Rumours and Stuff

[Bazal]

I probably didn't word that right. When I said 'effective' I meant he 'wins' the tackle 30% of the time.

Ah ok gotcha

 

[hineyrulz]

I agree. I think for our team there is less need for an attacking hooker. With our 2 ball playing halves we need the hooker to deliver clean early ball and tackle his ring off. I can also see Bevan getting into dummy half occasionally and using his speed against a retreating defensive line, ideally with Mennings or Semi backing up on the outside.

No problem with not having an attacking hooker as long as they are great in defence and give quality crisp service from dummy half (Peats) IDG's and Kaysa's service is very poor especially when they are tiring.

 

[Bazal]

Their service is both rubbish IMO. IDG's defence is great but he offers little else. Kaysa is very nippy and hits hard in defence but I don't think he will be anymore than a back up bench dummy half. King is easily the most talented and skilful but sadly he tackles like Luke Burt. As I said all of them are barely first grade.

If only we could merge them all into one player....lol

 

[Soren Lorenson]

If only we could merge them all into one player....lol

They'd still only be Matt Keating.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

If only we could merge them all into one player....lol

What, like a human centipede?

 

[hindy111]

Off stats de gois misses 2.8 tackles and makes 33 a game. On the ratio he is misses more tackles then most hookers in NRL. Isacc Luke was only worse I found
Liccha average 44 and missing 1.7 a game.

 

[Bazal]

What, like a human centipede?

I was thinking more like some kind of mutant superman. A human centipede would be far too slow out of acting half

 

[TheRam]

Im not worried about hooker ... i think degois is better than people give him credit for
Bevan is a class player - plenty to learn but he is very good
Of the spine players, I would say the biggest question mark is Gunco ... but i also think he is quite possibly the biggest surprise packet and wouldnt be surprised if he makes a real go of it

The biggest question mark in our spine is Bevan. Mostly untried there in 1st grade and still very light for a NRL player. Could end up being smashed and rag dolled.

Gutho is class and will be fine. Kicking game is the only thing he will need to show us that he has got enough skill there, to be an asset and a foil for Norman to work with.

 

[TheRam]

Our dummy halves didn't affect our attack last year (yeah there was the odd poor pass but overall there was no real issue), so why would it been a massive issue next year when:

- Norman will play more games
- our halves combo of Norman / Gutherson will have all offseason to work on our attack as opposed to last year when Foran wasnt really training
- we have some bigger forwards in our side then last year (Pritchard / vave)
- we will have a ball playing fullback which we didn't have.
- Jennings will have a full offseason with us.

I stand by my comments. Dummy half is and could remain our biggest worry in 2017. It stifled our attack on many occasions last season, it's just that some of you here are to stupid to notice.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

I stand by my comments. Dummy half is and could remain our biggest worry in 2017. It stifled our attack on many occasions last season, it's just that some of you here are to stupid to notice.

Or maybe you are to stupid to look at what BA is trying to achieve !!

 

[hineyrulz]

I'm less worried about the mighty Gunco at 6 than I am about the Dummy half posistion.

 

[TheRam]

Or maybe you are to stupid to look at what BA is trying to achieve !!

Or maybe Coach is fallible as he has shown before. Hookers need to give good clean fast service. The two contenders we have don't deliver on all those things anywhere near often enough.

Why do you think Lichea(not sure of spelling) is so shit and even had his own players spewing at him on the field? Lichea is a better defender then any of ours, but very similar in attack. All the best team have top notch hookers. We have a top team, but have plodders at dummy half. This can be very detrimental to our chances when playing a the pointy end of the season.

Just saying.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I was thinking more like some kind of mutant superman. A human centipede would be far too slow out of acting half

Yes, on reflection a human centipede doesn't seem like a practical solution.

 

[Gronk]

It's a shame that we couldn't get @TheRam as coach and had to settle for BA.

 

[El Diablo]

It's a shame that couldn't get @TheRam as coach and had to settle for BA.

and he should have been CEO

 

[Happy MEel]

It's a shame that we couldn't get @TheRam as coach and had to settle for BA.

Apparently Tep was on the selection panel.

 

[Stevie]

If we brought in a hooker it'd have to be s gun. We have 3 mid talent players already there. Not trying to bag them, just saying it as it is.

 

[Happy MEel]

If we brought in a hooker it'd have to be s gun. We have 3 mid talent players already there. Not trying to bag them, just saying it as it is.

If you look at each club's hooker options, ours are certainly towards the shallow end of the talent pool.

 

[oldmancraigy]

It's a shame that we couldn't get @TheRam as coach and had to settle for BA.

and he should have been CEO

6. Ben Jones
7. Isaac Watts

Imagine how many premierships we'd have?

 

[Gronk]

I wonder which Parra player will win this gong in 2017 ?