Poupou Escobar
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Ferguson will be gone next year and the coach will still be here.
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Ferguson will be gone next year and the coach will still be here.
I'd dump him to reserve grade this year because he has more downside than upside.
Ferguson is 12th in post contact metres, 8th in running metres and still pretty decent at trampling over defenders close to the line. If he didn’t have the defensive lapses he’d be in origin contention. I don’t know if it’s a player thing or the way the team is being coached.
You think Ryan Carr is ready to step up?
And his defensive reads would be the worst in the comp. He's up there with Shane Whereat.
Origin experience by squad (current players in bold):
If the Eels were performing like the Panthers/Storm are then we’d have more origin players. The point of contention is whether our players are/aren’t good enough or whether they’re not getting selected because the team isn’t performing as well as the other aforementioned teams. I’d argue the latter. I don’t think we’re performing as well in attack and defence as we could be with the roster we have whereas teams like the Panthers and Storm are and then some with their rosters.
Well we don't know this for sure, nor can we. All we know is that we are winning as many (or more) games than teams below us on the ladder but not having our players' ability recognised by Origin selectors. If we're only winning because of our great roster why are so few playing Origin this year? Why did so few play last year? Twelve of the blokes who played in Origin game 1 played fewer finals matches than our two.
The players being chosen are playing in teams that are currently performing better than ours. Also the players being chosen were in teams who performed better than we did last season. Teams don’t perform well because they have origin players. Players make origin teams because they perform well.
Except many players are chosen from teams performing worse than ours. Twelve of the NSW players named today are from teams below us on the ladder. Seven of them are in teams outside the top four. Four of them made their Origin debuts before they'd ever played a finals match. Their teams' success can't have been a factor.
You can still be a standout player on a lower ranked team. You don’t think the Panthers having 5 players chosen was based on their teams success?
I'd expect a team that's lost only two games in over 18 months to have a few Origin class players. I don't think Ivan Cleary went there and suddenly became a better coach than Robinson or Bennett. His son is one of the best players in the game. But yes fringe Origin players (like Isaah Yeo) don't get picked unless their team is going well, but that describes our sole NSW rep, Paulo. How about players who get picked regardless of how the team is performing; merkins like Tedesco, Saifiti, both Trbojevics, Cleary, Wighton and Haas. We haven't had one of these since Hayne. Junior Paulo certainly isn't one. He didn't get picked until he was nearly 27, and only after his team won 30 games in two years.
No it doesn't.
Shane Whereat minus the speed (and hair).
Semen plop, I’ve always said Sterlo is a very average judge of a footballer. But there is no one better to disect a game and how to break down a defence. Which is what he did yesterday, and let’s face it our defence is pretty f**king easy to break down.
If they can't even perform basic tasks like work together properly in defence then maybe they aren't the most advanced of players. We need a coach to teach them what they should have learnt in under 12s, but no they are a squad that should win a premiership.
Nope. Our squad is very capable, but it isn't as good as the best teams. Thats been consistently mentioned on here whenever anyone loses perspective. No-one is suggesting that our squad is shit, so calm the f**k down and finish your first bottle of Kraken.
Agree he needs to be sacked, but do we *know* that Dunster has better D instincts ?
