Reason for loss? Fatigue & use of bench

[Dragon Slayer]

We should have had that game, poor kicking aside, for me it was lost in the last 10min of the first half, when we let Newcastle make too many metres, through non committment to tackles!

Agreed.
Not a great way to go into half time.
The ease of the two tries was very deflating.

 

[Windy70]

Could townsend be part of the bench? Give him experience, slowly into top grade, bit of and x factor as a ball player and mix up the kicking a bit.

 

[shaggs]

Could townsend be part of the bench? Give him experience, slowly into top grade, bit of and x factor as a ball player and mix up the kicking a bit.

I dont mind that idea at all.

Was actually picked in Matt's Cup as a hooker/lock bench type player. This was when he was still a year young. His defense is good now and his passing i think is pretty good.

As for the comments about his kicking in this or another thread, that is a bit rough. His first few kicks found space on the weekend. Have our NRL kickers actually landed the ball on the grass in the last few games??
Seems to be a lot of kicks going down the throat.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

Ask Webshark his thoughts on CT

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

haha

CT looks alright in TC.

Not sure if he's ready for FG

 

[The Popper]

I'm surprised (and disappointed) they don't give Mannah a longer go. IMO he's similar in style to his brother.

 

[The Dodger]

Well i think that is completely wrong. If Gallen was playing a club with a decent 5/8, or somebody like Gards inside him, say melbourne or Brisbane, then Gall would merely be an option runner. Its the inability of the middle guys to find the correct link. Gal is running the lanes & the angles but they give him the ball everytime. If he wasnt there, the centre would get toasted.

did anyone else lol after reading this too?

 

[RgSharks]

did anyone else lol after reading this too?

What's so funny about it?

It's right. The problem we have is we don't use the fringe plays like the Dragons and Broncos do.
We tend to give the ball to a back rower for an inside ball to Gardner. That's fine, but we shouldn't use it every play.
We need to get Gal to be running Gardner a block run where the ball goes out the back and we have the centre and winger are outside options.

 

[The Popper]

Do we ever use decoy runners????

 

[TheOx]

Do we ever use decoy runners????

Very close to never.

 

[S.R.]

Hopefully Mannah can get more minutes now (or Vave or Clayton or whoever).

I'd be using Douglas as a gap filler from now on.