Poupou Escobar
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Where they're expected to finish is irrelevant. It's where they end up finishing that shows how good they are. The expectations are usually what was wrong all along.
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Where they're expected to finish is irrelevant. It's where they end up finishing that shows how good they are. The expectations are usually what was wrong all along.
Nah it's all Jake Arthur's fault. Here come the psychologists to show how he f**ked everyone's attitude.
We have a 7 who has those things. How did he go behind this pack?
As soon as the coach makes that call (in team list, or as a switch on game day) he'll suddenly be 100% behind it, contradicting his posts of a week before. With a fallback when he's called out on it that he was only attempting to be "witty" and that rugby league fans need to be better "thinkers" etc etc zzzzzzzzzzzzz
That's "motivational poster quality" stuff right there - you should get that printed up and sell it on etsy to dopes who think that passes for insight.
You keep omitting the fact he was in our starting 17 in round 1, because it doesn’t suit your argument. It’s disingenuous. The fact he’s a teenager is irrelevant if he’s playing first grade. He wasn’t alone tonight, but he was one of our worst, pure and simple. If you’re playing first grade, you are going to be criticised as a first grader. The forwards were shit tonight but they have enough runs on the board. JA has shown half of sweet f**k all. He’s not even good enough to be our back up half.
Losing players is what destroys the attack, and losing players is the same reason he was picked. Don't pretend you're isolating the cause when you're ignoring all the factors. If he'd played in the Tigers and Sharks losses you would've said that was his fault as well. You're blinded by your preconceptions. It's called confirmation bias.
Well our defence is worse than our attack so that has to be the focus.
They have pointed out that JA needs some time in Cup to improve so an unfair dig, I agree.
Oh dear...
I can see us scraping into the 8 at best, once again the inclusion of Jakey seems to have upset the Apple cart. You’d of thought the coach learnt from last year. But he’s a slow learners. 9 seasons and he still can’t pick or manage a bench.
We were shit against the Tigers but we could still score points. We could also score a few against the Sharks and we actually should have won that game as we were the better side. All I’ve said is that our attack suffers greatly with Jake in the halves. You’re not arguing the point I’m making.
Hits ups of kick returns is not utilising his skill set. Figured you’d understand that but alas.
They didn't stick to the game plan. Last week we scored 39 points despite our halves only throwing 67 passes between them. This week they threw 87 passes and we scored 4 points. We attacked very differently this week. How could you not see that? Too busy making smartarse comments I expect.
They were excellent and we weren't prepared for it. Just like we weren't prepared for the Tigers to be so adequate. The Roosters expected an easy game and got their pants pulled down today as well. It happens.
Can you blame them?? This is all on his imbecile father, he shouldn’t be there. Everyone knows it bar Bea Arthur. It’s anger and frustration, most fans thought we were a chance this year and this is what they offer up added by the fact he son has been shoehorned into the 17 and Dylan Brown has been moved after finally showing what he is capable of in the 6 position. He’s apparently a top 17 player so he’s eligible for criticism just like anyone else in the the side.
Ok. That’s shit. I didn’t realise dickheads we’re going that far. All I saw were people criticising his ability and rightly calling out BA for favouring his son.
There’s a big difference between criticism and the vitriol being thrown his way by absolute f**kwits
