Match Discussion: Round 25 vs Brisbane @ Suncorp Stadium

[Seage]

How many tries have we bombed today.

 

[Burns]

Best bombed that?

 

[perverse]

Best bombed that?

Did all the hard work and then didn't back himself to get over the line. Bizarre.

 

[Alex28]

Have you watched the last 30 minutes? We’ve actually outscored the Broncos.

imagien if we rested Ponga and Pearce, this forum would be much happier knowing it’s actually mostly reserves out there. Not expecting to win but excited to see them in action.

Its perspective.

I’ve kinda watched it. It’s a game we were never going to win. We surrendered defence when we named the team. It’s just a nothing game for us.

Perspective is looking back over the last 5 or 6 weeks and realising that is much more relevant to next week.

 

[perverse]

Well, we talked about how the focus was on our attack this week. Coaches did a great job there.

 

[Johns Magic]

It's not even close. Sione is ordinary, Mann is diabolical.

Not only was Sione better…but even when he was out of form, you could chuck him on as bench middle and tell him to just truck it up and make tackles and he’d do a job.

Mann can’t be hidden.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Cheers for the 1st half Ziggy

 

[Jono078]

Well, we talked about how the focus was on our attack this week. Coaches did a great job there.

Our reserve team scored 18 points in 35 minutes. Pretty good mate.

I reckon it’s gotta be a record for offloads for us, none which led to tries mind you.

 

[perverse]

I’ve kinda watched it. It’s a game we were never going to win. We surrendered defence when we named the team. It’s just a nothing game for us.

Perspective is looking back over the last 5 or 6 weeks and realising that is much more relevant to next week.

Why play our spine and tell the media all week that we're focusing everything on getting our attack right, then? Do you think that worked well?

 

[slotmachine]

As trendy as it is to shit on the coaches playing finals two years running after an 18 year gap counts for something.

Zero confidence they can fix the attack though, and I mean for next year, not next week.

 

[TooheysNew]

What did you guys think was going to happen?

We didn’t need the full team out there copping dog shots like Albert Kelly’s third man in effort on Klemmer. It’s a training run - nothing more, nothing less.

Nothing to lose your heads over as per typical form of this forum.

This is going to age like milk by next weekend.

 

[Loose Cannon]

I think I'd actually prefer Sione to Mann tbh

I’d prefer shaving my head with a cheese grater than either of the two.

 

[perverse]

Our reserve team scored 18 points in 35 minutes. Pretty good mate.

I reckon it’s gotta be a record for offloads for us, none which led to tries mind you.

Didn't hurt that the Broncos put the cue in the rack, and it's not like it was from any sort of structure or attacking prowess. A few individual efforts does not a good attacking team make.

 

[Bartwah]

Who wants a positive? Josh King - 186m in 53 minutes

 

[Jono078]

As trendy as it is to shit on the coaches playing finals two years running after an 18 year gap counts for something.

Zero confidence they can fix the attack though, and I mean for next year, not next week.

This is true and a nice reminder.

Please don’t take this as me comparing us to a Ferrari but it feels like we’ve made the finals by winning a race against a bunch of Toyota Yaris’. Limiting ourselves to 100km/h an hour when you know we can go double.

 

[Loose Cannon]

It's not even close. Sione is ordinary, Mann is diabolical.

Not only was Sione better…but even when he was out of form, you could chuck him on as bench middle and tell him to just truck it up and make tackles and he’d do a job.

Mann can’t be hidden.

Agree with this. Sione in the back row was adequate, awful at centre.

Mann is awful at Rugby League.

 

[Jono078]

Didn't hurt that the Broncos put the cue in the rack, and it's not like it was from any sort of structure or attacking prowess. A few individual efforts does not a good attacking team make.

Ugh, I knew I should’ve mentioned that was sarcasm. Thought you’d pick up on it since we are usually on the same wave length of thinking around this team haha.

 

[perverse]

As trendy as it is to shit on the coaches playing finals two years running after an 18 year gap counts for something.

Zero confidence they can fix the attack though, and I mean for next year, not next week.

It does, particularly given the circumstances of the season.

However, it does also just botch over the real problems, too. I think it's actually more frustrating in some respects, that we're just wasting the opportunities. Still, you do have to make the finals regularly to get anywhere - and at least we're starting to tick that box. Baby steps, I guess.

The only way the attack gets better is with a complete overhaul of all our systems. That's going to mean new attacking coaches. If we run with the same muppets, we can expect the same muppetry.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Who wants a positive? Josh King - 186m in 53 minutes

And of course were losing him

 

[Jono078]

And of course were losing him

To keep on the positive side of things, it seems like Jirah, Saulo and even Croker should be able to fill in his role adequately.