Poupou Escobar
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I don't think there were any better options. Maybe Opacic? But then we would have no cover in the halves.
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I don't think there were any better options. Maybe Opacic? But then we would have no cover in the halves.
The confusing thing is Jake dosent run the seconds either. Never did. Rankin does. Thats very obvious. The best move Id suggest would be to shift Rankin to fullback in the 2s and team Jake with Perham. That way it becomes Jakes team and we will then see if he can do the job or at worst develop into it. Handing him the reins in the 1s is not good for Jake or the NRL team. He needs time to develop.
Then I was talking about Chad Townsend being good enough to win a grand final. Why do you keep making up new hypotheticals that have nothing to do with that? Players losing grand finals don't apply and neither do players who won but had a shocker or won but only played 5 minutes. The reason I'm talking about Townsend is because he is comparable to Jake Arthur from a talent perspective.
And Bea's comment last year when Jakey got the key's to the first grade side when Moses was out was absolute BS, anyone watching reserve grade could see it was Rankins team. The bloke is doing literally everything he can to do or keep his son in the side, it's the worst kind of nepotism it's up there with Bozo picking his son or Chris Anderson picking his.
IMO he covers the halves as well as JA. He’s far more creative and with Moses and Reed both having solid kicking games, we don’t need a long kicking game from him if he needs to move into the halves. However, we wouldn’t need him to if we lose an outside back like we did today, as he can cover there. We can leave our first grader halves in their rightful position.
I think it would have been better to have Cartwright/Brown on the bench and either moving Matterson to centre or moving Brown to centre and Matterson to five eighth.
Nope now I'm having a go at you for thinking it's the winger's fault when his edge is outnumbered. It happens to every winger on every team. The teams it happens to the least are the ones with a lot of toilers in the middle. That describes the Panthers but doesn't describe us. We are very big in the middle and our hooker plays long minutes. That means we struggle to make repeat efforts and push across in defence.
No arguments here. Having a reserve grader in the halves though halted our ability to score tries.
You don’t seem to understand that winning a grand final by itself doesn’t tell you anything about your ability as a player. You might be a good player or you might have just been surrounded by really good team mates even if you’re a mug. Any NRL player playing in a grand final is potentially good enough to win one. Brad Arthur might name you (i.e Pou) on the bench and you could end up as a grand final winner despite never taking the field. That’s why it’s not always a very useful metric.
Are you going to emoji your emojis?
Genuinely sounds like a nothing story - they were together outside the Albion late at night, some road worker had a go a Hayne, Brown had words with the bloke, and nothing physical is said to have happened.
Here’s a tip, don’t kick in the in goal on the full and it’s not a potential outcome. It was a big f**k up and if his dad wasn’t the coach he’d get reamed at training this week for it.
