Rumours and Stuff

[hindy111]

In the modern game you need a lot more than just one worker in the middle.

There are these forwards out there that work and run hard with impact. Unbelievable hey? They can do both. Amazing isnt it.

 

[Glenneel]

Tepai needs to be running off Moses on the edge. I can see your point, but think Arthur is using him in the wrong way. Tepai is the type that should be running at smaller players on the edge and not up the middle. Tepai does get dominated but that can be said about most of our soft front rowers atm ... Alavaro and his soft buddy Mannah.

Oh no Jake, Bazal will be mortified. His all time favourite player is Alvaro, one who plays one good game in ten, yet becomes a world beater. His TA, LBA and LB amounts to zero, that's right zero, actually Charlie Gubb, another massive plodder, actually has 1 LB.

 

[Bazal]

Oh no Jake, Bazal will be mortified. His all time favourite player is Alvaro, one who plays one good game in ten, yet becomes a world beater. His TA, LBA and LB amounts to zero, that's right zero, actually Charlie Gubb, another massive plodder, actually has 1 LB.

Got under your skin have I dearie? It wasn't my intent, but I suppose the feeble-minded operate in a different manner to us normies....

 

[hindy111]

The bear improves with time while Mannah wont get better.
Why I feel Alvaro has top 17 potential but cant have both in our 17.

 

[Glenneel]

Alvaro is our worker and tbh he is as good or better then Tim.

Matagi charges saved us thursday night. Terepo fit walks into the top 17 as does Frank.

Unfortunately Terepo is another lightweight prop that makes little impact with his charges at the line, same as Alvaro and Mannah. But still, according to Pou, a prop is just there to tackle, which he is good at, so as in Dogs game we'll spend all match struggling to get away from our red zone so definitely one to keep (not).

 

[hindy111]

Terepo still attracts 2 defenders who have to try and tackle with some effort. Otherwise he will bust the line. Alvaro and Mannah will never bust through line.
I like Terepo. He may not be a top line prop ut he does add a bit of oomph.

Any updates in his injury?

 

[Glenneel]

Got under your skin have I dearie? It wasn't my intent, but I suppose the feeble-minded operate in a different manner to us normies....

No what I don't understand is you, and many others I must admit, who continually support massive plodders in our team. If these forwards are so good how come our pack is well down the pecking order. I mean we played the Raiders twice and were beaten both times yet the Raiders have won 6 games all season, so only beaten 5 teams in total. Most of our punch comes from our back rowers whereas from the props from most other teams. Until we get rid of these plodding props we'll forever be an average team, struggling forever to get consistently into the final 8.

 

[hindy111]

And why BA signed Frank Matagi and Meehan and Evans . He knows its a problem.

Wicks and Terepo starting last season was better then Mannah and Alvaro.

It is worse starting two props in comp.

 

[Glenneel]

Is it just me or has Tamou turned into a giant Mannah pillow. You know the world's softest pillow, where Tamou almost stops at the D line. And again imo the refs heavily favoured Souths, much like they did in our game against them, allowing Souths to lay all over them for an age, one bloke to grab Blake by the throat and throw him over is body and for a Souths marker, who was never on-side, to tackle riff player to stop a try being scored. That is just a few of the anomalies I noticed and when game out of reach started giving penalties to Penrith.

 

[hineyrulz]

Tamou is one of the biggest myths in RL, he doesn't look half the player not working off the back of Scott. He hasn't been missed at all.

 

[Bazal]

No what I don't understand is you, and many others I must admit, who continually support massive plodders in our team. If these forwards are so good how come our pack is well down the pecking order. I mean we played the Raiders twice and were beaten both times yet the Raiders have won 6 games all season, so only beaten 5 teams in total. Most of our punch comes from our back rowers whereas from the props from most other teams. Until we get rid of these plodding props we'll forever be an average team, struggling forever to get consistently into the final 8.

If many others disagree with you, have you perhaps considered you might not be entirely correct?

Mannah is having a shocker and should be dropped. The bloke looks like he's got Alzheimers. But Alvaro is a genuine NRL level prop and deserves his place in the side. The issue isn't anything Alvaro does. The issue is we haven't got a big impact prop apart from Vave, and he's more fat than big. Even Nathan Brown averages 8m or so a run. That's why we bought Evans.

I'm quite sick of people who don't understand the concept of a forward rotation though, and this discussion has been done to death, so you continue to cling on to your scapegoat all you like tbh.

 

[Bazal]

Tamou is one of the biggest myths in RL, he doesn't look half the player not working off the back of Scott. He hasn't been missed at all.

I don't reckon he's a myth, I just reckon he's a bit of a tosser. The bloke can definitely play, but for whatever reason he's not putting in at Penrith.

Then again, Hook is about as inspirational as a discarded, sun-bleached Pringles can, so maybe it's not all on Tamou

 

[Poupou Escobar]

There are these forwards out there that work and run hard with impact. Unbelievable hey? They can do both. Amazing isnt it.

And teams are full of them hey? Finucane, Glasby, McLean - no better than the blokes in our top 17.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

But still, according to Pou, a prop is just there to tackle,

According to Arthur's too, actually.

 

[Chipmunk]

And teams are full of them hey? Finucane, Glasby, McLean - no better than the blokes in our top 17.

Finucane, Glasby and McLean are far superior to every middle forward we have besides Brown, The coach has such little faith in most of our middle forwards that he struggles to give them much more than 30 minutes a game.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Finucane, Glasby and McLean are far superior to every middle forward we have besides Brown, The coach has such little faith in most of our middle forwards that he struggles to give them much more than 30 minutes a game.

There are only 240 middle forward minutes available, and besides Brown we split ours pretty evenly. Brown is much better than those three. He's a star.

I think you'd be surprised how ordinary Glasby and co would look at Parra right now.

 

[Bazal]

15 games, 10 runs per game, 87m, 26 tackles, 1 missed tackle

15 games, 10 runs per game, 91m, 25 tackles, 1 missed tackle.

One of these players is State of Origin prop Tim Glasby, one is Daniel Alvaro.

*I'm dropping it now....f**k Tim Glasby but*

 

[Wicked Witch Of The West]

Alvaros a poor mans Mannah.

 

[Bazal]

Alvaros a poor mans Mannah.

And you're a poor man's Casper. We all have our problems.

Look at me, I'm an alt that gained sentience.

 

[Wicked Witch Of The West]

Ok, cheers Baz.