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I love how Hook always stays positive even though we know what the outcome will be.
Dragons determined to put inconsistency, injuries behind them
They've made their task of securing a top eight position tougher but an optimistic Anthony Griffin insists back-to-back losses won't derail the Dragons run to the finals.www.nrl.com
Ha Ha... lets hope he is right this time...enjoy your weekend.
Same to you getsmarty. We would all love Hook to be right and be right all of the time.
manly might end up with a reserve grade squad, well you know what happened when we played the broncos.
Its a little too dejavu for my liking
Hook is right in saying Mbye has done the job wherever he has been. He has played maybe every game this season. Early in the season he settled down the backline at fullback, if not setting it alight, thankfully Ramsey has done that. Mybe has been solid. I trust more Hook's knowledge, including protecting young players from being slaughtered. He is so much more a coach than the imposter clown before.
Hooks results don't differ from Mary's.
...or run the ball on the 6th and get tackled 20M out....
I can see what you are saying , but my belief is that our juniors should be exposed more to NRL, especially Sloan and Sullivan, get your point you dont want them destroyed but take for instance the young Broncos 5/8 and Fullback, I think one has only played 7 games and the other not much more, but have a look at their performance last night. I firmly believe they dont get much out of KOE cup, for me its baptism by fire, good games bad games, experience is where its at, learn from the mistakes you make and get better, I do appreciate that they need a certain amount of time in KOE cup but when the opportunity presents itself it should be given to a rookie, IE Max Feagai for Suli, thats what should be happening.
I used to think Bud was better playing 7 and honing his craft in Reggies but after his game at 7 against the Broncos I think he needs more NRL exposure to get used to the pressure. Now that Sloan is playing wing in Reggies ( not a bad idea ) than why not in NRL for bloody Moga ? If not now than surely when we "mathematically "cant make the 8 ?
100% its just madness not blooding these guys when you can, just because you feel that you need stability.
They’re worse actually
But Hook has got as punch able face that Mary has .
Surely you would think that if in the next 3-4 games we win only one and our chances of being in the top 8 went out the window that Hook would bring in the likes of Sloan and Max Feagai and maybe a couple of other young players to give them more first grade experience, would be done, surely?
I'd say that our pack of forwards needs to be upgraded in order to give our halves the room to do their thing. In addition, if Hunt was at 9, it would be more difficult to target the kicker as there would be 3 players that can perform this job. I'd also like to see Lomax trained to kick in general play.
Perfect description - this team is SOFT.
