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Rd10: 750pm Parra v Dolphins GAME DAY THREAD @ Commbank 8/5/25

DaveMc

Juniors
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Hopgood is f**king terrible. Brown dumb as. Guymer is a slug
Hopgood has never been very good. He’s copped a lot of praise for being busy, but his skills are very average. Much like we’re seeing with Iongi (and dare I saw, Waqa Blake), there’s a reason that they were playing reserve grade at Penrith and we didn’t have to struggle hard to sign them.
 

Timana

Juniors
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Hopgood has never been very good. He’s copped a lot of praise for being busy, but his skills are very average. Much like we’re seeing with Iongi (and dare I saw, Waqa Blake), there’s a reason that they were playing reserve grade at Penrith and we didn’t have to struggle hard to sign them.
I think hopgood is missing his offload game. Without it, he doesn't offer much else

Like i said, our bench pack is better than our run on pack

We have no go forward
 

Soto

Bench
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If Papalii can't get a game ahead of Ionghi then Ryles will prove he's clueless...so many errors not only this game but all of them....not buying he's new to 1st grade....been playing footy his whole life. Ryles signed him so he has to play him
 

Noise

Coach
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I think hopgood is missing his offload game. Without it, he doesn't offer much else

Like i said, our bench pack is better than our run on pack

We have no go forward
Other teams have all worked him out. If you wrap the ball he’s got nothing else. No speed, no footwork or agility and no real power. Just wrap him up and it’s an easy dead play
 

DaveMc

Juniors
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I think hopgood is missing his offload game. Without it, he doesn't offer much else

Like i said, our bench pack is better than our run on pack

We have no go forward
That last 5-10 minutes reminded me of the backend of 2009, where we’d realised that playing to systems wasn’t working so the idea was to throw the ball around and see how it goes. It worked then and we looked great late in the game tonight, but that sort of reckless shit only happens when the actual gameplan and systems aren’t good enough in the first place. It’s not a great reflection on the coaching.
 
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What an absolute shocking team. A total embarrassment. For the last two years I’ve been saying that the management Jim and MON are turning us into the tigers. Not only are we the Tigers but we have gone so many steps further.

These absolute amateurs in charge are so horrific. They have no idea. 2000 people at the game tonight. Why isn’t anyone questioning the management?

good governance Jim
 

Timana

Juniors
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Other teams have all worked him out. If you wrap the ball he’s got nothing else. No speed, no footwork or agility and no real power. Just wrap him up and it’s an easy dead play
It's not that. I think Ryles has told him not to offload. We are no longer playing an offload game. Even jnr doesn't offload

We don't have a back 5 that makes meters and we have no forward power
 
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