Rd23: Parra v Storm GAME DAY thread 17/8/18

[Happy MEel]

He had a lot of room last week. None this week. They made him run sideways.

He hardly took the line on. I’d let the merkin run sideways too if that’s all he’s going to do.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

...and Moses was awful.

Only his kicking

 

[Dibs]

I wouId potentially have him as an edge forward like a Graham style forward. At centre probably does get to run enough or use his skills.

Yeah I wouldn’t argue with that, there is not a huge difference in those positions these days but he has the skills for what differences there are

 

[Joshuatheeel]

The difference this week is our forwards didnt dominate ... and corey went MIA

I thought our rookies and back ups wouId kill it against the storm !! FFS BA can’t coach!!

 

[Bandwagon]

Is that the spine with a 5/8 with 2 games and a hooker with 6 games yet you want to change it at the some time suggesting we should pick a spine and stick with it? Seriously!!

Yeah seriously, we have a young hooker with f**k all experience, Moses at 7 and We're chopping Norman and Hayne in and out of Full back , Norman also dabbling at 5/8, here and there , whilst we have an even less experienced 5/8 trying to find his feet.

We've spent the entire season without any kind of continuity in our spine, and yeah some of that is down to injury, and I'm guessin' now it's BA blooding the new guys because there is really nothing to lose, but what we end up with is games like today no control, and little to f**k all leadership.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I did notice how much better they were in the wrestle. So many times their guys found their stomachs, while ours ended up on their backs.

 

[Happy MEel]

Only his kicking

NRL stats have him at
0 LB
0 LBA
0 T
0 TA
1 Error
1 TB
15 Tackles
5 Missed Tackles

This was against a team that had a player binned for 10 minutes, lost their best player and leader, and lost their best middle. It wasn’t just his kicking.

 

[Noise]

Might have been gassed after all Melbourne's completely legitimate posession.

When we only have 66% completions then most of Melbourne's possession is legitimate.

 

[El Diablo]

Cos its a total contrast to last week ... BA is trying to win .... salmon is most likely instructed to not overplay - its the logical thing to do with a rookie 2 games in .... fullback is a 3rd half option in attack these days - its what we did last week - cant believe it wasnt the case this game

nuthugger to the rescue

 

[Bandwagon]

See this what I'm talkin' about, it's a f**king mess, we're kind of like this, but short the nucleus.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Very brave effort defensively. The usual attack issues. Moses needs more room. He was very ordinary tonight.
Im not a fan of swapping players all over the place. The only players who are confused are ours. Stones passing game needs a bit of work. Lol. Tepai was enormous.

 

[Eelogical]

Storm took their chances, we didn't. As a team I thought we played with commitment but we were outclassed by a more astute football team on the night. Nothing to shoot each other as supporters as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Noise]

He had a lot of room last week. None this week. They made him run sideways.

He needs to dig into the line more and play smart. He shouldn't be running sideways like he does even if he doesn't have room. Straighten up.

 

[Bandwagon]

I think he's talking about changing the spine so much throughout the game. We had 2 fullbacks, 2 5/8s, 1 halfback and 2 hookers throughout the course of the game. That's a lot of changes

Yeah, on top of which we've had blokes in and out all season, we need some kind of continuity if we expect to control games.

 

[hineyrulz]

Very brave effort defensively. The usual attack issues. Moses needs more room. He was very ordinary tonight.
Im not a fan of swapping players all over the place. The only players who are confused are ours. Stones passing game needs a bit of work. Lol. Tepai was enormous.

Moses is a downhill skier, just like Norman.

 

[Noise]

NRL stats have him at
0 LB
0 LBA
0 T
0 TA
1 Error
1 TB
15 Tackles
5 Missed Tackles

This was against a team that had a player binned for 10 minutes, lost their best player and leader, and lost their best middle. It wasn’t just his kicking.

And 2 penalties

 

[forward pass]

*sigh*

What a pathetic display.

Edit - Pathetic attacking display.

 

[JokerEel]

How good did Tepai and Marata go in defence this week! Was very impressed..

Taking Mahoney of was not smart though..

 

[TheParraboy]

Not a bad pack on the sidelines

8 Mannah
9 Kaysa
10 Alvaro
11 Mau
12 Scott
13 Trex

14 K Edwards

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

When we only have 66% completions then most of Melbourne's possession is legitimate.

I'm not saying we were good. But they got the calls early on. And maybe after all that posession Mahoney just couldn't do 80 minutes this time.