Round 13 against the Roosters

[Panfa]

We have a depleted souths followed by the hot and cold warriors then the bye if we can win our next 2 games we will be well on our way towards the top 8

 

[OldPanther]

I think that's the most I've seen the halves pass to each other and alternate first receiver since Cleary debuted.

 

[Panfa]

It was our best game of the season by far the boys all had a crack both in defence and attack we should have won by more but the cummins factor kicked in yesterday.

 

[Abacus]

I'm not sure we can give all the credit to DWZ for the team's poor attitude. The improvement also coincides with the coach actually dropping players. And DWZ's response to being dropped gave the coach the opportunity to keep DWZ out of the team and hopefully set a standard for others.

 

[OldPanther]

It was our best game of the season by far the boys all had a crack both in defence and attack we should have won by more but the cummins factor kicked in yesterday.

Without a doubt. Cleary said we have improvement as far as actual footy tactics go so we could be a real threat now.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I'm not sure we can give all the credit to DWZ for the team's poor attitude. The improvement also coincides with the coach actually dropping players. And DWZ's response to being dropped gave the coach the opportunity to keep DWZ out of the team and hopefully set a standard for others.

Its a culmination of little things.

Sauce getting dropped and coming back a more determined player after taking constructive criticism and responding to it.

RCG getting dropped and coming back better after a rev up from Mark Carroll.

Katoa no longer hooker.

The enthusiasm of the young players like Kenny, Too, Martin Naden rubbing off on the rest of the squad.

Edwards playing better.

Where everything was going wrong at the start of the year a couple of little things have made a difference in the short term.

Getting a few wins has boosted moral and lifted the whole intensity of the side.

 

[betcats]

The difference Edwards and mansour make when they are playing well a long with To’o just killing it is huge for us. The early games this year every set we were just getting belted the first three tackles and coming up with lots of errors. Now we are eating those tackles up making big metres often.

 

[rem286]

Only got to see second half. It was bloody awesome. Well done boys.

 

[martielang]

Very convenient to blame DWZ for all our attitude issues. I’ve got no doubt the club tried to push him out prior to any major issues which would of affected his form & attitude. Feel for the bloke tbh.

Re: yesterday, I think it shows how important Mansour is to the make up of our side. Add Too’s go forward & it makes a huge difference with set structure allowing the Hooker, halves & edge forwards a lot more room & momentum. We never had that the first 10 weeks.

 

[JACS]

How come Luai didn’t get any minutes? We cannot afford to carry 2 hookers/utilities on the bench

 

[Blues Riff]

Awesome pic.

 

[Dave's mate]

How come Luai didn’t get any minutes? We cannot afford to carry 2 hookers/utilities on the bench

Tim Sheens level coaching

 

[Blues Riff]

Jerome wasn't needed. Roosters comeback never happened. They spent the last 10 defending their own line. Nathan didn't seem to tire.

 

[mxlegend99]

I'm not sure we can give all the credit to DWZ for the team's poor attitude. The improvement also coincides with the coach actually dropping players. And DWZ's response to being dropped gave the coach the opportunity to keep DWZ out of the team and hopefully set a standard for others.

Plus we had a couple of games where the attitude was great just before we turned to shit. Unfortunately we lost them both... but I think our effort against Souths in particular was on par with our last 3 games.

No idea what changed after losing to Souths. I think it just broke our confidence and spirit. Playing our best game of the season and losing. But really dont think this culture change is on one player.

 

[OldPanther]

Plus we had a couple of games where the attitude was great just before we turned to shit. Unfortunately we lost them both... but I think our effort against Souths in particular was on par with our last 3 games.

No idea what changed after losing to Souths. I think it just broke our confidence and spirit. Playing our best game of the season and losing. But really dont think this culture change is on one player.

Well look at Mansour. Seems to be better for being dropped, Dill as well.

 

[TheFrog]

It was our best game of the season by far the boys all had a crack both in defence and attack we should have won by more but the cummins factor kicked in yesterday.

Cummins helped the Roosters stay in the game in the first half but if anything went our way in the second.

 

[betcats]

Plus we had a couple of games where the attitude was great just before we turned to shit. Unfortunately we lost them both... but I think our effort against Souths in particular was on par with our last 3 games.

No idea what changed after losing to Souths. I think it just broke our confidence and spirit. Playing our best game of the season and losing. But really dont think this culture change is on one player.

The south’s game was Gould’s farewell game, I think they put in for him they hadn’t played like thst all year, the bunnies were playing very good at that point.

 

[CCJohnC]

Interesting that the gate was 16,800+ on a Sunday afternoon. To me it proves that there should be more games played at this time and especially not Thursday evenings (I know it's TV driven) which should go the same way as Monday Night games.

 

[OldPanther]

Interesting that the gate was 16,800+ on a Sunday afternoon. To me it proves that there should be more games played at this time and especially not Thursday evenings (I know it's TV driven) which should go the same way as Monday Night games.

Without the TV money the game has nothing.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Without the TV money the game has nothing.

I think there can be a better balance, though. Currently it’s too driven by TV.

I’d like to see a midday game on Sunday tried.