Milne to debut tonight

[jed]

Craig Frawley and Ben Cross are out, David Milne and Jason Smith are in.

Congrats Milne, it's been a long time coming

 

[Macko8]

excellant debut from milne tonight.....ale debuted last week....we could well see another debuting this week.....hopefully raston.

 

[jed]

Neither Raston and Hinchcliff would look too much out of place in 1st grade IMO. After his last few games, I'd be happy to see Croker replace Kahler in the 2nd row, with Hinchcliff to lock.

 

[Stuart]

Neither Raston and Hinchcliff would look too much out of place in 1st grade IMO. After his last few games, I'd be happy to see Croker replace Kahler in the 2nd row, with Hinchcliff to lock.

I would be happy with that, Raston to take Williams place on the bench, i dont think Williams is fit enough yet..

 

[Macko8]

yea true....williams needs to work a tad on his fitness...but he had a couple of good runs....raston i think should of made his FG debut already.

 

[lukethejedi]

living in melbourne and not having cable i cant watch the games. looking at the stats kahler performed well making 42 tackes which i thought was a fair effort. what did he do that was so wrong tonight that everyone is jumping all over him.

 

[brenno]

living in melbourne and not having cable i cant watch the games. looking at the stats kahler performed well making 42 tackes which i thought was a fair effort. what did he do that was so wrong tonight that everyone is jumping all over him.

Kahler has possibly the worst hands in the NRL for a foward. He spilled the pill again during several crucial times of the match. He also is constantly driven backwards in tackles (even tonight he was smashed a couple of times by Thurston of all people) and needs to put on some beef. Imo he is bench standard at best with those shocking hands.

 

[albi]

Kahler is strong in defense, but needs more work on ball control. It will come.

 

[Mal Meninga]

Milne was solid, made one decent scoot to relieve pressure at a critical time.
Kahler is a workhorse but isn't big enough, we've already got one skinny forward in Thommo, don't need anymore.

 

[Timbo]

Easy on Kahler brenno, catching the ball in that quagmire wouldn't have been easy at pace.

But he does need some work on it, not enough to have him axed tho IMO.

 

[Macko8]

kahler is only going to get better.....his opening first few games of this season were bloddy excellant..it was however his first game bak to FG last nite though..beef him up a bit though true dat.all in all effective forward....i wouldnt call thommo skinny.....these two blokes(kahler,thommo) have by far been the key forwards of the first few rounds.

 

[Macko8]

kahler is only going to get better.....his opening first few games of this season were bloddy excellant..it was however his first game bak to FG last nite though..beef him up a bit though true dat.all in all an effective forward....i wouldnt call thommo skinny.....these two blokes(kahler,thommo) have by far been the key forwards of the first few rounds....i mean christ there getting the job done arn't they.

 

[TiTTieS_[CNTDN]]

Why was Frawley out?

 

[thickos]

Broke a fingernail or something?

Deadset a waste of money at this stage, 4 games out of him and one lone try... hopefully he gets a decent run at some stage!

 

[Macko8]

Broke a fingernail or something?

Deadset a waste of money at this stage, 4 games out of him and one lone try... hopefully he gets a decent run at some stage!

yeah if he does get a decent run combined with a decent game plan to attack he will be an asset at the raiders....but nah no where near a waste of cash.

 

[legend]

Frawley sucks. Dud signing of the year.

 

[Macko8]

Frawley sucks. Dud signing of the year.

i can only laugh at that, give tha bloke a break, his been out injured most rounds to start the season...his just got to get some form back. like to see how you'd shape up if you had the majority of the season out injured.

 

[Raider_69]

dunno about legend but i think i could cope with being paided 220k a year to sit on my arse and pull out of a match if i so much as get abit of a sniffles

 

[jed]

Frawley sucks. Dud signing of the year.

Dead right there, but on balance we've gotten much better value out of Jason Smith and Matt Adamson than I think any of us could have ever imagined. Even still though, each player on the team should pull their own weight, rather than weighing up the overall value of our recruits.

 

[legend]

Frawley has given us nothing and I find it hard to be sympathetic to a player who is constatnly ruled out for what look to be the most trivial injuries. Brittle is an understatement and either the player doesn't prepare properly for every match, is a bit too precious or extremely unlucky.

His career at the Broncos was exactly the same which is why they let him walk.