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So it starts like this.
Moylan, Nikora, Graham, Woods out before team is selected
Feefs, SJ, Feki and Boogs selected despite being known to be hobbled. They had to be, there are no adequate replacements
Lose Dugan in warmup and SJ in running.
9 first choice players unavailable or playing hurt.
Thats about just under half your salary cap and half your starting side working unproductively. Tell me any business that can be productive when half the elite workforce is off on extended sick leave.
You all know I have been against stacking that right side with rookies. Have been from the start. However, there doesn't seem to be viable alternatives given the injuries. John "Mother Hubbard" Morris has a bare cupboard.
There is no rhythm and it's easy to see why. Has the same team ran on and completed a match this year? There is a lot of inexperience and it shows. There is fatigue in the old boys and it may be affecting leadership. There is plain bad luck.
To the geniuses here who week in and week out push for having this one dropped and this one put in etc you now have your wish and this is what it looks like. Not pretty huh?
Ratings
Kennedy - 3. Gun shy. Tackle shy. Tries too hard. He got away with a similar pass last week, not as bad, high rather than low but still shitty. The difference was he threw it to Dugan who had the experience and ability to actually catch it and turn it into a try. The kid saw an inch in that and took a mile last night.
Francis - 3. Was served up shit from his team mates and shit from Milford. Didn't handle that aspect at all. Did try his guts out with his runs but needs to learn not to be so upright. Leads to him getting rag dolled. Worked hard at cleaning his messes up and had success at least once.
Xerri - 3. FFS man don't run parallel to your own goal line when you are only 5-10 metres out. Got caught out and thrown back but didn't learn from it and did it again in the second half. Also had his Pomeroy suit on again and made simple handling errors. Going to be a gun but needs to get his basics right.
Morris - 3. Hope that's his one bad game for the year because as much as I love him as a player he was ordinary. I suspect he played on after a number of incidents which seemed to stun him. I reckon he's busted as well
Feki - 5. Best of the back 5. Must have felt like John Reid out there last night.
Johnson - 1. One good way to rip a hamstring is to play with an undercooked quad in your other leg. Victim of circumstance. Probably should have been still resting the quad tear rather than trying to "run" around putting himself at risk for an overcompensation injury.
Chad - 6. Played the same game as always but it looks ordinary when the support isn't there. Not that he faked much up but he was behind a well beaten pack and was surrounded by kids that were feeling their way in the dark.
Fifita - 7. Did a lot but it wasn't with impact. Playing hurt is not affecting his workload but it is playing havoc with his effectiveness. Broncos also employed the old Old SOO trick with him. Ran at him all day, he made 50 tackles, and blunt him. It worked and took the sting out of his already fairly flaccid hit ups yet he still trundled 151 metres out somehow.
Brailey J - 5. He's a real trier but he didn't really bring anything to the team.
Prior - 4. Playing distracted for mine. Doesn't appear to have his mind on the job. Where are the crash tackles? Where's the fast PTB gone? Where the leg drive gone? The offloads? Something amiss here IMO
Capewell - 3. You have a job. It's simple. Do it. Guilty of trying way too hard and making dumb choices. He probably should have played right centre last night with Xerri to the wing and a backorder bought in. Played like he felt he had al the responsibility and complicated his own game which isn't great at the best of times. Missed a whopping 12 tackles.
Sorensen - 1. The door is this way ----------->
Gallen - 4. Seemed to be too intent on being a tough guy and taking on the Broncos Kid Monsters. Came off second best for it. We'll get some good stuff out of him as the year goes by no doubt but for mine he's done as a force. At least he brings some experience.
TPP - 3. Back to nothing but I will say he was left on the bench far too long. Bloke like him will not get in the game if not used early enough
Bakuya - 4. Did what he could the best he could. With one hand.
BB - 2. I would have put him at half when SJ went off but that's me. Wasn't competitive in any way being a middle player against that bunch of fired up Frankensteins. Needs some peptides
Williams - 5. If he has more strings to his bow we need to see them. Works hard in defence but didn't do much in attack. Probably worthy of more than 31 minutes
3. Fifita
2. Townsend
1. Williams
Moylan, Nikora, Graham, Woods out before team is selected
Feefs, SJ, Feki and Boogs selected despite being known to be hobbled. They had to be, there are no adequate replacements
Lose Dugan in warmup and SJ in running.
