Game Day: Rd2 Eels v Sharks @ Commbank Mar 10, 2023

[Gazzamatta]

well what I find strange is, one week maka is good enough to get on the field and Greg missed out. And the previous week it was the other way round. Does ba make this shit up?

And awesome that the journalist that posted the article, called out ja for having no utility value.

Well Poo hasnt listed JA as a utility so it must be so.

 

[Gary Gutful]

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Look at the size of that face FFS!

 

[yy_cheng]

I just rewatched the game.

We should just work on defense over and over.

I asked sixties at tct, it's not that impressive during training attacking against our reggies team when he's creaming over our attack at tct during preseason. If our bench is shit, our reggies would be worse so of course our nrl guys should kill it against them. Play me against a bunch of 10yo and i would look impressive

What we should do is train with our left side attacking our rhs defense and vice versa rhs attack again lhs defense.

So those holes that opened up can be overcome as they have quality attackers running plays at them in training instead of rankin and whoever the 7 was when ja filled in for the nrl team at training. So they get better at communicating again quality attack at speed.

After fixing our defense, just focus on offloads.
In the sharks game, we were really good Offloading. It's when we get our opposition at 6s and 7s.

Without ice and marata, we don't really have a power game no more after reg and jnr puts on a run

When hopgood offloads, carty offloads and gutho too, we make meters galore.

Then throw in junz, matto, Lane and even nrown, we have offloaders by the dozens

We have shit middles after our props come off, bring in nrown, matto, carty in the middle too just run, offload, together with hopgood to make our meters instead of power game from the likes of maka, murch et al

Get rid of the clearing kicks to the rhs over and over. Our kick chase is shit and we can't seem to trap them in their quarters after a few plays as our defensive linespeed is gone.

I'd rather mitch practice and practice the spiral bombs.

Stand deeper and put them up even if they don't go further than the conventinal kick to the right corner. If the fb is too deep, he'll struggle to get to it. If a non specialist has to catch it coz fb is out of position, then good luck if it's a spiral. It also can bring the fb and wingers up and if mitch sees that, kick it deep. Mix it up instead of the same thing over and over

 

[hineyrulz]

We worked all off season on defence apparently lol.

 

[yy_cheng]

well what I find strange is, one week maka is good enough to get on the field and Greg missed out. And the previous week it was the other way round. Does ba make this shit up?

And awesome that the journalist that wrote the article, called out ja for having no utility value.

No not really. It is not strange. Maka is a defender. Emu is an attacker.

So he'll play one or the other depending on the game. If he wants to hold the middle in defense maka comes on, if he wants more to forward, emu comes on.

Murch seems to have his trust so he'll be a middle that will always come on.

Jirrah is the useless one who can cover the backs or out wide but he's shit

I'd rather he has rein or yates to spell hodgo

To cover the edge forward, murch probably can do that.

To cover a back, e, g guths hia, carty to centre, murch to Carty's spot and the centre to wing and wing to fb as what happened. And of course, maka or emu to cover murch

Its not stupid. Choosing jirra and not spelling hodgo is stupid

 

[yy_cheng]

We worked all off season on defence apparently lol.

Mate, like i said, working on defense against rankin and ja doesn't really do much except inflate their egos

 

[yy_cheng]

Have say hodgo, dyl, mitch, waqa, sivo, Lane attacking against our other edge in simo, will, carty, etc will have much better practice. Then switch it around.

I mean defense against lumi, sam, rodwell, rein, rsnkin and ja is not good enough

 

[IFR33K]

No not really. It is not strange. Maka is a defender. Emu is an attacker.

So he'll play one or the other depending on the game. If he wants to hold the middle in defense maka comes on, if he wants more to forward, emu comes on.

Murch seems to have his trust so he'll be a middle that will always come on.

Jirrah is the useless one who can cover the backs or out wide but he's shit

I'd rather he has rein or yates to spell hodgo

To cover the edge forward, murch probably can do that.

To cover a back, e, g guths hia, carty to centre, murch to Carty's spot and the centre to wing and wing to fb as what happened. And of course, maka or emu to cover murch

Its not stupid. Choosing jirra and not spelling hodgo is stupid

Sorry mate this isn’t the nfl. I know some players are better at attack and others at defense.

but all players at nrl should be capable of both. Especially a middle forward.

