Round 23 v Cowboys @ Pepper Stadium

[Rhyno]

Tamou you beauty

 

[OldPanther]

Moylan needs to remember he can kick. He passes it off on the 5th too much looking to score every time. We look fantastic with the ball until we get to the 20m.

 

[noforwardpass]

There we go again terrible 5th tackle play and bam easy meters and try.
Someone else needs to get a few kicks away, to much pressure on Cleary

Sounds like a role the other half in the team could do.......

 

[umina panther]

Moylan needs to remember he can kick. He passes it off on the 5th too much looking to score every time. We look fantastic with the ball until we get to the 20m.

Still kicked better than Nathan...and people dont think he can its amazing. This combo just needs time and coaching

 

[umina panther]

And if only Aussie Jim ran that hard each week

 

[billypilgrimnz]

6 in a row... nice. No improvement whatsoever in fifth tackle options, but maybe next week.

 

[noforwardpass]

A big 231m from RCG.

 

[TeamSatan]

That was a tough way to win.
Running towards Howell is always best in 2nd half.

We seem to be breaking teams spirit. Dogs Titans now cows.
Good to win even if fugly as.

 

[mxlegend99]

We played average again and won yet again.

We have some great individual brilliance. But f**king no signs of coaching at all.

 

[Pomoz]

Good game. Tough defence and big hits. The Cowboys are a well organised, well drilled team. We are not that at all, but we are resilient and flamboyant. RCG and Tamou earned their pay tonight against the Cowboys big boppers, they held the middle and were making plenty of post contact metres. Our back row was outstanding. CHN 40 tackles 1 mt, Yeo, 27 tackles 0 missed. The backs were taking the ball up like front rowers. Every single back had over 100m. Edwards again with 200m+, he is classy and never lets a spilt ball phase him.

I hate to say this but Moylan is not really helping us in attack at the moment. His lack of pace and ability to break the line (now worse because of his dodgy hamstring) means the defence just holds off for his pass. We look far better when May was on and Cartwright was in the line. Moylan's insistence on looking for a try off every play stops us creating pressure and getting repeat sets. He should never get the ball on the last tackle. We fix that and we will be top four. Our forwards and backs give us plenty of go forward, the space is there, we just need to settle down and create pressure, the tries will come. We are a season away of dishing out regular spankings to other sides, because when we gell in the halves, whew, watch out.

 

[Pomoz]

We played average again and won yet again.

We have some great individual brilliance. But f**king no signs of coaching at all.

You know what, six wins in a row and you are still bagging the coach. He might have had a little bit to do with it don't you think? Our mental resilience, the backs rucking the ball out, using May at 5/8th, Cleary getting more repeat sets, not a whiff of recognition for Hook?

 

[mxlegend99]

Good game. Tough defence and big hits. The Cowboys are a well organised, well drilled team. We are not that at all, but we are resilient and flamboyant. RCG and Tamou earned their pay tonight against the Cowboys big boppers, they held the middle and were making plenty of post contact metres. Our back row was outstanding. CHN 40 tackles 1 mt, Yeo, 27 tackles 0 missed. The backs were taking the ball up like front rowers. Every single back had over 100m. Edwards again with 200m+, he is classy and never lets a spilt ball phase him.

I hate to say this but Moylan is not really helping us in attack at the moment. His lack of pace and ability to break the line (now worse because of his dodgy hamstring) means the defence just holds off for his pass. We look far better when May was on and Cartwright was in the line. Moylan's insistence on looking for a try off every play stops us creating pressure and getting repeat sets. He should never get the ball on the last tackle. We fix that and we will be top four. Our forwards and backs give us plenty of go forward, the space is there, we just need to settle down and create pressure, the tries will come. We are a season away of dishing out regular spankings to other sides, because when we gell in the halves, whew, watch out.

