Our back three were all poor. Mansour offers nothing should have been let go last year.
As I said last year Edwards in not in the top 10 fullbacks in the NRL and I was howled down.
Have a look at our signings for this year they are all of NSW Cup standard at best.
Front rower we lack a forward leader and don't have a dummy half in the club.
Both halves were both very poor today.
Sadly mostly right. Edwards is a competent FB but that is about it. He could 'level up' to good (4th to 7th) but that is probably his ceiling.
The Mansour call is correct. He no longer chews through the metres....he is slow as f**k for a winger, gets caught out of position, out competed in the air and has 1-2 errors a game more than he should.
Signings have been really shit house whilst our upgrades are poor value, we are paying blokes as if they are either 8 or 9 out of 10 players, but really their average would be a good point or point and a half below. Some of the very same mistakes of the Leary/Elliot era on overpaying our boom juniors on potential look to have been committed.
Tamou is our only quality prop...RCG is a prime example of my above paragraph. Moses goes okay but where is the rest of the quality? Gone with Sam's ACL. I have NFI how Sele and Fuimaono make our 17 but here we are....
Penrith's biggest problem however is that it is simply a low IQ team. We routinely give away stupid penalties, or make silly errors at the worst possible time. Even Jimmy Maloney who is actually a seemingly smart bloke behaves like an idiot out there all too often.
Unfortunately this is the way we have been run since Gus has come here....the opposite of Melbourne.
Melbourne - stable and brilliant spines with a coach who 'moneyballs' the lesser positions and coaches them into being better players than they would otherwise be. Dumb and ill disciplined players are weeded out even if talented. Note how most of their players aren't brilliant at anything but also have no glaring holes.
Penrith - completely unstable (littered with fill ins, hacks and past their best hacks) spine. Seriously look at our spine progression since 2012...it has to be one of the most unstable in the NRL.
Our 'stars' are overpaid on potential and many of our stars have 1 or 2 great positive attributes - but also some big set back. e.g. Kikau is an attacking weapon but defensive disaster, Mansour very limited.
But the biggest difference is that the Storm are a professional, well drilled team where stupidity is kept to a minimum. We have stupidity all round the park and it shows whether Cleary or Griffin is coaching.
