Round 6 v Knights

[jeffdragon]

That was a really gusty performance from our men and shows what some of us have been saying that we need to give this team and coach some time!

Some really impressive stats that show they're learning some lessons:
-87% completion rate, wowee!
- Not 1 set restart given away!!!

Suli, Hunt, Sua and Moose all played well and McCullough with the barge over try, how good!!!

I been waiting for Macca to actually score from dummy half since he got here.
I had to wait a long time.
Finally today.

 

[st.phil]

Yeah - but our lightning fast outside backs were about 10 yards behind him...

No they weren’t

 

[Willow]

I can’t agree re lawrie. If we watch the Gagai try back, just look at his effort (if that’s what you can even call it). Needs to be dropped for woods next week in my opinion.

I'll watch it again. But I was impressed when he fended off a would-be tackler by pushing his head into the turf thereby setting up a try.
We need our forwards to do this every week.

 

[jeffdragon]

Dragons win, lucky or not we have the two points. Knights were shit, because they are shit, lol @ knights, you suck!

Penrith game had no luck.
Knights don't have much to complain about.
Ponga this and Ponga that .
All about his contract crap.

 

[shiloh dc]

Did anyone notice during his massive botched try, Tariq Sims held the football in his right hand. The only defender Ponga was closing in front the right. So not only did he not look to offload to his winger he could not have fended off the only defender. A lose-lose option. Has football nous been coached out of Tariq or has it never been there.

 

[jeffdragon]

The Touch Judge will be staying in Sydney to officiate a Reserve Grade game- Not sure how they missed the Dragons player coming from an offside position to gather the ball from the Kick Off.

Like they missed the knights guy in a offside position after one their players touched tbe ball.

 

[st.phil]

.. almost blew it for us with that poor pass to Feagai.

Moronic

 

[Willow]

Did anyone notice during his massive botched try, Tariq Sims held the football in his right hand. The only defender Ponga was closing in front the right. So not only did he not look to offload to his winger he could not have fended off the only defender. A lose-lose option. Has football nous been coached out of Tariq or has it never been there.

He should have turned into a winger at that point, head towards the corner and he would have scored. Easy for us to say.

 

[carltonsouth79]

He was our captain. When the kerfuffle happened there were lots of Saints jerseys around him smiling and it was obvious they were mates.
Dumb Joey Johns and Gould were trying to make out that it was serious but it was quickly water under the bridge.
The commentary was crap.

I thought it was an idiotic action that could have cost us, Klemmer had a go at Lomax after the game so I think not all happy with what he did. Agree Friz would be great if still with us but from memory he wanted out at the time

 

[Old Timer]

The impact of Moose cannot be overstated.

The moment he came on the momentum of the game began to change and he single handedly dragged others with him especially Hunt.

Hopefully he keeps his nose clean and if he does we will benefit greatly.

 

[carltonsouth79]

I'll watch it again. But I was impressed when he fended off a would-be tackler by pushing his head into the turf thereby setting up a try.
We need our forwards to do this every week.

one of Blake’s best for us today I thought. We were lucky though with the six agains; he held on a long time in most of his tackles and could have given away a lot of restarts with a different ref

 

[Willow]

I thought it was an idiotic action that could have cost us, Klemmer had a go at Lomax after the game so I think not all happy with what he did. Agree Friz would be great if still with us but from memory he wanted out at the time

So you think the Klem thing is connected with the Friz thing? How do you know this?

 

[be55]

I can’t agree re lawrie. If we watch the Gagai try back, just look at his effort (if that’s what you can even call it). Needs to be dropped for woods next week in my opinion.

Just some food for thought as far as Lawrie's performance goes...

58 mins off the bench
19 runs (equal most of any forward)
172 meters (most of any forward)
57 post contact meters (most of any forward)
17 hit ups (most of any forward)
25 Tackles with only 1 miss (least missed tackles of any forward)

Something tells me the chances of him being dropped next week are pretty much zero...

 

[carltonsouth79]

Suli good, everyone else not so good

Wow, hard marker on Hunt, thought he was outstanding today

 

[carltonsouth79]

So you think the Klem thing is connected with the Friz thing? How do you know this?

Don’t know, just surmising as he singled him out after the game and was certainly remonstrating with him about something, guessing it was the Friz incident but no proof

 

[Como Connection]

The impact of Moose cannot be overstated.

The moment he came on the momentum of the game began to change and he single handedly dragged others with him especially Hunt.

Hopefully he keeps his nose clean and if he does we will benefit greatly.

Correct a real leader, I'd keep him next year.
CC

 

[Willow]

one of Blake’s best for us today I thought. We were lucky though with the six agains; he held on a long time in most of his tackles and could have given away a lot of restarts with a different ref

We got the six agains because the Newcastle defence were consistently offside. Our forwards were bending them back throughout the match.
Nothing to do with 'luck'.

 

[Dragon David]

Did anyone notice during his massive botched try, Tariq Sims held the football in his right hand. The only defender Ponga was closing in front the right. So not only did he not look to offload to his winger he could not have fended off the only defender. A lose-lose option. Has football nous been coached out of Tariq or has it never been there.

If we had've lost today, blame Sims. He botched a certain try which could have been 6 points and us leading 14-0 when the run by Sims was halted by Ponga and Sims wanted all the glory rather than to pass to Matt Feagai who was unmarked.

 

[Gareth67]

Really starting to go off this guy. Too much money too early ?

The man is still a work in progress , he has not as yet reached his full potential , it would be a shame for both himself and the team should he not . However it was a silly thing to do and I am sure that he now rues his misjudgment and will move on .

 

[Old Timer]

Correct a real leader, I'd keep him next year.
CC

Captain material for mine.

With Molo, Sua, Suli, Bird to do all the hard and niggly stuff Moose just needs to play footy and he is very good at that and a big plus is that he has a good tactical brain as well.