Rd1: 405pm Parra v Storm GAME DAY THREAD in Melbourne 9/3/25

[King-Gutho94]

Nice shape with double decoys / run options, with ball receiver in the middle....something' different we havent seen before

Really I thought we have looked flat in attack inside the 20 with no players moving in motion

 

[T-Boon]

We need to move on from a few of the lads and dangle a big carrot at a fella like Munster. An old pro.

 

[the phantom menace]

Or will it give our youngsters confidence for next week?

They're pretty stupid if they can take confidence from that when Storm had put the cue in the rack at half time - perhaps stupider than the average rugby league fans?

 

[Zoso]

Really I thought we have looked flat in attack inside the 20 with no players moving in motion

I think they were spent by the time the got a chance.

 

[Zoso]

On the upside, they didn’t out 70 on us!

 

[T-Boon]

It is one of those performances where you hope to hear that diarrhea had ripped through the club all week.

 

[The Predictor]

Seriously he looks totally disinterested

Will be interesting how this plays out, regarding brown

 

[The Predictor]

It is one of those performances where you hope to hear that diarrhea had ripped through the club all week.

It did……they were shitty

 

[84 Baby]

As much as I’ve given shit to Drown & Paulo (that’s more involvement compared to pay cheque) & Kelma, individually I don’t think anyone was especially bad. It was the teamwork in defence (& then chasing offence after we fell apart) that was the culprit.
f**king awful line speed (there was one set especially where we didn’t advance off the 10m mark once in set) across the field. Scum were tearing us on edges, not because the middles weren’t moving across (they weren’t) but because the edges weren’t moving up either. Scum were getting 10 metres to run at a non-moving defence.
We all say defence wins matches and look at Smugs and say wow they give no time to the opposition. We were the antithesis of that today.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

There's a lot to like about Iongi

*iot to yike

 

[Jake the snake]

I have a feeling that Brown has decided he’s leaving and his squirrel brain has shrunk to a point where he can’t cope.

He has never been more of a passenger than today.

What a terrible and lazy display from
Someone we needed to step up.

That’s a good thing

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It did……they were shitty

*schnitty

 

[Eelogical]

I had a real bad feeling about this season. I even cancelled my season tickets after 6 years. Our pack is terrible. It won't be better when Lane and Cartwright come back in.

I don't. I never expected a lot once we decided to to move in a different direction. We all watched the game, our weaknesses were exposed by a well honed Storm team. Ioni impressed me, so did Smith. We will evolve rather than stagnate.

 

[84 Baby]

Also we have zero leadership. I didn’t think Gutho was a great leader but there was no communication and no one trying to resolve the problems.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We need to move on from a few of the lads and dangle a big carrot at a fella like Munster. An old pro.

Cameron or Lindsay Collins?

 

[Avenger]

That’s a good thing

Mate he needs to go. He is mentally piss weak. We don’t need him.

 

[Happy MEel]

After that insipid performance I’d go with this next week:


1. Iongi
2. ⁠Russell
3. ⁠Penisini
4. ⁠Renisini
5. ⁠Lomax
6. ⁠Drown
7. ⁠Hawkins maybe?
8. ⁠Junior
9. ⁠Hands
10. ⁠Williams
11. ⁠Carty
12. ⁠Matto
13. ⁠Hopgood
14. ⁠Smith
15. ⁠Doorey
16. ⁠Offa
17. ⁠Tuivati

 

[Eelogical]

In fairness to us, Melbourne would be thrashing 80% of the league playing like this

We were never going to win it, we all knew that. This was more about where we landed after triple by-pass surgery.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Also we have zero leadership. I didn’t think Gutho was a great leader but there was no communication and no one trying to resolve the problems.

Yep no leadership who was the voice out there today.

Gutho is past it yesterday showed as much.

But we lost our 12 games without Gutho when he was here by an average of 20 points.

If you want to include today that average just got worse.

I thought Iongi was one of our better players

 

[DaveMc]

I don’t want to sugarcoat it, because that first half must be the worst half of football I’ve ever seen us play, but there were a few things to like today. Ryley Smith looks decent and his enthusiasm is good. Iongi was pretty sound for the most part, and Penisini and Russell did pretty well together (Penisini particularly had some strong efforts in attack). Other than that, thank god Melbourne eased up in the second half, because that could’ve been overwhelmingly embarrassing, rather than just regular embarrassing.