Moylan saved us a bunch of times. No way we win this without him. He read the game better thasn anyone. His timing is off a bit. But he proved how important he was tonight

 

[OldPanther]

Good game. Tough defence and big hits. The Cowboys are a well organised, well drilled team. We are not that at all, but we are resilient and flamboyant. RCG and Tamou earned their pay tonight against the Cowboys big boppers, they held the middle and were making plenty of post contact metres. Our back row was outstanding. CHN 40 tackles 1 mt, Yeo, 27 tackles 0 missed. The backs were taking the ball up like front rowers. Every single back had over 100m. Edwards again with 200m+, he is classy and never lets a spilt ball phase him.

I hate to say this but Moylan is not really helping us in attack at the moment. His lack of pace and ability to break the line (now worse because of his dodgy hamstring) means the defence just holds off for his pass. We look far better when May was on and Cartwright was in the line. Moylan's insistence on looking for a try off every play stops us creating pressure and getting repeat sets. He should never get the ball on the last tackle. We fix that and we will be top four. Our forwards and backs give us plenty of go forward, the space is there, we just need to settle down and create pressure, the tries will come. We are a season away of dishing out regular spankings to other sides, because when we gell in the halves, whew, watch out.

Moylan just needs some consistent time on field and decent coaching.

 

[Thirsty Panther]

Best thing about our last 6 wins is that we still have a ton of improvement in us.
5th tackle options for one.
Back 3 are fantastic.
RCG off the bench is a winner
Can we tell big Jim we are playing the Cowboys again next week.

 

[age.s]

Yeah I have no idea if the 5th tackle options are going to come together this year. I want to believe more experience for Moylan/Cleary will do it but it might have to be next yer.

But the rest of the game is coming together really nicely. We're a fit and skilled side and we generally have enough brilliance in the team to overcome the fact we can't build pressure like the Storm.

Shoutout to Peachey. Defended superbly in the first half. Some great reads and ball and all tackles (that penalty was bullshit). I hope he doesn't get dropped after that performance.

Forwards were fantastic. The Cows lost players but I think we would have gotten on top of them anyway. RCG, CHN, Tamou all standouts.

I've officially got a man crush on Edwards. So tough, fast, elusive and a touch of skill to round it off. That 40m kick return was a key moment. The Cows had nothing left after that.

Cleary's tackle on Hess has to be one of the best I've seen in years. May running circles around tired defenders in the last 20 minutes is yet another weapon for us.

I have no idea if this is a false dawn. But if feels like it's close to coming together.

 

[mxlegend99]

You know what, six wins in a row and you are still bagging the coach. He might have had a little bit to do with it don't you think? Our mental resilience, the backs rucking the ball out, using May at 5/8th, Cleary getting more repeat sets, not a whiff of recognition for Hook?

Can you show one attacking play that was coached in that game which worked?

I didnt see any. I saw players doing their thing. Happy with a win. But that was not due to coaching. Cowboys were injury depleted and we won on individual brilliance.

 

[umina panther]

Can you show one attacking play that was coached in that game which worked?

I didnt see any. I saw players doing their thing. Happy with a win. But that was not due to coaching. Cowboys were injury depleted and we won on individual brilliance.

Same shit all year in regards to attacking structure. Zero improvement

 

[chrisD]

That was a good performance. Wraps on all besides Moylan who was woefully out of touch and down on fitness, it very well could have cost us the win. And Wallace who is f**king killing me.

Plenty to improve on, contesting high balls I think the most important, it cost us a heap of possession. Need to be smarter about what we contest first thing and hold some kind of line away from the ball.

We have the best backs in the game for bringing the ball out of our own end, and it isn't even close. Morgan got injured because DMZ wanted to hit Morgan more than Morgan wanted to tackle him. And that was the story of the game across the park.

 

[mxlegend99]

Same shit all year in regards to attacking structure. Zero improvement

Apparently players having instincts and refleces are a result of our coach.

How can people not see that there's no gameplan at all?

 

[mxlegend99]

That was a good performance. Wraps on all besides Moylan who was woefully out of touch and down on fitness, it very well could have cost us the win. And Wallace who is f**king killing me.

Moylan saved our ass a bunch of times reading kicks well and coming up with smart plays.

He wasnt at his best. But woefully out of touch? No f**king way.