Rd 11 vs Warriors: Live Game Day Thread - 18th May 2018

[hindy111]

Tepai days are numbered out wide. Ram might be right on this one. Dam i thought hed come good.

 

[Bazal]

Is Ma'u's form a result of moving into the middle, or something else? Seems odd to me that he's all of a sudden going on great runs after moving infield. Doesn't it maybe suggest the space out wide was restricted by other factors?

I think he started finding form on the edge, before he spent significant time in the middle, but I can't really remember.

I've been drinking a bit.

 

[Happy MEel]

The four of them never played together this year. And of course there was something terribly wrong with our form at the start of the year, as proven by the 50 point loss to fellow bottom dwellers Manly. I think at least a couple of people have overstayed their welcome at our club, and the coach might not be one of them.

It depends who’s missing. For a team with a lot of attacking talent they can afford to lose some attacking players. The Warriors were only missing three players from their top 17. We were missing seven.

Your talking best case scenarios. A coach needs to plan for injuries throughout the year. Several times we had 3 of the 4 playing, (I think at time the other was playing at wenty).

Serious question...are we an attacking team or a defensive team?

 

[Bazal]

Hmm but what if mau wore 10?

He could. It's just a number, I suppose. There are subtle differences in the roles, which is why I put the bloke who started as a prop at prop, but I guess it probably doesn't make a huge difference.

 

[hindy111]

Id chose team base on offload ability ssnd say pop those balls boys .

 

[Bazal]

Id chose team base on offload ability ssnd say pop those balls boys .

Gotta have go forward to offload though, otherwise you're just putting pressure on yourself.

 

[hindy111]

Team looks worried unhappy and not like they are enjoying themself or having fun anymore. Its become a job.
Theyl snap out of it at some point.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I think he started finding form on the edge, before he spent significant time in the middle, but I can't really remember.

I've been drinking a bit.

It started when he was said to have moved to the middle, but he may in fact have moved back to the edge in that game due to injuries.

 

[hineyrulz]

The only bloke who played poorly was Jennings, and he's usually one of our best players. We have been mostly shit this year but in this game we were just very unlucky. We also panicked a bit after conceding that third try, and went right away from the game plan.

Yeah we were just unlucky, it's due to change.

It's very exciting.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

But Pou said Parramatta are one maybe two signings away from a premiership side

One or two signings plus the seven missing first graders from tonight. You don't think nine players would've made a difference? We have the worst wingers in the f**king competition. And when Peni Terepo's your best attacking forward you must be missing some players.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Hasn’t French played in the halves in juniors? I can’t see him displacing gutho, maybe he can make the transition like Cronk did.

French with his awesome kicking game? He's a fullback or nothing.

 

[hineyrulz]

Or kicked to the curb.

Or curb stomped.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

French with his awesome kicking game? He's a fullback or nothing.

He's 17 ffs... plenty of time to work on his kicking.

 

[IFR33K]

French with his awesome kicking game? He's a fullback or nothing.

Geez mate, I wonder how cooper cronks kicking game was off the wing.

 

[hineyrulz]

I think our goal line defence is good. Every team concedes some tries. Today there was only one instance of poor team defence, and that was the last try after we gave up. The previous three tries were due to a horrific individual effort (Gennings on Hiku), a horrific bounce, and the Fusitua try at the start was just very good execution, and nobody's fault.

Our goal line attack is the problem, and without attacking forwards like Brown, Williams and Evans we are relying on others for quick play-the-balls and offloads.

LOL it's not just a river in Egypt, the first two times they were down out end they scored. And then after a mountain of possession and a lead the first time they got down our half again they scored.

Twist the stats and move the goal posts all you like but our defence was embarrassing, but i suppose compared to our attack it is really rally good.

It's very exciting.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I just don't believe that Manu has suddenly become a different player after a couple of years. I reckon his performance in the middle is showing us what we've been missing.

 

[hineyrulz]

Not a lot of point getting quick play the balls if we don't know what the f**k to do with the ball thereafter.

I'll pay more attention to "Evans the Giant's" offloads next time I'm at Ringrose watching him running around with the likes of Vae and Piki Rogers ffs....

Pou in damage control tonight, the club should br paying his penalty rates in his defending of the club.

If only we could defend like Pou.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yeah ... im just saying when half that plod is out injured then you plod Beau in the middle, not out wide

Except with Brown missing we need Ma'u playing his role in the middle. And then on the edge we don't have Williams or Edwards available so we have to pick more defensive forwards in Moeroa and Scott out wide. Moeroa normally spends most of his minutes in the middle tackling. Scott is no longer in our top 17.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I dunno that he has to be a battering ram at prop, though. Peni certainly finds time to throw some passes and use his footwork (although to be fair we generally wish he wouldn't lol).

Terepo tends to make those angled runs and pass the ball when he plays 'lock', as he did when Scott went off and Ma'u switched back to the edge today. Terepo was the one throwing the pass to Ma'u for the try.

 

[hineyrulz]

The coaching staff had no answers after 4 weeks

I'm just glad they don't make mistakes, imagine how bad would they be going if they did???