 

[Avenger]

No not really. It is not strange. Maka is a defender. Emu is an attacker.

So he'll play one or the other depending on the game. If he wants to hold the middle in defense maka comes on, if he wants more to forward, emu comes on.

Murch seems to have his trust so he'll be a middle that will always come on.

Jirrah is the useless one who can cover the backs or out wide but he's shit

I'd rather he has rein or yates to spell hodgo

To cover the edge forward, murch probably can do that.

To cover a back, e, g guths hia, carty to centre, murch to Carty's spot and the centre to wing and wing to fb as what happened. And of course, maka or emu to cover murch

Its not stupid. Choosing jirra and not spelling hodgo is stupid

When I read all these player names I feel depressed. Plodders the lot of them.

 

[hineyrulz]

Mate, like i said, working on defense against rankin and ja doesn't really do much except inflate their egos

You need to tell SuperCoach this, let’s face it in all his time here our defence as on the whole been average at best. Even last year when me made a GF it was 7th best.

 

[yy_cheng]

You need to tell SuperCoach this, let’s face it in all his time here our defence as on the whole been average at best. Even last year when me made a GF it was 7th best.

Its why i challenge tct, when he's creaming about our attack in pre-season.

There's nothing I've seen so far from our attack that was better than last year besides from scrums we do the panfers thing and play nfl but we haven't scored from here.

And drown was our hb the majority of the time last year too with moses mainly kicking

 

[yy_cheng]

Sorry mate this isn’t the nfl. I know some players are better at attack and others at defense.

but all players at nrl should be capable of both. Especially a middle forward.

Yeah, the probs is our backups are only half as good as Ice and marata.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Despite our defence we had plenty of chances to win the game with the ball in our hands. The period of the game where were on their line in the second half before the Gutho intercept was where it was lost. That pass sticks and we win the game.

 

[yy_cheng]

Despite our defence we had plenty of chances to win the game with the ball in our hands. The period of the game where were on their line in the second half before the Gutho intercept was where it was lost. That pass sticks and we win the game.

But it was a shit pass. It had to be a rocket ala Hayne to Grothe or a harbour bridge

 

[Twizzle]

Despite our defence we had plenty of chances to win the game with the ball in our hands. The period of the game where were on their line in the second half before the Gutho intercept was where it was lost. That pass sticks and we win the game.

problem is is did stick, but in the wrong hands

 

[TheParraboy]

No not really. It is not strange. Maka is a defender. Emu is an attacker.

So he'll play one or the other depending on the game. If he wants to hold the middle in defense maka comes on, if he wants more to forward, emu comes on.

Murch seems to have his trust so he'll be a middle that will always come on.

Jirrah is the useless one who can cover the backs or out wide but he's shit

I'd rather he has rein or yates to spell hodgo

To cover the edge forward, murch probably can do that.

To cover a back, e, g guths hia, carty to centre, murch to Carty's spot and the centre to wing and wing to fb as what happened. And of course, maka or emu to cover murch

Its not stupid. Choosing jirra and not spelling hodgo is stupid

IMO our biggest issue is errors, dumb errors. Always has been, we shit the bed in other areas when we play undisciplined

15 is way too much, on the back of that it led to 66% completion rate.

Address this and it goes a long way to fixing most other things

We got a few new recruits , but you would have to think there is a few comfort zone players

 

[Gronk]

Sivo was charged for dangerous contact on someone. $1500 fine.

<inert Matto jokes here> Go !

NRL Judiciary Report: No charge for Munster following GF

The match review committee has announced on Monday morning that there were no charges arising from the 2024 NRL grand final.

www.nrl.com

 

[Poupou Escobar]

his son Jake on the bench for most of the season in 2022, despite the 20-year-old holding no utility value outside of playing in the halves.

A halfback with good fitness and front on defence can play hooker.

 

[yy_cheng]

Sivo was charged for dangerous contact on someone. $1500 fine.

<inert Matto jokes here> Go !

NRL Judiciary Report: No charge for Munster following GF

The match review committee has announced on Monday morning that there were no charges arising from the 2024 NRL grand final.

www.nrl.com

Can he take 30mins off

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Sorry mate this isn’t the nfl. I know some players are better at attack and others at defense.

but all players at nrl should be capable of both. Especially a middle forward.

It’s not about whether they’re capable, it’s about their strengths and weaknesses.