Rd20: Parra v Roosters GAME DAY thread @ Mackay 29/7/21

[Noise]

Why do you keep thinking it has to be one or the other?

In the 8 years that we have won nothing but a spoon there have only been 2 constants, BA and Murphy. I’d say they are a big part of the problem.

 

[Avenger]

BA: “effort was good, made dumb plays.” “If we’d scored a try first in the second half it may have been different”

FFS!!! That can’t be BA’s response after every loss. If we keep making dumb plays, then hold the players to account for it and dump them.

He has dumb tactics and the dumbest bench rotations in the NRL.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Why would you blame him?

Do you blame us for not giving him more minutes? He was always a project player. The more game time and money he gets the bigger the risk.

 

[Avenger]

Do you blame us for not giving him more minutes? He was always a project player. The more game time and money he gets the bigger the risk.

He could have been used better. We struggle for attacking options yet he has completely coached him to be something that he’s not. I would have dropped Nathan Brown weeks ago. He has badly regressed and seems to be in his comfort zone. His hunger has gone. A dumb move to re-sign the handbrake. I would have been happy to let him go.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It’s hard when he is the sole point of attack, expected to make up for a halves pairing that can’t put anyone in a hole or structure an attacking set.

Yeah with Moses missing teams have been compressing a lot more in the middle.

 

[emjaycee]

Doesn’t mean anything. They didn’t want RCG either.

Ummm, it meant they had better players in those positions.
Which was the point of the conversation.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

There was plenty of laughs from the players on the ground after the game. Not sure what they have to laugh about.

They've got perspective. It's only one game.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Yeah with Moses missing teams have been compressing a lot more in the middle.

Yeah there's some smart coaches out there

 

[lucablight]

Ummm, it meant they had better players in those positions.
Which was the point of the conversation.

Staines isn’t better than Sivo at this point in time.

 

[Gazzamatta]

They've got perspective. It's only one game.

Pigs fu*ken ass it is.
Who was that well known coach when confronted with the statement "its not like its life or death" responded with " no its much more important than that". I wonder if that merkin is contracted for next year.

 

[lucablight]

They've got perspective. It's only one game.

We’ve lost 3 out of our last 4 and are sliding out of contention for a top 4 spot. Maybe they need to get a new perspective.

 

[Avenger]

And Pou, project players usually don’t play over 120 NRL games. BA in the pre season was saying that Cartwright would be the buy of the season yet he has stuck with underperforming or regressing players like Lane and Nathan Brown.

The nepotism and blind loyalty to these players will inevitably cost him his job.

 

[Chipmunk]

They've got perspective. It's only one game.

I will be interested to see if they're still laughing the first week of the Finals.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We made about as many metres as them despite line breaks being down 7-2. So I think decision to spread the ball is vindicated. It was close to the line we shit ourselves.

Without Moses' kicking game we couldn't build any pressure. It was only the second time this year we kicked dead more times than we forced drop outs. The first was against St George.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

This will be the first time this season both my sides lose.

The Dockers just lost half their team to injury as well.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I realise that, I was just being a little facetious. Still, that’s a decent sledge. It looks like the opposition also sees what every other merkins sees except Papa Arthurz

Well that was Jake Arthur's worst performance, but you expect very young players to come out with poor performances more often than senior players. And I thought young Arthur's defence was much improved this week. He was just put under a lot of pressure with the ball. It's another good learning experience for him.

 

[Angry_eel]

Well that was Jake Arthur's worst performance, but you expect very young players to come out with poor performances more often than senior players. And I thought young Arthur's defence was much improved this week. He was just put under a lot of pressure with the ball. It's another good learning experience for him.

He was being targeted and couldn't do much about it. He has a big frame so it's not like he can dance around JWH.

I'm not blaming him at all. He shouldn't be in the 13, maybe come off the bench to get some experience if the game is done.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You mean the players the coach has signed and re-signed?

Only Sivo and maybe Opacic are in our top 17 next year.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Ferguson and Sivo would easily make the backline of all of those sides. You’re grossly underrating our players if you think they’re a sixth placed side at best.

Manu and Tupou made 45 runs between them tonight. Our wingers made 24, though Ferguson did miss eight minutes.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

But our coach thought a long term deal with Waqa Blake was a good idea.

So did the Panthers, and now they're subsidising it.