Good questions.
R&R has been tricky since Flanno came. Flanno has tried his best to get the best of what's available and probably the pick of the bunch will be Holmes. Atkinson is what we need and next season can't come quick enough. Getting Ilias at short notice was lucky, but a huge gamble. My rant about the oldies was more in frustration that we lost more than anything after Cook and Gutho being talked up all offseason as being leaders etc but failed to lead us to victory over pretty much a NSW cup side.
Arguably 1sts and cup teams on paper looks more balanced than last season but we've had rotten luck with middles (Molo saga, Sele and Couchman injuries). I'd be looking to blood LPT and Reed to see if they can handle 1sts. We'll know if things are getting better for our future in how U19's and NSW cup go.
In how the team plays it's too slow off the line in defence and everything looks low energy. Our middles get dominated in tackles way too easily. They need to run more varied lines and offload more often and need more support players to keep the defence guessing.
It's early days in this season and my rants have been more in disappointment than anything.
At the end of the day I'm just a pleb on a forum venting an opinion and I'm not inside the 4 walls at the club seeing how they train/ do video etc.
Not from myself but Ive read a lot of really interesting and insightful observations on the footy forum.
And stranger still, it’s not like it’s just the one sage person or group, it’s like “every dog has his day” here. Which is great.
I present my top 5 LU SGI forum predictions that the club should’ve implemented:
1. Mary’s tenure would eventually end up in utter disaster.
2. Issac Luke should never have been considered let alone signed.
3. Ben Hunt was not a fit and proper person to wear the jersey. Trying to turn him into a half decent human being was a pointless exercise.
4. Duftys defensive lapses far outweighed his sporadic attacking prowess
5. Tyson had a bad habit of overrating himself.
So these things came to pass and they were predicted by us filth here long before they actually transpired.
