Round 2 vs The Dragons

[franklin2323]

Pretty sad when your club drives you to such a lack of confidence.

That was us a few years ago

 

[Dave's mate]

That was us a few years ago

The Elliott years

 

[OldPanther]

Watch Cleary's inside ball to the second rower. He doesn't wave them inside like most halves and due to the shapes he could still pass to the centre if needed. Just a random thing I've noticed watching again today.

 

[franklin2323]

The Elliott years

Still brings me Nightmares

 

[Fangs]

Just remember this: Matt Elliott had a ten year plan.

 

[kinghippo]

I am pretty confident for a big win tonight but the team needs to fix up that first 20 minutes.

The Dragons are not as bad as everyone is making out, if we give them the chance to get in a groove they could cause us a lot of problems.
Even with sims and Mcinnins out they have a decent team on paper.

Their forwards are strong, their halves can win games when they fire, their backs have a bit of potential, and as bad as Dufty is in defence he can set up and score tries.

We should beat them but i hope the team isn’t walking into this expecting an easy win.

 

[Fangs]

With the current climate who knows which team shows up.

Dragons have a shorter turnaround which I think matters. Match fitness has been an issue for a lot of teams (if not all). Frizell was good but gassed at the end of the 80 last week.

 

[martielang]

Yeh i'm not reading too much into either teams performance last week. It's a lottery the first 3 - 4 rounds imo.

 

[Dave's mate]

They have a few excellent forwards but the backline is trash and the halves only fire very rarely. SHOULD be a comfortable win

 

[mxlegend99]

They have a few excellent forwards but the backline is trash and the halves only fire very rarely. SHOULD be a comfortable win

Are you talking about Panthers or Dragons with that description? Could easily apply to either to be honest.

 

[franklin2323]

Yeh i'm not reading too much into either teams performance last week. It's a lottery the first 3 - 4 rounds imo.

When Fuimoano is a starting player there is issues

 

[OldPanther]

When Fuimoano is a starting player there is issues

Wasn't he the one responsible for the Tigers 3 or 4 quick tries when they smashed us last year

 

[franklin2323]

Wasn't he the one responsible for the Tigers 3 or 4 quick tries when they smashed us last year

That was him

 

[OldPanther]

That was him

Excellent.

 

[Fangs]

Backrowers at centre, not always a good idea.

Similar story against the Sharks in 2019. Sure there was an injury at least make him swap sides. Xerri was easily the fastest player on that field.


...And a personal favourite of mine from former head coach Jason Taylor:


Poor Kyle Lovett..1.25...5.22...6.00.

A further 3 tries were scored down that edge. Simmons bagged 4 in total.

 

[franklin2323]

Backrowers at centre, not always a good idea.

Similar story against the Sharks in 2019. Sure there was an injury at least make him swap sides. Xerri was easily the fastest player on that field.


...And a personal favourite of mine from former head coach Jason Taylor:


Poor Kyle Lovett..1.25...5.22...6.00.

A further 3 tries were scored down that edge. Simmons bagged 4 in total.

The days when a crowd could watch footy

 

[martielang]

When Fuimoano is a starting player there is issues

Depends if you're playing him in his natural position, which they are.

He ain't a world beater but he's not as bad as we saw last year when he was put at centre.

 

[franklin2323]

Depends if you're playing him in his natural position, which they are.

He ain't a world beater but he's not as bad as we saw last year when he was put at centre.

Compare him to our backrow though... aren’t even in the same league

 

[OldPanther]

Compare him to our backrow though... aren’t even in the same league

Yeah but we have this beast.

 

[franklin2323]

Yeah but we have this beast.

The backrow we named this week is best in the comp