in delusion.

Literally the first words that came out of his mouth! To many errors!
Media called him out on it as excuse the last few weeks!
Webster looked visibly pissed off from the start.
He defended SJ return as decent and hard to judge under the errors! FmD
Thinks they can win the next 4. Haha