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fmd that was a shyte game last night
we won and we won well, but again again, the victories are leaving me hollow
it's not football imo. it's so reptitive that you only have to watch one set of six and you've seen the whole game.
rick has bought a toughness to the club that's gotta be admired, I've even thanked him for it. but in the process he's turned us into a bunch of dour merkins. Lobotomies all round by the look of it
The defense style game that has swept through the NRL after Rickies 2001 season has made the NRL a domain for the best athletes, rather than the most gifted players. Stamina and Strength 1st ....flair ..... last. Ricky was almost the Architect.
He could get away with it for the first three years because he had a modern great in Freddy to help create points .....Present day he has the worst paycheque:skill halfback of the modern era in his team so it isn't going to have the same effect. He only has himself to blame though ...he should have got rid of the mutton a while ago. The continual selection the 100 game myth also doesn't help.
Ricky says he wants X factor players ....This is a fair enough request ...The only hole our halfback ever found resulted in children, so he wants players who can do it by themselves. BUT ....Then you look at canberra
God there are some nevilles in that side ...COLIN BEST!!!!!! The bloke is a poor mans David Simmons, yet he' now somehow filling the hole Mark Gansier's loss has left. ....I wouldn't classify their squad as massively more "X Factor" than ours, yet they can put a try on at will. Granted that they don't have to put up with Kimmorley though.
It has to come down to coaching and game plan. I don't know what is being taught at training, but it's like our guys are scared to improvise .....scared to throw it around ....Spontaneity is being coached out of them ....... This seems evident by the general decline in form of our one and only X player ...Kearney. But maybe these players are just too rare these days, because there's just no place for them in the defense orientated NRL. They mightn't have the body shape and beep test skills to handle Rickie's Up and In defense.
In closing, the shyt we dish up doesn't endear the team to fans. Us die hards will still stick around, but bringing new fans to the sharks, and to the game of rugby league in general is difficult when you dish up boring shyte week after week.
K i'll stfu ... Discuss if you cbf'd
edit: ftr, it should be noted that I know Ricky does a hell of a lot for the game aswell with his various media gigs. You never hear him talk down the game, and he try's to promote pride in the Aus jumper.
Im talking purely from a "spectacle" point of view.
we won and we won well, but again again, the victories are leaving me hollow
it's not football imo. it's so reptitive that you only have to watch one set of six and you've seen the whole game.
rick has bought a toughness to the club that's gotta be admired, I've even thanked him for it. but in the process he's turned us into a bunch of dour merkins. Lobotomies all round by the look of it
The defense style game that has swept through the NRL after Rickies 2001 season has made the NRL a domain for the best athletes, rather than the most gifted players. Stamina and Strength 1st ....flair ..... last. Ricky was almost the Architect.
He could get away with it for the first three years because he had a modern great in Freddy to help create points .....Present day he has the worst paycheque:skill halfback of the modern era in his team so it isn't going to have the same effect. He only has himself to blame though ...he should have got rid of the mutton a while ago. The continual selection the 100 game myth also doesn't help.
Ricky says he wants X factor players ....This is a fair enough request ...The only hole our halfback ever found resulted in children, so he wants players who can do it by themselves. BUT ....Then you look at canberra
God there are some nevilles in that side ...COLIN BEST!!!!!! The bloke is a poor mans David Simmons, yet he' now somehow filling the hole Mark Gansier's loss has left. ....I wouldn't classify their squad as massively more "X Factor" than ours, yet they can put a try on at will. Granted that they don't have to put up with Kimmorley though.
It has to come down to coaching and game plan. I don't know what is being taught at training, but it's like our guys are scared to improvise .....scared to throw it around ....Spontaneity is being coached out of them ....... This seems evident by the general decline in form of our one and only X player ...Kearney. But maybe these players are just too rare these days, because there's just no place for them in the defense orientated NRL. They mightn't have the body shape and beep test skills to handle Rickie's Up and In defense.
In closing, the shyt we dish up doesn't endear the team to fans. Us die hards will still stick around, but bringing new fans to the sharks, and to the game of rugby league in general is difficult when you dish up boring shyte week after week.
K i'll stfu ... Discuss if you cbf'd
edit: ftr, it should be noted that I know Ricky does a hell of a lot for the game aswell with his various media gigs. You never hear him talk down the game, and he try's to promote pride in the Aus jumper.
Im talking purely from a "spectacle" point of view.
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