Round 3 V Newcastle

[Aliceinwonderland]

Who said his jaw was broken

Cleary said they will need to get x rays and scans to determine if there is any damage. According to SMH Nicolussi

 

[Girds89]

Yeo has a crazy record in the 2020's

Again today

120m. 36 tackles sadly a miss

I posted a few pages back my reasoning. I like to get other people's opinions so don't post what in school is called working out.

I work in a field where stats and analytics are needed for various things. I base my posts on that but I love the discussion

Thats fair enough but you arent good at acknowleding your errors injugdememt..nathan, gus, tago looking like one to..

You are a very switched on poster but the arrogance gets tiring.. i find most of your opinions very much on the money but its when your not that it gets tough..

 

[Girds89]

Atm yes

Next year maybe not. Burton had those rookie errors out of his game by the end of season

Burton was poor in the finals series

 

[Iamback]

Tago missed 25% of tackles today.
Bombed a try
2 more tries scored down the left side..

The good stuff certainly out weighed the bad but you can't ignore that side of it too.

All growing pains and to be expected

 

[GongPanther]

Smith broken jaw
Martin out another week
We find out who is the 4th backrower

Hope not.

 

[Girds89]

Tago missed 25% of tackles today.
Bombed a try
2 more tries scored down the left side..

The good stuff certainly out weighed the bad but you can't ignore that side of it too.

All growing pains and to be expected

Haha. He owned gagai..

One of the two trys was cause of a fatigued kikau and the other was cause lauinwas slow of the scrum and didnt slide quick enough...

Critta missed 20% of his tackles....

This is what im talking about. Just bias..

You wanted tago in the 14 or not in the 17 so you use the stats to show points you wamt to, yet fail to show the whole picture.

The reality is, both tago and critta got let down by their inside men.

But tago domintated a world class centre overall..whereas critta was on bradman best..

I know who is better out of best and gagai..

Yes hes a work in progress but man the bias sometimes is hard to read.

Just call it as it is..

Tago had one more miss than critta yet the attacked tagos side twice as much..

Im not trying to defend him and say he can walk on water. Just calling it as it was

 

[age.s]

Would have bitten your arm off for that scoreline given our outs, but probably slightly below par given how it played out. The Middle having issues and overall discipline being poor is understandable, the main concern for me was the left edge. Which of them was at fault isn't that important, they're our first choice edge (May excepted) and they were very shaky almost every time they came under pressure from an admittedly good combo. All 4 were absolutely smokin with the ball though. The Tago May combo is just electric, absolute ton of points in them.

Thought Luai had a good game. He seems to gel much better with SOS than he did with Burton. Good to see Staines really taking into the teeth off our own line, made some very tough meters. Edwards and Yeo were great too as per usual.

So Nath back next week. Anyone else?

 

[Bob]

Haha. He owned gagai..

One of the two trys was cause of a fatigued kikau and the other was cause lauinwas slow of the scrum and didnt slide quick enough...

Critta missed 20% of his tackles....

This is what im talking about. Just bias..

You wanted tago in the 14 or not in the 17 so you use the stats to show points you wamt to, yet fail to show the whole picture.

The reality is, both tago and critta got let down by their inside men.

But tago domintated a world class centre overall..whereas critta was on bradman best..

I know who is better out of best and gagai..

Yes hes a work in progress but man the bias sometimes is hard to read.

Just call it as it is..

Tago had one more miss than critta yet the attacked tagos side twice as much..

Im not trying to defend him and say he can walk on water. Just calling it as it was

Totally agree, I thought Tago went well, he might of missed some tackles but he has only 9 first grade games, he is a work in progress but I Though he made Gagai look ordinary a couple of times

 

[Girds89]

Totally agree, I thought Tago went well, he might of missed some tackles but he has only 9 first grade games, he is a work in progress but I Though he made Gagai look ordinary a couple of times

Exactly mate

 

[Iamback]

Would have bitten your arm off for that scoreline given our outs, but probably slightly below par given how it played out. The Middle having issues and overall discipline being poor is understandable, the main concern for me was the left edge. Which of them was at fault isn't that important, they're our first choice edge (May excepted) and they were very shaky almost every time they came under pressure from an admittedly good combo. All 4 were absolutely smokin with the ball though. The Tago May combo is just electric, absolute ton of points in them.

Thought Luai had a good game. He seems to gel much better with SOS than he did with Burton. Good to see Staines really taking into the teeth off our own line, made some very tough meters. Edwards and Yeo were great too as per usual.

