Rd19: Parra v Brisbane GAME DAY thread (18/9/20)

[Gary Gutful]

Based on what I have seen, I'm very comfortable in suggesting he isnt at full fitness.

Any alternative view is just noise.

 

[IFR33K]

I had this merkin cut my hair. I said leave the top wild and just fade the sides low. (I look like a weird crazy guy with my large spectacles) The motherf**ker ruined it. Now I look neat and tidy. merkin

Maybe he’s injured.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yep. It’s irrefutable that he was injured. It’s speculation that he is still injured.

The null hypothesis there is that he is no longer injured, which is itself no less speculative.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Maybe he’s injured.

Nah he was injured, but now we're certain he isn't. He's just become a shit hairdresser.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

When he plays straight our attack improves drastically

yep that’s the biggest problem with our attack at the moment and it is starting from the middle.

yeah Moses is going sideways to much but he is also getting the ball from someone also going sideways to much. Thus putting pressure on Moses to find room.

it seems our passes ( generally from the “block plays” or middles ) to push wide are to deep (Paulo / Nrown do it). We need to play more “flat” / straighter.

Also Moses is running the ball ok, he generally straightens up when he runs - but he rarely passes if he does.

He also needs to get the ball closer to the posts, think run first before feeding gutho. Drive into the line a bit before passing. The backline is getting it to close to the side line. Also it creates room for the edges to “make” decisions in some space.

Paulo/Nrown need to run straight, they are thinking pass before running. It creates no space

etc etc. etc

it’s nothing to major but think it may need an off season to fix

Also Moses needs to fix his kicking game. It’s been pretty poor.

 

[Eelementary]

He did make a few excellent stops in defense also.
Just needs to run hard everytime. Aslong as he does in finals I guess.

Yes, I think he had a pretty good game.

 

[Eelementary]

We are improving, albeit slowly. However without a fit Dylan Brown we will struggle as teams will load up on Moses and Gutho to nullify our attack.

Maybe we will see more of Paulo as a playmaker?

BTW ridiculous charge on Jnr. Watched ch7 news and Brett Kimmorley was saying these type of tackles need to be removed from the game. I have been watching league since 1975 and could not see anything deliberate or wrong in that tackle.

I thought the intent of the NRL crackdown was to get rid of players holding up the player in the tackle, with a third coming in late to pull the player down backwards .

I'm a massive fan of Dylan Brown's, and his being unavailable is a huge loss.

However, we still have Mitchell Moses, Clint Gutherson, and Reed Mahoney - all are creative players, with different strengths.

Mahoney, in particular, is gaining confidence kicking close to the line, and some of his balls to put players into space, and score tries, would have made Cam Smith proud.

Mahoney has also been engaging the markers a lot more lately, creating time, and space, for his team.

Given that Moses, Gutherson, and Mahoney are all available, and they are ably supported by playmaking forwards in Junior Paulo, Nathan Brown, and Ryan Matterson, I reckon Jai Field is a competent 6 to have in the side.

I would still have Smith on the bench, though - I think he has been outstanding the last two weeks.

Against Brisbane, in particular, he made some huge plays - that chargedown, as well as some astute runs out of dummy-half to create some space for his halves.

I would be happy to retain his services, he's been that good, imo.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Maybe he’s injured.

Don't be ridiculous. He said he isn't.

 

[Glenneel]

I can see how the onus should be on the defender to make sure those injuries don't happen. It obviously wasn't intentional (I reckon foul play almost never is) but it could be said to have been careless.

When Drown f**ked his ankle Adam Reynolds was looking at his foot while he dropped his body weight onto it. That looked far worse and should've been reviewed by the MRC.

There's a reason it was not referred to MRC, he wasn't playing for Parra! Paulo's will go to MRC, guaranteed, even tho commentators reckon it shouldn't.

 

[Glenneel]

I never imagined you'd wear glasses. You've completely shattered my world view.

Looking at your avatar, your picture, you'd have no ears so how do you wear glasses?

 

[Gronk]

I still dont get it. This is not a Storm-like judo move that Jnr went in with. Jnr just tackled him at the hips. Contest it. We have until midday today to lodge our plea.

 

[hindy111]

Nah he was injured, but now we're certain he isn't. He's just become a shit hairdresser.

It the type of cut you would like. Taste is subjective

 

[Gary Gutful]

It the type of cut you would like. Taste is subjective

 

[crocodile]

I'm a massive fan of Dylan Brown's, and his being unavailable is a huge loss.

However, we still have Mitchell Moses, Clint Gutherson, and Reed Mahoney - all are creative players, with different strengths.

Mahoney, in particular, is gaining confidence kicking close to the line, and some of his balls to put players into space, and score tries, would have made Cam Smith proud.

Mahoney has also been engaging the markers a lot more lately, creating time, and space, for his team.

Given that Moses, Gutherson, and Mahoney are all available, and they are ably supported by playmaking forwards in Junior Paulo, Nathan Brown, and Ryan Matterson, I reckon Jai Field is a competent 6 to have in the side.

I would still have Smith on the bench, though - I think he has been outstanding the last two weeks.

Against Brisbane, in particular, he made some huge plays - that chargedown, as well as some astute runs out of dummy-half to create some space for his halves.

I would be happy to retain his services, he's been that good, imo.

I'd retain Smith too if I were the decision maker. Unfortunately it may squeeze out someone else. If only we had a Chook's salary sombrero.

 

[yy_cheng]

With niks back

Maybe go

6 matto
8 rcg
9 rheed
10 ke
11 davey
12 lane
13 nrown

14 ws
15 niks
16 oro
17 junz

I like that bench. Oro is moulding into a player like niks. Gives junz more freedom to do other stuff

 

[Happy MEel]

He should fight it so he has no carryover points heading into the finals. We'll probably still beat the Tigers without him and even if we don't we might still make the top four if Canberra shit the bed.

And if we finish 5th we get a home final in week one against an easy team, just like last year.

With niks back

Maybe go

6 matto
8 rcg
9 rheed
10 ke
11 davey
12 lane
13 nrown

14 ws
15 niks
16 oro
17 junz

I like that bench. Oro is moulding into a player like niks. Gives junz more freedom to do other stuff

I don’t hate that 17, but I’d even consider Taka or Salmon in the halves.

 

[yy_cheng]

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I don’t hate that 17, but I’d even consider Taka or Salmon in the halves.

I quite liking davey. Solid with an ocasional offload. Gr8 defense

 

[yy_cheng]

I don't feel much love for field.

It's like he doesn't know what he's supposed to do. Taka is a good option at 6 as the best thing about taka is that he links with his outside men

 

[yy_cheng]

I think Sivo has to change his running style when he is hitting it out. It doesn't matter that he is big and fast when he runs in to 3 blokes

 

[yy_cheng]

For the oldies, do you find that when gutho comes into the backline, hes very Kenny like?