Match Discussion: Round 6 vs Wests Tigers @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton / Awabakal

[Loose Cannon]

We have a great option in our assistant coach.

Agreed per what we have heard. I have no idea what he looks like though. Is that the bald bloke in the box today. I didnt see Blake Green or the other bloke in there today. Interesting development.

 

[Alex28]

We have a great option in our assistant coach.

Who? They are all liable for today’s performance.

Do you suggest our attacking coach Blake Green? Isn’t our attack doing well this year…

 

[Loose Cannon]

f**king yuk. I know the people on Facebook and like love saying ‘well could you do any better?’
I’m an overweight 33 year old and I could literally do better then some of the those oxygen thieves parading as footballers. f**k them, f**k them so much.

You have me covered, but I'm just short of 48 and I’d manage on today performance with currently 2 severed tendons in my hand. I could still go left without the strength to hit the fence.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Who? They are all liable for today’s performance.

Do you suggest our attacking coach Blake Green? Isn’t our attack doing well this year…

I think he meant Brian McDermott

 

[Woody90]

Yeah I don’t think replacing AOB with one of his assistants will change things very much at all. If you’re going to sack him it would need to be for an external. If I had to pick between McDermott and Green though it would obviously have to be McDermott. At least the defence is OK. Green’s more likely to be fired than get a promotion currently.

 

[Alex28]

I think he meant Brian McDermott

He has to also wear some responsibility for the rubbish today.

I actually think Blake Green would make a great coach, but you couldn’t punt AOB for him at this point.

 

[T-Boon]

the standard of NRL coach out there is sad. So many of these dudes are just ordinary and inferior versions of Bellamy or something. Minimal/zero fresh ideas coming through.

 

[Yosh]

Yeah I don’t think replacing AOB with one of his assistants will change things very much at all. If you’re going to sack him it would need to be for an external. If I had to pick between McDermott and Green though it would obviously have to be McDermott. At least the defence is OK. Green’s more likely to be fired than get a promotion currently.

McDermott has won comps in the ESL. Can it worse than AOB?

 

[Alex28]

McDermott has won comps in the ESL. Can it worse than AOB?

He’s been here three years now. He wears some of the blame if you are being serious.

 

[Yosh]

He’s been here three years now. He wears some of the blame if you are being serious.

Does he? Why? AoB's style hasn't changed even before McDermott arrived. We seem more steely in defense which I think he is responsible for.

 

[Woody90]

McDermott has won comps in the ESL. Can it worse than AOB?

Very different comp. Also our next coaching decision needs to be thought out and not just throwing someone in and hoping for the best as “it can’t be worse than AOB”. We get it wrong and need to sack another coach within 2 years and no decent coach or players will ever come near us.

Just giving the reigns to an assistant isn’t going to change anything significantly. You can hope he might have a very different coaching philosophy than AOB but I can almost guarantee he doesn’t. McDermott is very much also a hard nosed defensive first coach and appears to be AOB’s right hand man.

Id still much prefer him over Green…but I think after a few years virtually the same staff we’d be a lot better going in a completely different direction if they can’t get things back on track.

 

[Rod]

How long will it take the “experts” to realise Ponga doesn’t work first off the ruck? He needs to be 2-3 wide.

He was doing it early in the season and it worked well.

It doesn't need to be all the time but doing it sometimes gets him involved and adds an extra thing for the defence to worry about rather than just rushing up on him out wide every time.

 

[Loose Cannon]

He was doing it early in the season and it worked well.

It doesn't need to be all the time but doing it sometimes gets him involved and adds an extra thing for the defence to worry about rather than just rushing up on him out wide every time.

Which would be fine if he/we/they didn’t foreshadow his involvements so far in advance. I can see it via television two plays prior, you can’t tell me an opposing first grade coach can’t prepare his team for it if they’re halfway competent.

 

[Woody90]

Points will gather again for the knights.

Given we have a hard end to the season it’s really likely they won’t be able to push themselves into the finals last minute this year, which tbh is probably a good thing.

Congrats on the win btw.

 

[Rod]

Which would be fine if he/we/they didn’t foreshadow his involvements so far in advance. I can see it via television two plays prior, you can’t tell me an opposing first grade coach can’t prepare his team for it if they’re halfway competent.

I'm not sure the answer to this is to give his involvements even *less* variety. Surely that would be even easier to telegraph in advance? Which is what we're seeing.

The Joey-era Knights were at their best when he touched the ball several times per set. Most of these touches weren't actually that special but the mere fact that he was touching the ball meant the defence had to constantly aware of what was happening.

Watch us in the redzone and almost certainly Ponga will get the ball once per set. And when he does he'll at second receiver trying to set up Gagai or Best. That kind of predictability is a dream for opposition coaches.

 

[Knight Tales]

Alex. 6 points in three weeks. 66 against. You need to truly start looking at this realistically and rationally. You cannot just say it is the players.

10 points! I stand corrected.

 

[Nuke]

I feel for anyone who paid to watch this live. Appalling.

I watched it free on tv and still feel ripped off.

I can barely wait for them to come play here in Perth in June and stink it up, so that when I hurl abuse at them, they can actually hear me.