GAME DAY vs Canterbury Fleabags.

[Windy70]

Nicho is down. Started the season in flying form and sniper goal kicking. He obviously does not handle the hype and pressure at origin time.
Only he can pull himself back on track. I'm sure he will. Just hope he hurries the F up.

 

[DJDL]

That was a really poor performance. The Dogs are focused but very limited. Easts dealt wuth them fairly easily last week. The Dolphins loss was frustrating but they had the 5 day turnaround from Brisbane excuse for the slow start. Last night, no excuses. No origin disruption, not fatigued after the bye.

It's almost as if they have gotten bored with the disciplined, hard footy from early in the season and resorted to old habits of switching off so they have a lead to chase.

The mentality weaknesses are rearing their ugly heads again. Got in front against the Dolphins and Dogs and couldn't close either.

Hynes needs to get himself sorted real quick. The thing that irritated me most (apart from shaking the field goal) was off the back of the 2 very quick ptbs he puts in a steered kick straight down the throat of the Dogs winger. He had all the time in the world to execute and did the pop gun kick he known for to piss away momentum in an instant. He needs to find a hard edge. The mollycoddling has to stop.

If you're referring to the one early in the first half, agreed. That pissed me off no end.
We'd been under the pump from the get go, finally had a good set, and he comes up with that.

6 tackles later Burton puts up a bomb, Big Sexy spills it. The Dogs are camped inside the 10. 6 again. Try.

His game management has gone to shit.
He seemed to have improved leaps and bounds earlier in the year. I don't know where it's gone.

I was also unimpressed with his efforts, or lack thereof, mid way through the second half when the Dogs looked to be tiring. They were starting to open up everywhere. An elite 7 would have put them to the sword during that time, but we just ran the same old predictable plays and came up empty handed.

Trying to defend a 2 point lead for 20 minutes was never going to work.
As with the match against the Dolphins, I mentioned to my wife we were about to bring back the starting middles and, unless we put more points on, we're done for.
Et voila.

The other one that really got my goat was the "setup" for the field goal attempt.
When the opposition turns it over on their 40 metre line during golden point, you just have to get it done.

So the first few tackle are worked to set it up and McInnes gets tackled on the 20.
You want to get a little closer so what do you do?
On the next play give it to the one dude whose been trampling defenders all night so he can get within 3 metres of the line.
Pharquing genius move.

Now the defense only needs to retreat 3 metres and will have no trouble charging through and putting pressure on.

Not only that, but Brail's pass from dummy half was rubbish.
He passes better from right to left, but had to pass left to right there.
This is the shit you need to know, and work on.
Decide where you are comfortable taking the kick.
Where does Brails need to be to be passing to you from his preferred side?
And get the ball to someone who is going to get you there or thereabouts.
Not 15 metres past it, and 10 metres to the left of it.

Absolute garbage.
Again.

 

[txta2]

The issues this team had like 3 years ago are still exactly the same. And big surprise its pretty well the exact same squad because blind faith has been put into a squad of high end reserve graders.

Yep, now look for another coach extension

 

[txta2]

I sort of thought after they got bundled out of the finals 2 years ago Nicho alone is not up to it. They need another star in the spine if they want to even think about winning a finals game

 

[txta2]

Nicho is a fullback or 6. You need to find a 7

Would be the slowest 6 in rhe comp

 

[1990 sharkie]

I sort of thought after they got bundled out of the finals 2 years ago Nicho alone is not up to it. They need another star in the spine if they want to even think about winning a finals game

Another star? Who's our current star and I mean skill wise not just media love

 

[Quigs]

Noice avatar Txta. Like it.

 

[Frenzy.]

Generally speaking we played ok. There were 3 reasons we lost that game.
Toby was atrocious
Nicho is cooked
And to a lesser degree the ref f**ked us.

Can’t do anything about the ref, but Fitz can and should drop Toby.

The big problem is nicho. I have no idea what Fitz can do there. He obviously needs to persevere and look to bring him back to form. But fmd, nicho is one of the only blokes with a mind coach but his head is all over the shop. Maybe he needs a different one. I just don’t know.

I'm sure I touched on this recently as well. His mind coach is a mate as far as I know. Not to say he isn't a professional mindset coach but I wonder if there is enough brutal honesty going on or if it's all just cuddles and backslaps.

I'm starting to think there may be some BAD going on.

 

[Stake Removed]

Fitz needs to drop a couple of them make them play reserve grade.
Most of this team seems just to turn up every week go through motions

 

[txta2]

Another star? Who's our current star and I mean skill wise not just media love

Nicho is a star player, no doubt. He'll be back, but come finals time someone like a Maloney or Munster would make him go to next level

 

[dinghydi]

Nicho is a star player, no doubt. He'll be back, but come finals time someone like a Maloney or Munster would make him go to next level

maybe we need to start a breeding program to get the halfback we need. Imagine ...Chads , self-confident indestructible Ego, combined with Nichos still unrealized potential? ... SUPER 7

 

[Craigshark]

maybe we need to start a breeding program to get the halfback we need. Imagine ...Chads , self-confident indestructible Ego, combined with Nichos still unrealized potential? ... SUPER 7

with who’s hair?

 

[1990 sharkie]

Nicho is a star player, no doubt. He'll be back, but come finals time someone like a Maloney or Munster would make him go to next level

If he is a star , what does he do thats great as a half? He's a good player that's overrated by the media but no way a star player

 

[txta2]

If he is a star , what does he do thats great as a half? He's a good player that's overrated by the media but no way a star player

your'e joking?? won a dally M and has won plenty of matches on his own. He's out of form sure but he is still the number 1 player at the club .

 

[1990 sharkie]

your'e joking?? won a dally M and has won plenty of matches on his own. He's out of form sure but he is still the number 1 player at the club .

Dally m is a joke. Not doubting he's won us games or that he isn't our number 1 player. He just isn't in that superstar tier across the nrl like some people claim he is
Running game isn't good and neither is his kicking game
Management is a work in progress
Hes best skill is playing against a retreating line
Hes a new half and it'll take time

 

[PJ]

Something popped up on X saying he wants out.

 

[Cheese sandwich]

Something popped up on X saying he wants out.

Troll account by the looks of it

 

[PJ]

Troll account by the looks of it

Hope so.

 

[Craigshark]

Does nicho really strike you as that type of person? He was playing origin a couple of weeks ago. I don’t think he’s that immature to throw his toys out of the cot over a rough couple of weeks.

 

[shadowboxer]

Could you see anyone trading in his beach lifestyle here in Cronulla for the likes of Townsville’s sweaty ball bag territory.
Oh yeah….sorry Chad…