Round 2 v Roosters

[Chins]

LOL what? Alamoti was diabolical. He was so bad I could hardly believe my eyes. He looked every bit like the reserve grader that Ciraldo moved on. I know he has had good games for us but I still can't fathom this weird love many in this forum have for him. He is extremely error prone offensively and also with his defensive reads and tackling technique.

I didn't say our best was great haha but he was the only bloke running hard all game

 

[PennyPanthers81]

They looked like they didn’t care. They didn’t show up. They thought they could just phone it in.
Mixture of arrogance and apathy maybe? The crowd was shit from all accounts too. I really think the no home ground factor is going to hurt lot.

 

[Caged Panther]

They looked like they didn’t care. They didn’t show up. They thought they could just phone it in.
Mixture of arrogance and apathy maybe? The crowd was shit from all accounts too. I really think the no home ground factor is going to hurt lot.

Feels like Ivan might have sensed this too given his comments in the presser about the game being lost before we got there.

 

[Iamback]

Between centre and wing though. Doesn't have a spot yet.

21 years at 37 matches. He still has enough credits before we judge too harshly.

He could still play Flegg this year very raw still

 

[Iamback]

They looked like they didn’t care. They didn’t show up. They thought they could just phone it in.
Mixture of arrogance and apathy maybe? The crowd was shit from all accounts too. I really think the no home ground factor is going to hurt lot.

Even after Alamonti scored early there was no crowd noise. The energy in the stands matched the players

 

[The Realist]

His youth and inexperience is the only 'saving grace' for Alamoti. He still has time to learn and get better, but gosh he has some dumb in him that I am not sure even Ivan can coach out of him.

Anyone remember his absolutely spastic offload attempt against the Sharks with only a few minutes left? All we had to do is hold the ball and he nearly lost it 20-30 metres out. Only through sheer luck did we keep possession. 9/10 times that would be a knock on or the Sharks would get the bounce and dive on it. I was surprised nobody seems to pick up on that play in any of the threads that I had a (brief) look at.

If he is still playing anything like this by the end of the season I think we'd need to consider alternatives.

 

[The Realist]

Even after Alamonti scored early there was no crowd noise. The energy in the stands matched the players

Commbank is a soul-less Stadium. Add the hot day and humidity, the battle parking or wrestling with cityfail and general unfamiliarity and it's no surprise.

 

[Iamback]

His youth and inexperience is the only 'saving grace' for Alamoti. He still has time to learn and get better, but gosh he has some dumb in him that I am not sure even Ivan can coach out of him.

Anyone remember his absolutely spastic offload attempt against the Sharks with only a few minutes left? All we had to do is hold the ball and he nearly lost it 20-30 metres out. Only through sheer luck did we keep possession. 9/10 times that would be a knock on or the Sharks would get the bounce and dive on it. I was surprised nobody seems to pick up on that play in any of the threads that I had a (brief) look at.

If he is still playing anything like this by the end of the season I think we'd need to consider alternatives.

The problem is the alternatives are McLean, Blaize or Cole or are kids and will have the same issues.

 

[Iamback]

Commbank is a soul-less Stadium. Add the hot day and humidity, the battle parking or wrestling with cityfail and general unfamiliarity and it's no surprise.

Being 1/3 full didn't help but the whole day seemed flat

 

[Aliceinwonderland]

They looked like they didn’t care. They didn’t show up. They thought they could just phone it in.
Mixture of arrogance and apathy maybe? The crowd was shit from all accounts too. I really think the no home ground factor is going to hurt lot.

Listened to Ivan's presser. He's not a happy man. The whips and tackle bags will be out this upcoming week.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

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Yeah; I got that wrong, both in game and before. I was still confident right up until they scored their last try.

Sky definitely isn’t falling though!!

 

[ColdWetPanther]

We play our best footy in the back half of the year.

Thats been proven the last 3 years.

The boys regularly come off short pre seasons and we take a while to warm up amd attack to click

Nothing worked tonight.

If your hitting the panic button after 5 years of dominance from one bad game then give yourself an uppercut.

I wasnt one saying wed win by 50 like 95% of others on here.

I wasnt confident all week. I did think wed win though so the loss hurts. But we will he fine.

Main thing is hopefully dyl is just a 2-3 week injury and not a 8 week+

Not just the end of the year. If you go back to the Rd 23(ish) game against Canberra last year you had similar posts after a similar performance.

I’m not defending the performance because that was terrible, but it is tough to be up every game.

I still have us as premiership favourites.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Listened to Ivan's presser. He's not a happy man. The whips and tackle bags will be out this upcoming week.

Good I hope he is p!ssed.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Melbourne will put 50 on us next week if we don’t change our defensive attitude

I agree we need to improve attitude in defence.

But we will though. This happens all the time. We take teams lightly who are down the bottom or expected to be down the bottom, and lift our intensity agains the bigger sides.