Match Discussion: Round 18 vs Manly @ 4 Pines Park, Brookvale

[perverse]

Forum whipping boy Fitzgibbon has been great tonight

Is that why he's been walking back during our scramble defence? And why our edges have been shredded for the last 40 minutes?

Hardly good. His only good moment was the Ponga try.

 

[General Knight]

Man our players are falling to the ground and getting injured. Such a knights thing.

 

[slotmachine]

Very okay with him making some mistakes trying to make something happen.

Dane also looks injured.

Negative, he shouldn't ever be at first receiver.

Throws a pass at milfs feet, hands it over on the second, kicks it dead etc. Concentrate on being a fullback and running the ball.

Just on milf, this game just confirms he's not the special sauce that will make us a good side. Some very lazy efforts.

 

[Yosh]

Forum whipping boy Fitzgibbon has been great tonight

Great? He has been okay. That's the bare minimum standard he needs to play to stay in first grade. Have you seen their backrowers? Some of them have been great. What standards are these?

 

[ryan.a87]

Forum whipping boy Fitzgibbon has been great tonight

Can’t argue with that….he’s been the least of our worries

 

[Jono078]

So the Roosters will probably belt us next week for 2 big reasons:

1. Round 1 revenge
2. We just allowed Manly to jump them tonight and kick the Roosters back out of the top 8.

Next week will be so much fun.

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Is that why he's been walking back during our scramble defence? And why our edges have been shredded for the last 40 minutes?

Hardly good. His only good moment was the Ponga try.

You're kidding yeah? He's saved 3 tries and run hard on the edge all night

He's responsible for Tuala missing tackles is he? Or Sasagi and Gagai on the other side of the field? Lol bloody hell

 

[perverse]

Negative, he shouldn't ever be at first receiver.

Throws a pass at milfs feet, hands it over on the second, kicks it dead etc. Concentrate on being a fullback and running the ball.

Just on milf, this game just confirms he's not the special sauce that will make us a good side. Some very lazy efforts.

To be fair, if our actual first receiver was getting into first receiver then he wouldn't have to. Clune has the visibility of a freshly cleaned pane of glass.

 

[perverse]

You're kidding yeah? He's saved 3 tries and run hard on the edge all night

He's responsible for Tuala missing tackles is he? Or Sasagi and Gagai on the other side of the field? Lol bloody hell

And switched off completely at crucial moments too. If he did 20% better and did it every week for 26 weeks he'd almost be a first grader.

 

[The Axe of Druss]

To be fair, if our actual first receiver was getting into first receiver then he wouldn't have to. Clune has the visibility of a freshly cleaned pane of glass.

So he has good visibility?

 

[slotmachine]

Klem our best again. He must be real sick of this shit

 

[Yosh]

I reckon if we had DCE instead of Clune tonight, we would have won. We need a real halfback.

 

[The Axe of Druss]

Even Klemmer gives no f**ks now. Smiling and relaxed after the whistle

That's a really bad sign

 

[perverse]

So he has good visibility?

You know glass is transparent, right? Like you can see right through it. Why would you try to start an argument on such a dumb, off hand comment? It's not hard to parse my point unless you've truly got rocks in your head

 

[SamSepi0l]

Can't wait to sign Milford for a 3yr deal

 

[Apey]

I actually do see some positives today. I'll sound a bit like AOB saying it, but i thought our line speed was good tonight while we were in the game, Ponga was fantastic. Dom and Friz going off completely shattered our edges.

We were good for 50 minutes, which is probably longer than we're usually good for - but our last 30 was up there with the suckiest.

 

[slotmachine]

We were good for 50 minutes, which is probably longer than we're usually good for - but our last 30 was up there with the suckiest.

Good for 38 minutes by my count.

Then the dumb came to the fore.

 

[The Axe of Druss]

You know glass is transparent, right? Like you can see right through it. Why would you try to start an argument on such a dumb, off hand comment? It's not hard to parse my point unless you've truly got rocks in your head

It was a joke princess

Go have a valium

 

[Zoidberg]

Good to be brought back to earth after the high of Wednesday (QLDer).
So disappointed with that 2nd half performance. Defence is atrocious.
Milf is not showing much to make me want to keep him. Yes we need halves, but we need the right halves.
I didn’t even get angry during the match, just kept asking myself “wtf” every time Manly made beaks or offloads at will.

 

[perverse]

Good to be brought back to earth after the high of Wednesday (QLDer).
So disappointed with that 2nd half performance. Defence is atrocious.
Milf is not showing much to make me want to keep him. Yes we need halves, but we need the right halves.
I didn’t even get angry during the match, just kept asking myself “wtf” every time Manly made beaks or offloads at will.

The sad thing is there are no "right halves" available that we're a realistic shot of getting.