Round 5 v Parramatta Eels

[RedVDave]

Gutho to have an absolute blinder.

Lomax to either have the game of his life or an absolute shocker.

 

[InFlannoWeTrust]

Or Jack to prop Cook to lock Liddle to 9 .........

Actually like this one. Cook did play some 13 on the weekend . Not sure this early in the season we can do that though .

 

[Dragonsteve2]

He’ll up for it for sure

Throwing tacklers over his shoulder?
Head slamming?
Running up out of the defensive line?
Missing kickable goals?
Heckling a highly respected former team mate after his team scores?
No look passes forward over the sideline?

We just gotta hope Rylesy doesn’t see the light and pick Zac on the wing!

 

[InFlannoWeTrust]

Have to play Tom E if ready.
CC

The forgotton man. Agree IF fit move JDB to prop and bring in Tom.

 

[Anon]

Missing kickable goals?

We’ve only had one kick at goal missed against us so far this year. Lomax won’t miss one against us.

 

[TheRev]

oh yes if TomE is fit this would the week we could use him.. well.. actually there are 3 weeks coming without guler.. and not sure how long we are without sele.. neither of these guys have played a single game of footy in some time though.. so even if they were finally fit.. not sure how much impact they would have.

We could of course have more injuries next week however.. this is how fragile we are.. losing Ryan for the season is a big deal.. someone who could play 60mins if we needed it..

 

[getsmarty]

Dragons prop faces long ban, no suspension for Mahoney

Canterbury's hooker Reed Mahoney has been fined twice but avoided an NRL ban, but his teammate Sitili Tuponuia and a St George Illawarra prop weren't so lucky.

au.news.yahoo.com

 

[sammymills]

oh yes if TomE is fit this would the week we could use him.. well.. actually there are 3 weeks coming without guler.. and not sure how long we are without sele.. neither of these guys have played a single game of footy in some time though.. so even if they were finally fit.. not sure how much impact they would have.

We could of course have more injuries next week however.. this is how fragile we are.. losing Ryan for the season is a big deal.. someone who could play 60mins if we needed it..

Bring in Eisenhuth to 13 ,JDB to prop rotation. I know eisenhuth isnt flashy but he does all the one percenters right.

 

[BrissieDragons]

Yep agreed to bring in Tom E in at 13 and JDB to 10 in place for Guler. This would mean no loss of energy and momentum. I know Tom E isn't flashy but he is another Mr Consistent or Reliable like Nightingale where performance isn't poor nor always at the best. Just right and being consistent means good supportive team mate.

Bench should be Liddle, Stewart, Egan and Toby C. This is still a very solid bench like I told everybody in this forum a week ago where everyone had doubts on me. Look at the game we witnessed! We had the best bench rotation of the week!

 

[KingFlanno7]

Lomax showed everyone why Flanno moved him onto the wing in that game against Manly. Shocking defensive reads, horrible draw and pass, shaking his head and throwing his arms around like a spoilt kid when he doesn't get the ball. Good first grader but I'm glad we don't have him on our books at over 800k he is probably worth 600 being generous..Poor parra

 

[TheRev]

there are huge 'ifs' on Eisenhuth and Sele though, if they arent fit they arent fit.. I guess we will know tomorrow, even if they are on the extended..

 

[sammymills]

Did the Huth play cup this week?

 

[Illusion]

Did the Huth play cup this week?

I can't remember him playing ....... Maybe wrong .......

 

[Slippery Morris]

Should be pretty easy to motivate the boys for this game. Put up 2 pictures 1 of Ryles and 1 of Lomax. 1 did not want to coach the boys because he held out for a bigger club apparently and that was Parra. The other wanted to join Parra so bad from Saints that he took a 200k pay cut.

I would really love to see Saints win this game by a massive margin but as mentioned above, Saints record at this ground is bad. From memory their 1st game was against a weak Wests team and they got flogged and don't get me started about their last game. What is it with Parra home grounds.

 

[KingFlanno7]

Should be pretty easy to motivate the boys for this game. Put up 2 pictures 1 of Ryles and 1 of Lomax. 1 did not want to coach the boys because he held out for a bigger club apparently and that was Parra. The other wanted to join Parra so bad from Saints that he took a 200k pay cut.

I would really love to see Saints win this game by a massive margin but as mentioned above, Saints record at this ground is bad. From memory their 1st game was against a weak Wests team and they got flogged and don't get me started about their last game. What is it with Parra home grounds.

This win would be the sweetest of them all for the exact reasons you stated. Can't wait

 

[since77]

I really don't care if we win this by just 1 point. Parra will be up for this game. They will snap their losing streak sooner or later. And we all know this is the kind of game the post 2010 Dragons lose.
I hope Flanno is making sure he reminds the guys what happened late last year after we beat Melbourne and then utterly f#$%ed up the Parramatta game soon afterwards.
I don't care if it's an ugly win, just take the opposition seriously and get the job done.

 

[KogarahWarrior]

I think Zac's problem is that despite being an obviously very talented player, he is way too much of a show pony, which we all know having seen him play at centre for years. In both defence and attack, he'll never take the simple option and wants some highlight reel type play, like when he threw that pass into touch or when he rushed up out of nowhere on Turbo and they scored in the corner. Granted, he probably feels like he needs to create something at Parra considering that his halves definitely won't, but even then, he'd be 10x more effective on the wing playing outside Penisini who is not a left centre and has been abysmal there.

 

[Victoire]

We miss Zac (the winger) more than any of our other defectors from last year. His yardage has not been replaced, nor have we replaced the constant aerial threat he gives us on last tackle. There were a couple of decent bombs on the weekend and we just weren't going up for them. He's a big loss but yeah, hopefully we smash them

 

[BrissieDragons]

2 predicted teams came up on news today. One source says Lawrie to replace Guler but on bench, and other one has Sele instead.

God I cross my eyes badly if Lawrie being selected. Lawrie is no match to the intensity and energy of those new guys. Seriously we need 1 more junior to join. Loko Tonga to debut.

 

[TheRev]

Did the Huth play cup this week?

Neither Sele or Eisenhuth have played a game in any grade.. Sele had a few minutes in the trial only before he re-injured himself.