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The Roar:
by Scott Pryde
What is Mary saying at halftime?
No, genuinely. I don’t have the answers.
Playing the snake charming violin and putting his players to sleep, perhaps. Or, I don’t know, using some men in black style shenanigans to wipe their memory of the game plan which worked well in the first half?
It just doesn’t make sense, the difference in how the Dragons have played in the first half, and the second half, over the last fortnight as the club fell to both Parramatta last weekend and New Zealand last night.
It was somehow worse against the Warriors, even if because it was only the second week of it happening.
The forwards were rolling during the first half, Jai Field’s impact was obvious, and Matt Dufty was solid.
But what followed was awful as all that went out the back window.
One interesting tidbit picked up from the game (and for the record, I think it continues to show how McGregor fails to understand the needs of his roster and squad, which has been a major thorn in the side of the Dragons over the last two years) was that just a single interchange was used in the first half.
Sure, the Red V have some big-minute forwards, but the lack of rotation meant that, in the last 10 or 15 minutes of the match, McGregor had all four bench players on the park, while players like Paul Vaughan, Tyson Frizell and James Graham, who should all be on the park in the crunch stages of any footy game, found themselves exhausted and having a breather on the pine.
That roster management makes it little surprise the Dragons are continuing to struggle in the second halves of games, but some of their fundamental skills and the like seem to drop away in the second 40.
That, frankly, may not be the worst thing in the world from a season management perspective, given the club obviously haven’t peaked yet, but with three straight losses and realistically only one super impressive performance against a hapless Bulldogs in 2019, there is a lot for the Dragons to work on in the coming weeks, as they drop from the NRL’s top eight.
The fact Paul McGregor has already been re-signed by the Red V is a concern. A big one.
(Photo by Matt Blyth/Getty Images)
Ah
So the media’s turning on you Waterboy
Dead Man Walking
And the Board will turn
But don’t worry - you can drown your sorrows with your favourites who’ve brought you down
Fool of the first order
I’m glad you done this Linespeed, I tried to but had trouble.The Roar:
by Scott Pryde
What is Mary saying at halftime?
No, genuinely. I don’t have the answers.
Playing the snake charming violin and putting his players to sleep, perhaps. Or, I don’t know, using some men in black style shenanigans to wipe their memory of the game plan which worked well in the first half?
It just doesn’t make sense, the difference in how the Dragons have played in the first half, and the second half, over the last fortnight as the club fell to both Parramatta last weekend and New Zealand last night.
It was somehow worse against the Warriors, even if because it was only the second week of it happening.
The forwards were rolling during the first half, Jai Field’s impact was obvious, and Matt Dufty was solid.
But what followed was awful as all that went out the back window.
One interesting tidbit picked up from the game (and for the record, I think it continues to show how McGregor fails to understand the needs of his roster and squad, which has been a major thorn in the side of the Dragons over the last two years) was that just a single interchange was used in the first half.
Sure, the Red V have some big-minute forwards, but the lack of rotation meant that, in the last 10 or 15 minutes of the match, McGregor had all four bench players on the park, while players like Paul Vaughan, Tyson Frizell and James Graham, who should all be on the park in the crunch stages of any footy game, found themselves exhausted and having a breather on the pine.
That roster management makes it little surprise the Dragons are continuing to struggle in the second halves of games, but some of their fundamental skills and the like seem to drop away in the second 40.
That, frankly, may not be the worst thing in the world from a season management perspective, given the club obviously haven’t peaked yet, but with three straight losses and realistically only one super impressive performance against a hapless Bulldogs in 2019, there is a lot for the Dragons to work on in the coming weeks, as they drop from the NRL’s top eight.
The fact Paul McGregor has already been re-signed by the Red V is a concern. A big one.
(Photo by Matt Blyth/Getty Images)
Ah
So the media’s turning on you Waterboy
Dead Man Walking
And the Board will turn
But don’t worry - you can drown your sorrows with your favourites who’ve brought you down
Fool of the first order
Or throwing Hunt under the bus for dropping the ball.
' The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.' (Shakespeare).
Yep, either one mate.
A display of total hypocrisy in my view.
I think a one off protest at the Taj of 10k of fans would drive the message home and maybe something will be done.
When Bennett was our Coach I watched every game expecting to win.
pffft. no
