Rumours and Stuff

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

If Tedesco, Tommy T, Gutho, Hayne, Dugan, Cotric are all unavailable he’s a slim chance

Some of them will be retired by the time he's champing at the bit.

 

[strider]

I have been watching Tepai for a while. I reckon he is type of guy that is still slowly improving. His problem is involvment. He is still 22 and I wouldn't dismiss him yet as he is still NRL quality. Just not elite yet.

24 is the age I see Tepai being his complete package at which point he may or may not be an origin player. He will however give 6 or 7 years at that level which wont be far off origin level as he continues to improve slowly. His problem was he come into NRL 2 yrs too early maybe 3 even. He shouldn't of come in untill 2016 at 20yld. He was never ready. Physicaly he is only getting his muscle tone now.
Niaukore is same age and got to hide in lesser grades while this happend.

No, hi so calleds "problem" is that he puts alot of effort into defense - where as people only rate guys who run like a mad merkin with big hair

 

[Oscarman]

Has Mr 0.85%'s boyfriend Old Beesting Face been taken off commentating Tigers games on 9? Saw somewhere that he had. Guess the wanker can't maintain any sense of professionalism when he can't get what he wants.

 

[jk13]

Nah, storm was the 9 game and he dribbled on as usual

 

[Glenneel]

Wonder if French could end up replacing Slater as the Storm fullback next year... Strikes me as the sort of project player Bellamy would take on. There's a school of thought Munster will go straight back there but I wouldn't be moving him out of the halves if I was the Storm ..

I was thinking the exact same thing. Under Bellamy French will become a really good player with his skills, maybe not in Slater mould but close.

 

[Matty Bhoy]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Under Bellamy French will become a really good player with his skills, maybe not in Slater mould but close.

I agree if Bellyache can teach him how to catch

 

[gaffer]

I agree if Bellyache can teach him how to catch

 

[gaffer]

and how to run 15metres from the side line and in goal area

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Under Bellamy French will become a really good player with his skills, maybe not in Slater mould but close.

So, what were your thoughts on this weekend's winning performance?

 

[Gary Gutful]

So, what were your thoughts on this weekend's winning performance?

Lucky.
Nothing to do with the coach.
Dragons were shit.
Lucky.

 

[hindy111]

Lucky.
Nothing to do with the coach.
Dragons were shit.
Lucky.

Any side that has 61% possesion an extra 5 penalties a completion rate of 93% vs 66% with there main half injured and 2 tries gifted from fullback errors is going to win.Oh and a try when down to 12 men.
That is not genius its reality. We played well but the dragons where disguting.

 

[Gary Gutful]

We played well

Agreed.

 

[T.S Quint]

The Dragons were disgusting...and we beat their f**ken brains in!

It makes a refreshing change from playing against teams who are disgusting, but we still lose.

 

[84 Baby]

Any side that has 61% possesion an extra 5 penalties a completion rate of 93% vs 66% with there main half injured and 2 tries gifted from fullback errors is going to win.Oh and a try when down to 12 men.
That is not genius its reality. We played well but the dragons where disguting.

Drags playing badly had nothing to do with the result. It was all the blueprint

 

[emjaycee]

Any side that has 61% possesion an extra 5 penalties a completion rate of 93% vs 66% with there main half injured and 2 tries gifted from fullback errors is going to win.Oh and a try when down to 12 men.
That is not genius its reality. We played well but the dragons where disguting.

Why did they have only 39% possesion?
Who forced them to give away 5 extra penalties?
Why did they complete at only 66%?
Why did their fullback have 2 errors?

These are the same things that had us 0-6 at the start of the season.

 

[Dibs]

Drags playing badly had nothing to do with the result. It was all the blueprint

Surely the blueprint would state have the opposition play badly

 

[hindy111]

Why did they have only 39% possesion?
Who forced them to give away 5 extra penalties?
Why did they complete at only 66%?
Why did their fullback have 2 errors?

These are the same things that had us 0-6 at the start of the season.

No Hayne,Gutherson,Terepo for many of those 0-6

Look we won. Dragons played terrible and we belted them.If we played next week the same team would I put my house on Eels winning? NO I think we got a little lucky tbh. Moses had his best game in blue and gold. Dufty had his wprse for the red V.

 

[Gary Gutful]

No Hayne,Gutherson,Terepo for many of those 0-6

Look we won. Dragons played terrible and we belted them.If we played next week the same team would I put my house on Eels winning? NO I think we got a little lucky tbh. Moses had his best game in blue and gold. Dufty had his wprse for the red V.

You don't win by 40-4 due to luck.

 

[hindy111]

You don't win by 40-4 due to luck.

Our forms been great the last 8 weeks. With some more luck we would of won 7 of them. Bad luck cost us against Souths, knights, dragons game 1.
We should be on 20 points.
Also bad luck cost us against Brisbane, dogs game 1 and warriors . And with a little luck we beat sharks and Panthers.....

I'd go as far as saying if Hayne and Guth and Brown where playing like are right now along with Terepo we would have 5 more wins and sitting in 8th spot without luck.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Our forms been great the last 8 weeks. With some more luck we would of won 7 of them. Bad luck cost us against Souths, knights, dragons game 1.
We should be on 20 points.
Also bad luck cost us against Brisbane, dogs game 1 and warriors . And with a little luck we beat sharks and Panthers.....

I'd go as far as saying if Hayne and Guth and Brown where playing like are right now along with Terepo we would have 5 more wins and sitting in 8th spot without luck.

I don't disagree. Luck can play a part in close games, but its highly unlikely to be a factor in massive blowouts like the Dragons game.