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That's the thing. They'll probably come out next week and blow the roosters off the park. But you can't play like that. You can't aim up for the top teams while treating the bottom teams with contempt. Melbourne win consistently because they never take their opposition for granted. Every member of their team is willing to do the hard work required to get the win. Tonight I saw a team that bought into its own hype. The same team that lost 5 games in a row to start the year.
Ramien has become absolutely obsessed with initiating contact and bumping his man off, problem is most of the time he does this and then heads back inside into the meat of the defence, it actually reminds me of Gagai who used to make a run, break 4-5 tackles but only make 10m
Gavet's two penalties literally turned the game, whilst I agree we didn't play well that's where it was loss
I agree. Injuries playing havoc with our side causing changes throughout. We were pretty lucky during the 6 win run with few injuries and a stable team.
More disappointing than our spoon years? Fmd mate, drama queen much?
He's way too much of a loose cannon for us to carry, whilst he does provide some good 'energy' off the bench he's also a massive penalty machine and can be quite lazy too, at 29-30 years of age he's not going to get much better, that's just who he is as a player. I'd much rather have Jacob Saifiti in his spot who might not have as much mongrel isn't a liability either and has the potential to get better with abit confidence and match fitness under his belt.
My thoughts exactly. Error of the coaching staff that sent the message to go for a try on 2 occasions rather than take the 2.
Yep and that's why the sin bin was particularly unforgivable, firstly to do it 20m out in front of the sticks when you're up by 2 is ridiculous but then to get sin binned knowing that we have 3 middle forwards backing up from origin and just the entire team running low on fuel in general, no excuses and needs to be dropped to send a message that dumb football won't be tolerated
100%, whilst I do like the energy he brings and his aggression it's definitely outweighed by laziness and ill discipline. We have enough class across the park that we don't need a loose cannon to undo the good work, I'd rather someone who we know it's going to do something idiotic when the game is on the line
Yep, flat track bully
100%. Those years we had a garbage team made up of rookies and players on their last legs. There were no expectations around the team whatsoever. This year was supposed to be different. This was supposed to be the year we returned to the finals. So yes, if we miss the finals it will be a hugely disappointing season
