Round 11 vs Canberra

[FlameThrower]

We lacked the ability to win scrappy in the past and I'm glad we did now because a game where the lead changes multiple times is usually not a happy one for us.

Raiders tough side to beat..

 

[getsmarty]

notes from today for tomorrow's review.
TEAM
Must play the ball properly
never turn your back on an acting team
never stop defending & assuming a penalty
COACH
Rest Graham
Rest Nighty
Rethink bench
Bring in Lomax

No re Graham....when he was off they started making metres up the middle...Graham changes line speed and the effort near the end when dufty cleaned up the kick, graham was the only other player to show urgency...maybe he needs to play shorter spells.

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

We haven’t recovered well from the game against Melbourne. Compounding that is poor bench use, AGAIN. A wins a win but I have serious concerns over Nighty(consistently picked off in defence) & Graham(looking injured & too often at 1st or 2nd receiver stifling our attack).
On that performance Penrith won’t be too concerned.

I couldnt agree more....we were very ordinary today barring two great efforts by Dufty we were way off the pace

 

[Drag Queen]

I agree dont understand why you dont at least give the young bloke 5 minutes, it would be good experience. What am i missing ?

In a tight game like that, even though it looked liked ISP, it's not a good time to bring in a rookie.

 

[SAP58]

Tough to watch but we got the win, the second half was easier to watch after visiting the fridge in the second half !

 

[mickeylane]

in saying all that we have massive problems w Nightingale.....

 

[Old Kogarah Boy 1]

We played poorly and only got out of jail with one or two acts of individual brilliance.
We employed another Plan B No Go Zone, today.
Is the gloss starting to wear off?

 

[SAP58]

In a tight game like that, even though it looked liked ISP, it's not a good time to bring in a rookie.

Hear you DQ but the coach has said he needs them to get the experience so they can fill in when the rep players are away. I just dont see how siting on the bench achieves that.

 

[mickeylane]

Yes mate sadly have to agree re Flo...he doesnt add that much these days.....and when you take into consideration we hardly use our 17th player...we can do better by adding some more troops to our 80 minutes...if you know what I mean

Nightingale has scored 1 try in 11 games!!!
Any other winger would be dropped in any other team.....Mann to the wing......

 

[Old Kogarah Boy 1]

Tough to watch but we got the win, the second half was easier to watch after visiting the fridge in the second half !

Must of bought the same fridge.

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

Also shhh we scored that off a ptb that should have been called back but I'll take it

Yeah that was our 3rd infringemnt for the play the ball..lucky Nighty got away with it..the others were JDB and Frizz....just have to cut this out of our game..it could cost us some day

 

[Life's Good]

In a tight game like that, even though it looked liked ISP, it's not a good time to bring in a rookie.

When is it time though? Even when we belt teams our bench use is sh*t(think of Robson vs Storm).

 

[giboz71]

I agree dont understand why you dont at least give the young bloke 5 minutes, it would be good experience. What am i missing ?

Remember the 1st game against Souths? When Leilua almost cost us the game??

Game was still in the balance and having watched Lawrie in ISP, he is prone to bone headed plays.

We needed 2 points today, that supercedes giving young guys a run just for the sake of it.

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

Nightingale has scored 1 try in 11 games!!!
Any other winger would be dropped in any other team.....Mann to the wing......

Yes you wont get an argunent from me there

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

nighty is turning into michael hancock.

400 metres sideways for a gain of 1.

Reminiscent of Cliff Lyons too.

 

[Drag Queen]

Hear you DQ but the coach has said he needs them to get the experience so they can fill in when the rep players are away. I just dont see how siting on the bench achieves that.

I agree with you but we needed experience in that game. We could have easily lost that game to inexperience and lost a couple of points. Not impressed with how we played, but then again I wasn't impressed with our reserve grade yesterday either. We got lucky today.

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

Nightingale has scored 1 try in 11 games!!!
Any other winger would be dropped in any other team.....Mann to the wing......

This post refuses to acknowledge that Nightingale has Aitken inside him, who simply cannot draw and pass.

 

[TruSaint]

Vaughan must be one of the 1st picked for SOO...

55 minutes played, 167 metres all run, 76 post contact metres, 5 tackle breaks.

The guy is on fire.

 

[FlameThrower]

Heres the good news - win or lose next week after round 13 we will still be on top of the comp 13 weeks straight and even better news we would have trotted out the same starting 13 - 12 games straight - a NRL all time record...
The team played awfully today but the raiders are such an on and off team that it would be hard to plan to play against them - seriously 2 of the Raiders tries would never be scored in a semi final scenario - our superiority is such that we play well beyond par and still win games with gas left in the tank....

lack of urgency...they team looked like this was a trial game....very scrappy..
i'm worried Graham is playing injured. noted JDB had some extra protection on his left hip too..
Dufty was smashed today..but great solo try and lovely little kick for Widdop try..

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

in saying all that we have massive problems w Nightingale.....

Don't isolate one individual when the whole right side is flimsy for numerous reasons.