Round 4 v Dragons

[billypilgrimnz]

Man, no one said Mansour did anything wrong. This forum can't read.

 

[Frankus]

Mx, Mansours heroics won't translate to many wins this year if we continue to miss 38 tackles on average. We are lucky we haven't been murked yet to be honest. And yet our best defender is playing Reggies or only 15minutes. FMD.

 

[franklin2323]

our best defender is Whare. Taylor was shocking in NSW Cup won't be anywhere near our top 17 this year.

 

[franklin2323]

Well, I'm sure the NRL will give us our rightful 6 points given that we were obviously going to win if it wasn't for injuries. It's only fair.

Much to your disappointment we already have 2 of those 6 points. Where these close losses help is our F/A which if you can't win keep it close atleast.

 

[SweetandSoward]

Critical points
1. Wallace throwing the ball out at dummy half.
2. Martin getting pushed to the sideline.
3. Waqa everything
4. Dragons used a condensed defensive line we should have kicked early or spread it wide.
5. Instead we kick to nightingale all game.
6. Please speak to Jamal Idris. Miss the days where on the fifth tackle we just threw him the ball and he just did what he does. He was Sowies body guard. Sowie's defense is shithouse. Remembering that game where ben hunt threw a ball and someone ran over Soward to win the game.

 

[Frankus]

our best defender is Whare.

Lol

 

[franklin2323]

Lol

Taylor never bends the attacker over. Gives away a few penalties too. He's great at making high numbers but Whare makes the best contact.

 

[betcats]

We have a fanbase that truly believes Mansour and DWZ are the best wing combination in the NRL, so I'm not surprised there is confusion regarding our actual results vs expectations.

They are easily up there and were both amongst our best. The 51 missed tackles plus Sowards shit form and the dumb errors is what cost us. DWZ and Mansour actually performed like the best wing pairing in the comp last night.

 

[Exsilium]

If X player is on the field "we win", long list of players that is.

The dragons have been woeful all year, ask their own and they will tell you. We managed to make Rein look like a world beater. I don't even think they didn't even used their entire bench.

We played dumb football. Our decoy runs are non existent, set plays are "pass it to Bryce ", our most "promising" and immensely talented back Waqa Blake did exactly what he always does and we played our best defensive forward in NSW cup. Seeing as some like to play with hypotheticals, his 50 tackles negates rein's impact and makes up for the missed tackles and we WIN!!! Yay! Hypothetical two points!!!

We had Peachey, TMM, DWZ, Blake, Merrin,Mansour, Hiku, Soward and for the first half Cartwright and we scored 12 points. All that talent and it amounts to 12 points.

 

[maple_69]

Missed the game. Sounds shit. How did Martin go?

 

[Exsilium]

Missed the game. Sounds shit. How did Martin go?

Not sure he played football but he was on the field

He wasn't used much at all. Didn't kick or run any plays.

 

[Munted]

Let's face it, we are a boring attacking team that has poor defence hence the results to date. No ability to close games out by laying on more points, or by holding onto a small lead.

We don't even run any set plays! The defence is never second guessing and we dont play what's in front of us, we stick to the boring routine of 5 hit ups, or throw it to Bryce and pray, Soward back on the inside to a forward, Soward bombing etc etc

WTF is griffin coaching these guys to do?

 

[The Enforcer]

Sure I am. You keep on believing in this mythical world where we have zero injuries and we naturally beat everyone because we are just so much better.

Seems like some of your fellow fans don't like your factual and realistic thoughts on here. Let them carry on living in their fantasy world.

 

[Frankus]

Taylor never bends the attacker over. Gives away a few penalties too. He's great at making high numbers but Whare makes the best contact.

10 v 50 tackles a game. I know which we are missing at the moment.

 

[murraymob]

Missed the game. Sounds shit. How did Martin go?

simple Wallace passed to soward every play soward jogged across field passed to a forward inside 3 out of the plays.Martin never got passed the ball

 

[umina panther]

When TMM did get the ball he threw hospital passes or ran over the sideline but he should definitely be persisted with. Soward was f**king terrible, as were Smith, Yeo and Blake. Mansour was our best followed by Merrin i guess

 

[betcats]

simple Wallace passed to soward every play soward jogged across field passed to a forward inside 3 out of the plays.Martin never got passed the ball

Yep this is it with silly errors mixed in, we had enough ball to score 3 tries in the first half. I don't get the obsession with going back inside. At one stage in the first half we were attack from about 20 out and Soward actually had the defensive line on the back foot with Bryce Waqa and Dallin all outside with a bit of space to work with and instead of giving to Bryce and hoping he can beat is man and create an overlap or something Soward stepped back inside and passes it to a flat footed forward which just killed the whole set.

 

[mxlegend99]

Trent Merrin was our biggest metre gainer in the forwards. Dwz, Hiku and Mansour all made more metres than he did. our backs did all the work getting up the field. Our forwards took all the hitups on the Dragons line.

Cartwright and Peachey getting attacking plays is one thing. But we wasted so many tackles on front rowers running straight into 3 or 4 Dragons defenders.

 

[Nugget10]

We have to be the dumbest football team in the NRL. I only got to see the first half yesterday but what I did see raised my blood pressure so much. We are so far away from being anywhere near a top 4 team it's not funny. We have lost our ability to grind out games and we look like we are just trying to score from every set. Someone said we are the new Canberra Raiders. f**k that we are the new Warriors. So much potential but too stupid to reach it. Sacking coaches for no good reason.

 

[martielang]

Man people have got to chill. We aren't the greatest side in the comp but f**k me we're not near as bad as people make out. We got very easily be 3/4 or 4/4 and everyone would be knobbing each other off.

We badly need a straight/line running second rower IMO. We're too sideways, limiting our outside backs room. What I'd do to have Gavin Cooper back! I think Yeo has the ingredients but just isn't quite there yet. Peach needs to play up the middle.

Argue all you want but by adding Moylan, Whare, Segs to that side and we're a totally different proposition.

Edit: Gremsuhl could be that back rower we're after!