Soren Lorenson
First Grade
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Hindy ruined the debate by introducing the '2 try benchmark' and Latrell Mitchell and failing again to give us any crowd figures.
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That’s cause he died
That’s all he’s really good for
That’s a normal response for me merkin. f**kEN!!
McCartney didn’t, just his credibility.
Are you really serious??? Hayne was the sole reason we were shit in 2018? Actually Tits went worse after Hayne left.
Think that had more to do with not recovering sufficiently to his bad reaction to antibiotics.
What if we average the scores in our games against the Storm?
That has been our problem for years, our lack of mental fortitude, to be able to grind out a match. In the early 80's we had it in spades. Was it the coaching or the players? Maybe both. All I know is that once Ray Price retired our ability to grind diminished.
What, you clean the toilet?
But that's the key, defence these days. They stopped teams scoring more tries than they did, and won. And unlike us multiple times they take penalty kicks for goal when in a good position. How many times did we refuse the kick and come away with nothing? Sometimes that wins you the match, either physiologically, because you increase your lead beyond a converted try, or because that's the winning margin.
A quick fullback could probably improve our attack along with a quality centre. But do we really need another good middle? We have 3 quality props now, most teams have 2 and decent backups only.
Is that some new vegetable?
I'd say that kicks in general play and close to the line is one of the key weapons in today's game. Compare Shaun Johnson's kicks for NZ and Lolohea's kicks for Tonga. Johnson was shit and directly led to NZ being beaten by Australia. NZ couldn't apply or maintain pressure. Tonga's improved form is directly related to Lolohea's kicks which were excellent. Not once did he concede a 20 metre restart in the England and Australia games. Tonga constantly had good field position enabling them to maintain pressure on both teams resulting in victories.
No.
