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We couldn't score because the defence was too good. The reason the defence was too good was because we didn't build any pressure. Our team is built, since 2019, to wear teams down and wait for the defence to make mistakes. It requires execution and patience.
He's not telling the media what he's thinking. He's there because he has to be. They get canned answers.
Not necessarily better players, just cheaper. Balancing the cap means being very strategic with your big earners, which included RCG and Blake for them. Who cares if they're not worth what the Panthers paid for them. That's a Penrith problem.
There is no benefit to finishing top four now. No home advantage, and little chance of beating the Panthers or Storm. We want to sneak into week 3 by beating some nuffy 7/8 placed team and then have some luck in week 2.
Not usually, but Cartwright is a special case. Immense talent, but drama follows the guy around, much like Corey Norman.
Don't trust what coaches say in the media. He might've hoped he would be, and wanted to give Cartwright some encouragement. If he really valued him as a player he would've given him more game time.
I thought Lane was our best forward tonight.
Sounds like you're hoping they won't have anything to laugh about. Ulterior motive?
Or a free shot at the Panthers/Storm and a second bite even after a loss as opposed to having the pressure of elimination from week 1.
We went alright last time we had the pressure of elimination in week one. We were definitely up for it.
Sterling, Grothe, Ella, Kenny, Cronin, Price.
...and it was 28-0 in the end so you f**ked it.
Spoken like a man who has a healthy head of hair.
The stats are interesting on this one. So many more passes by us and really we made so many more metres. And I think less errors. I'd say it was the Parraball that got us into position to put pressure on. We just f**ked it up after that. And just looking at it, half a dozen times we passed it after the opposition kick when previously we'd have gone to ground, and it contributed greatly to getting us out of trouble and on the front foot. I want to see more of that. When Moses is back we might nail the other stuff.
We tried to spice it up and shift the ball but the players weren't up to it. BA should have known better.
Is he giving them too much freedom to play what they see?
I think he is trying to say that he is a ham-headed f**ken idiot.
Based on tonight's effort you'd say yes but I'd be able to answer more definitively if we had a larger sample size.
Does my f**ken head in that someone has to explain this every f**ken week.
BA said that.
