Rumours and Stuff

[yy_cheng]

I do agree.

I think he is super skilful - probably the most skilful 7 in the NRL.

But it's how he uses those skills, sometimes, that irks me.

That's a great example - see your forwards are huffing for breath, kick it into touch, give them a breather.

I sometimes think that it is caused by the BA era. Effort on Effort, Chase the collision, keep deep, chase hard.

Yes it is what should be done, if everything is going your way.. if your players are fit ... if your players arent injured or suspended... if that's how your players strengths are.

But there are many factors in a game that can affect that and one size fits all doesnt always work.

There were so many times last year you could see the players were stuffed - Lane, Lussick and BA didnt replace them thinking they were machines and could go on and on.

 

[Pazza]

I sometimes think that it is caused by the BA era. Effort on Effort, Chase the collision, keep deep, chase hard.

Yes it is what should be done, if everything is going your way.. if your players are fit ... if your players arent injured or suspended... if that's how your players strengths are.

But there are many factors in a game that can affect that and one size fits all doesnt always work.

There were so many times last year you could see the players were stuffed - Lane, Lussick and BA didnt replace them thinking they were machines and could go on and on.

hopgoods first game

 

[gaffer]

if we go with an assistant coach hope it is a performance-based contract at first and not 3 0r 4 year one with a coaches option We have to be ruthless

 

[Pazza]

if we go with an assistant coach hope it is a performance-based contract at first and not 3 0r 4 year one with a coaches option We have to be ruthless

that could create perverse incentives

 

[emjaycee]

Not just playing roster but attitude also needs an overhaul. Kick chase, like defence, is largely about attitude....

Been saying for years our problem isn't skill, it's lack of Parramattitude.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yep like 2023 2024 for us we have been crap

Good clubs don't stay out of the 8 very long.

Agreed, but this wouldn’t be the first time we missed the eight in successive years. In a 17 team comp an average team should miss the eight more often than not. How much better than average are we?

 

[King-Gutho94]

@Tiger5150

Nofa has resurfaced moving back home & closer to Concord

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Cleary - yes
DCE - I’d say on par due to DCE’s garbage defence
Hughes - Moses gets the nod due to his kicking game.

I get the frustration at having to fork out $1-$1.2 for Moses. But that’s just what elite halves cost. I think the perfect example of what you get for the next tier down is our other half. He’s a very good second fiddle, but he can’t run the show.

We always talk about freeing up Drown when Moses is injured. I wonder how we’d go freeing up Moses and giving him more possessions without Drown.

I think they play very different roles. Drown can play Moses’ role, but to a poor standard. The best role for him is like another fullback, similar to Munster or Wighton. Not exactly second fiddle, but definitely ‘run first’. To put another way, he’s probably the main guy you want to get the ball to after an offload or quick ptb, but he’s second fiddle on the last tackle. Which is the most important tackle in a set.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Such as?

Ternt Barnet

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He's perhaps not our biggest issue, but I'm sick, and tired, of seeing us constantly hit our opponents' 20-metre zone, and his last tackle option results in nothing.

Not enough try assists?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well we can afford plenty, yet we have fu*k all.

No we have pretty good juniors. Better than most clubs.

Just not better than all of them.

 

[Twizzle]

I don’t think anyone has any true idea where we are at with it, except those running the show.

first sensible post I've read about the new coaching position

 

[84 Baby]

first sensible post I've read about the new coaching position

What about the response you gave @Stevie in the other thread?

 

[Tiger5150]

@Tiger5150

Nofa has resurfaced moving back home & closer to Concord

He was at Leichhardt on Saturday, now at Glebe, thats moving away from Concord....and Parramatta. you guys should strike before the Roosters grab him.

 

[Tiger5150]

I have terminated my self imposed exile to manifest this into existence.

FFS

 

[Stevie]

What about the response you gave @Stevie in the other thread?

No one cares about me mate.

 

[Tiger5150]

No one cares about me mate.

 

[oldmancraigy]

first sensible post I've read about the new coaching position

Isn't it a logically false statement, because he is claiming he knows where the system is at by attributing his supposed knowledge of the knowledge of others.

OK, stop it old.

@Matty Bhoy I apologise. I'll go take a long hard look at myself.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

so this mindset that has come over us in the last 2 games where we go in to our shells and seem to try and protect a lead is pure folly.

We didn’t go into our shell against the Dogs, we kept dropping the f**king ball.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It's going to be a long and wasted decade in front of us fellas.

I think I'm going to give next season a miss me thinks and only come back to watching us play if I see some real change in direction by this club on all the fundamentals we are so woefully lacking.

We are the underdogs.