Round 25 v Sharks

[mattw5]

Sloan needs to go develop his game in the Super League cut our losses & give him permission to leave.

 

[Georgeg]

Has anybody else noticed that the 2 teams Flanno wanted to beat the most (bulldogs & sharks) have beaten us convincingly twice this year! Maybe Flanno should keep his private issues to himself & not share it with the media. It just gives the opposition extra incentive.

 

[since77]

Tries hard but he’s no 5/8. Not many options at the moment. Marschke??

I'm just surprised so many people thought Bird was good. I thought he tried hard but he just got in the way. No one in the team seemed to know what he was going to do. Some of the dropped ball was his fault IMO.

 

[St Tangles]

Everyone is so negative. Yes we lost a crucial game, but zoom out, did you even think we’d be in this position in the first place? We played a top 4 team and lost. Wow what a shock after battling for the spoon last year

It's not the losing that gets people upset

It's the way we lose

We look like we give up

 

[since77]

Yesterdays game once again highlights how much we need quality front rowers. How many games this year have we struggled to get out of our own end? The Scum did it with ease.
Lawrie once again a deadset waste of a jersey. I categorically refuse to believe we don't have better options.

 

[Lovemedragons]

People talking about the orchestration of the finals by the nrl but today, just like against the dogs a couple weeks ago we were given a prime opportunity and flopped big time. No one to blame but us. More or less has been the result in any big time match this year against credible opposition ie a flogging.

was embarrassing today. No excuses.

yep point taken

 

[Old Timer]

Everyone is so negative. Yes we lost a crucial game, but zoom out, did you even think we’d be in this position in the first place? We played a top 4 team and lost. Wow what a shock after battling for the spoon last year

The fanfare surrounding S F and the constant talking him up with what he has done with this team means that with 3 rounds to go we shouldn’t be copping a flogging after a tough win.

The +/- clearly shows we are a poor team in attack & defence however some think including the dumb arse media that after jagging a few wins we are some how gigantic improvers but when we cop a belting they hop off our horse very quickly.

We in here try to find ways to talk it all up like

Sloan has improved ffs he caught some bombs in a couple of games back to back and he made a few critical tackles but IMO improvement means you don’t regress to your old ways but Sloan does exactly that.

Leilua still a poor defensive player and unfit

Lawrie well nothing more to say.

Hunt same old Ben.

F M well and truly over rated.

T E little wonder why he is with us and not the Storm

C T talked up because of tough carries but takes intercepts and is caught within 10 paces

Feagai’s were rightly on the outer in this place but a couple of goodish games and all of a sudden S F has turned them around and they are keepers fmd they are barely back up.

Of course there are others but we know the truth about them.

Other than the ladder position I would really like to know where the improvement is and how much of it has been sustained and that IMO sits directly with the coach.

If improvements are not sustained then why call them improvements aren’t they just an occasional blip on the radar?

 

[justadragon]

Its been that long since we have even contended for a finals spot that we dont know how to handle ourselves as a club in total, both players and staff cant deal with the pressure, to go a step further even big time games like Anzac Day or a win to stay in touch with the top 8 over the years, we dont show up, no matter who the coach is. Like lets face it what has been our aspiration the last few years, either not to win the wooden spoon or to break into the top 8.
My point further goes that as a club in total our mindset is, we have achieved if we make the 8, not hey lets give the premiership a red hot go and at least show our fans that if we make the 8, we will be able to compete. Yesterday just proved that even if we were to make the 8 the Sharks could have been one of the teams we played first up, and what would we have said after that result, hip hip hooray we made the 8 but we were f$%ken cannon fodder first up.

As a club in whole, look at our KOE and JF sides as well, yes you can throw in NRLW, this will possibly be the 3rd year running where not one team from the Dragons has competed in finals. What makes our club so bad across the board, we won SG BALL, and this year JF had no excuses but they have self imploded, KOE have improved slightly but they still throw away games. I know Flanno is trying to get this winning mindset across the club, the NRL side has been the most inconsistent side in the league and certainly cant handle any pressure or expectations put on them. I do understand losing to the top teams but why must we give up huge scores to them.

When other teams are already predicting that they will be in the 8 at the expense of the Dragons there is certainly something wrong with the way our club is being looked at, and I'm sorry to say it's being looked as as a bunch of losers. We all know our leadership has been questionable to say the least and yesterdays game plus all the other critical games that we have lost, its been non existent. Our many great captains of the past, how many would have stood for the performances that we have had this year. I cant think of one, why because they loved the Dragons and they were winners and great men, they would never take from the club but they would always give !!!

 

[jeffdragon]

Twice we should of challenged.
One where ball was knocked out by the knee and another where there was a hand on the ball.

Also we need forwards.
I get disappointed when we are linked to a player like Safiti.
As the forwards we heve don't cut it.
Val and Cookie coming but can't do much if pack is still shit.

 

[baggygreen man]

Sloan needs to go develop his game in the Super League

He and Su'A are our most improved players. Sloan now plays with intent in kick return, under the bomb and defense. Did you miss his on line ball and aller that saved us six points we could not afford to lose early in the second stanza. Lack of creativity from our halves and specially Hunts inability to control a game are the reasons we will miss yet another final series. The sixth since he joined us.