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I don’t think Avenger was asking if you wanted to lead it
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I don’t think Avenger was asking if you wanted to lead it
If you don't try to understand the game you never will. You'll just remain angry and frustrated with it.
We conceded another try after halftime, so no. Jake Arthur had nothing to do with any of the momentum shifts. The main changes were the scorelines. At 26-12 we dropped off (and the Titans fired up) and once we were behind (28-26) we switched back on. This is proved by the change in our defence. But go and blame the bloke whose side of the field wasn't getting torn apart.
Matterson to centre, Blake to wing. Stone / Maka / Kaufusi play extra minutes in the middle. No disruption to our halves.
Who am I throwing under the bus? I already said Dylan Brown is a better player than Arthur. If I was picking the side next week it would be:
The key question. Matterson and Cartwright aren't backs. They shouldn't be defending in the three widest positions. Neither should Marata Niukore.
At the ground it was quite obvious that the Tits fancied themselves going wide with their speed. We were lucky to have Dylan and Penisini out wide to shut down their raids. Did you notice that and do you think that Matterson could have handled it ? Campbell was slippery AF and merkins like Kelly and the two wingers were hard to handle.
BA injured him by overloading him and playing him too young and playing him too early coming back from injury!
I can't. He does things so slowly like when corey Pearson thought he was our halfback
Lol, so you even know what’s going on in the players heads now?? What’s said at halftime?? Our attack went to shit once he came on that’s a fact. Sure we defended better but you would hope so when we have over 60% of the ball.
You seem to be tad fixated about Arthur. Who would have been a better 17th man ?
I reckon he would have done a good enough job. Matterson would have been on the left. Titans were tearing apart our right side defence. (Papalii, Moses, Penisini and Simmonsen). He has played left centre before plenty of times at the Roosters, both starting and off the bench.
He scored a try in the corner ffs.
I didn't say there was no kicking, I said there was barely any kick pressure. This meant the same bloke could do all the kicking even though everyone knew who would be getting the ball on the last. The only time there was consistent pressure was for field goals.
He's not a 14, he's a 7. Actually yesterday he was a 17.
He played centre when he was 22 and fancied himself as a 5/8. He's now 27 and built like a brick shithouse. You really think that he has the lateral movement and fast feet to play centre better than Dylan ?
