I'm a loser baby...
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You don't sound very certain.
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We had Will Smith, so didn't need Salmon.
Apples and Oranges. Will Smith was a life long reserve grader who came into the side and did a decent job. Salmon was a young rookie and would only get better with the right training. I am convinced he was let go to make way for Jake.
So Salmon should have played those 7 games as 6 or 7 on 2021 when Moses and Dylan were out ?
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Id have Jake over Smith every day of the week. Smith had a knack of losing us games.
Fogarty. Seems like a good player to me.
Revisionism. Salmon played first grade until Brown came back and then got a bench gig. He was given heaps of chances to play for a contract.
What did I say that was wrong?? He got dropped after Magic round that’s a fact. And he wasn’t a 6. Looks a decent 14 at riff these days.
Salmon was average(in the limited time he was given), so is Jarthur(in the limited time he's been playing). The net result at this point is zero.
Flip flopper?? I was proven correct, he wasn’t a 6. In the 2020 off season we had him training in the centres are the coaching staff flip floppers as well for playing him @ 6 and then tried to turn him into a centre???
Wasn't Will Smith (who then replaced him at 6) also injured prior to magic round? I seem to recall a broken hand???
I can’t remember I thought Will broke his hand last year?? It’s all fuzzy it’s hard supporting this team and being a raging alcoholic.
you might be right .... it could be last year or 2020 i am thinking of with the hand
The only one in the NRL is Brisbane, and how do we even know they still have the resources they had even five years ago? This could be the new normal for them.
It absolutely is. Success doesn’t come by accident, it requires manpower (human resources, not the strippers) and good people cost more money than average ones. And if you consider humans doing it cheaply or free, because they love the club then that is also a fundamental strength of the club. Parramatta aren’t going to poach Nick Politis from the Roosters. He is part of their fundamental strength.
Two losing grand finals in 36 years isn’t a ‘lean period’, it is a sign of fundamental weakness in the organisation. How many other clubs have been through this recently?
An information free statement if there ever was one. You may as well have said winning requires scoring more points than the opposition. Have you ever actually been involved in “putting proper systems in place”? It doesn’t take magic, it takes money. The people required to develop and implement these systems don’t work for free. The best ones are on big money, and in a rugby league context they would already be working for Uncle Nick or Holding M.S. Australia. We are not talking about coaches, we are talking about the people who choose the people who hire and fire coaches, along with everyone else who makes the NRL team win or lose.
No I don’t. Defence causes fatigue, far more than attack. It’s why we try to reduce errors and control possession. Ideally we also get repeat sets. In any set of six you’re only going to have at most six players tackled with the ball, no matter what style of play you’re using. And after the game is over there’s about 10000 minutes to recover for the next game.
If it was about fatigue it would be late season fade outs. We wouldn’t recover in time for the finals like we did last year.
We don’t have as many players with the individual ability to make defenders miss, meaning we need more tackles, on average, to force enough consecutive defensive mistakes for a try to occur.
The generally play left/right, so the guy touching the ball more is the one on the side of the opposition we’re targeting.
Looks like he identified the right weakness. Good job BA!