9 first choice players unavailable or playing hurt.
Thats about just under half your salary cap and half your starting side working unproductively. Tell me any business that can be productive when half the elite workforce is off on extended sick leave.
You all know I have been against stacking that right side with rookies. Have been from the start. However, there doesn't seem to be viable alternatives given the injuries. John "Mother Hubbard" Morris has a bare cupboard.
There is no rhythm and it's easy to see why. Has the same team ran on and completed a match this year? There is a lot of inexperience and it shows. There is fatigue in the old boys and it may be affecting leadership. There is plain bad luck.
To the geniuses here who week in and week out push for having this one dropped and this one put in etc you now have your wish and this is what it looks like. Not pretty huh?
Ratings
Kennedy - 3. Gun shy. Tackle shy. Tries too hard. He got away with a similar pass last week, not as bad, high rather than low but still shitty. The difference was he threw it to Dugan who had the experience and ability to actually catch it and turn it into a try. The kid saw an inch in that and took a mile last night.
Francis - 3. Was served up shit from his team mates and shit from Milford. Didn't handle that aspect at all. Did try his guts out with his runs but needs to learn not to be so upright. Leads to him getting rag dolled. Worked hard at cleaning his messes up and had success at least once.
Xerri - 3. FFS man don't run parallel to your own goal line when you are only 5-10 metres out. Got caught out and thrown back but didn't learn from it and did it again in the second half. Also had his Pomeroy suit on again and made simple handling errors. Going to be a gun but needs to get his basics right.
Morris - 3. Hope that's his one bad game for the year because as much as I love him as a player he was ordinary. I suspect he played on after a number of incidents which seemed to stun him. I reckon he's busted as well
Feki - 5. Best of the back 5. Must have felt like John Reid out there last night.
Johnson - 1. One good way to rip a hamstring is to play with an undercooked quad in your other leg. Victim of circumstance. Probably should have been still resting the quad tear rather than trying to "run" around putting himself at risk for an overcompensation injury.
Chad - 6. Played the same game as always but it looks ordinary when the support isn't there. Not that he faked much up but he was behind a well beaten pack and was surrounded by kids that were feeling their way in the dark.
Fifita - 7. Did a lot but it wasn't with impact. Playing hurt is not affecting his workload but it is playing havoc with his effectiveness. Broncos also employed the old Old SOO trick with him. Ran at him all day, he made 50 tackles, and blunt him. It worked and took the sting out of his already fairly flaccid hit ups yet he still trundled 151 metres out somehow.
Brailey J - 5. He's a real trier but he didn't really bring anything to the team.
Prior - 4. Playing distracted for mine. Doesn't appear to have his mind on the job. Where are the crash tackles? Where's the fast PTB gone? Where the leg drive gone? The offloads? Something amiss here IMO
Capewell - 3. You have a job. It's simple. Do it. Guilty of trying way too hard and making dumb choices. He probably should have played right centre last night with Xerri to the wing and a backorder bought in. Played like he felt he had al the responsibility and complicated his own game which isn't great at the best of times. Missed a whopping 12 tackles.
Sorensen - 1. The door is this way ----------->
Gallen - 4. Seemed to be too intent on being a tough guy and taking on the Broncos Kid Monsters. Came off second best for it. We'll get some good stuff out of him as the year goes by no doubt but for mine he's done as a force. At least he brings some experience.
TPP - 3. Back to nothing but I will say he was left on the bench far too long. Bloke like him will not get in the game if not used early enough
Bakuya - 4. Did what he could the best he could. With one hand.
BB - 2. I would have put him at half when SJ went off but that's me. Wasn't competitive in any way being a middle player against that bunch of fired up Frankensteins. Needs some peptides
Williams - 5. If he has more strings to his bow we need to see them. Works hard in defence but didn't do much in attack. Probably worthy of more than 31 minutes
3. Fifita
2. Townsend
1. Williams