So Nath back next week. Anyone else?

JFH possibly back

Yeah the left you can't pin on anyone it will happen. Intensity was down big time that will get fixed by being a GF replay

 

[GongPanther]

Would have bitten your arm off for that scoreline given our outs, but probably slightly below par given how it played out. The Middle having issues and overall discipline being poor is understandable, the main concern for me was the left edge. Which of them was at fault isn't that important, they're our first choice edge (May excepted) and they were very shaky almost every time they came under pressure from an admittedly good combo. All 4 were absolutely smokin with the ball though. The Tago May combo is just electric, absolute ton of points in them.

Thought Luai had a good game. He seems to gel much better with SOS than he did with Burton. Good to see Staines really taking into the teeth off our own line, made some very tough meters. Edwards and Yeo were great too as per usual.

So Nath back next week. Anyone else?

Martin, Fish, Leota and To'o remain out. Cleary def in.

 

[Iamback]

Totally agree, I thought Tago went well, he might of missed some tackles but he has only 9 first grade games, he is a work in progress but I Though he made Gagai look ordinary a couple of times

Again where has anyone said it was all him?

Kiks missed 7 tackles
Tago missed 4

Throw in Luai's 1
May's 1.

That is 13 from the sides 30 missed tackles coming through the left.

That is where it needs to improve over the course of the year

 

[Pomoz]

I said it would be a tough game and so it was up until Barnett thought he was at Lang Park and it was 1983. What was he thinking? I hope they throw the book at him.

If he had stayed on the field I think we could still have won that game but it would have been close. As it was, I agree with Benji Marshall, we did just enough to make sure we win. Every time they scored we came back at them hard and then went back to sleep again. It showed a lack of discipline and maturity, but then again we had Tago, May, Hopgood, L Smith and Staines on the field all at once and they are just rookies.

To beat Souths we will need a few of our stars back on board. Their forwards will give us a tough game and we will need some grunt up front. I'm not sure the pack we had today will be good enough to beat Souths.

 

[Girds89]

I said it would be a tough game and so it was up until Barnett thought he was at Lang Park and it was 1983. What was he thinking? I hope they throw the book at him.

If he had stayed on the field I think we could still have won that game but it would have been close. As it was, I agree with Benji Marshall, we did just enough to make sure we win. Every time they scored we came back at them hard and then went back to sleep again. It showed a lack of discipline and maturity, but then again we had Tago, May, Hopgood, L Smith and Staines on the field all at once and they are just rookies.

To beat Souths we will need a few of our stars back on board. Their forwards will give us a tough game and we will need some grunt up front. I'm not sure the pack we had today will be good enough to beat Souths.

Hard to disagree with any of that.

At fulk strength we are to good for souths. In our current state i dont know..

I tend to think if it was 13 on 13 today all day, we mightve been in trouble..s

But well done all.. next week will be much much tougher

 

[BxTom]

That last one that led to the final Knights try was ridiculous, considering it was a voluntary tackle. Before that I was accepting that we're trying too hard to keep them in their own end and getting pinged for it. An adjustment needed.

Saw that at the game. No players could have got off of that player in that time. Until then I thought ref wasn't too bad, but that was a gift penalty.

 

[WestyLife]

I'm not too disappointed with the lack of intensity. Those rookies will learn a lot with moments like that.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Saw that at the game. No players could have got off of that player in that time. Until then I thought ref wasn't too bad, but that was a gift penalty.

It’s MarioKart refereeing. Got to keep it close…

 

[BxTom]

I know Staines isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but his chase to pull down a middle of the field break was great today and helped turn a bit of a momentum shift. I have always thought he has pretty good defensive awareness, I like that he seems to be improving every week.

I thought he had a good game. He's a lot stronger with a pre-season under his belt. Looked for work and did some solid hit ups. I was glad he bagged a try today. Will do wonders for his confidence. I think that side will come alive when Cleary is back and in form again.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

I'm not too disappointed with the lack of intensity. Those rookies will learn a lot with moments like that.

I agree. It’s a long season and can’t be up for the whole ride.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

I thought he had a good game. He's a lot stronger with a pre-season under his belt. Looked for work and did some solid hit ups. I was glad he bagged a try today. Will do wonders for his confidence. I think that side will come alive when Cleary is back and in form again.

I thought he was one of our best. Agree with BXT; thought the finish was really great.