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Thorman Not Playing

Agent Mulder

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18th man? What a crock of shit! is Smith kidding?
McKinnon? :lol: :lol: :lol:
And Wagon still at 5/8th? and Vaeakilki on the bench? :roll:

O....K
 

Chipmunk

Coach
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It seemed a complete waste of time playing Vaeliki the way he did tonight.

Very little creativity coming off the bench. Two weeks ago we left 2 players on the bench until 10 mins to go!

Smith should just use 4 front rowers on the bench, cause he isnt going to use anyone else from the bench.

Very little concept in this Club of the best way to use a 17 man, 12 interchange system. There never really has been!
 

half

Coach
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vaealiki would've been brought on earlier in a more desperate position

i'm going to buy some stocks in kleenex and get rich off you guys
 

El Diablo

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Thorman should ask for a release. Why did Smith bring some poor bloke all the way from Englnd to play premier league???
 

Ron Jeremy

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Thorman & Webster where dudded tonight...we really missed some spark of the bench tonight & it showed big time.
 

Ron Jeremy

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Who knows :roll: ....what a hideous selection having him on the bench....a player like Veaeliki doesn't come off the bench..he starts!!!
 

JasonE

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I'm very disappointed, im not a Parra supporter but i heard Thorman was in the 17 so i made the 90minute trek just to see him play, when i saw he didn't play in any grade i was gutted. Once again Wagon offered nothing in attack.
 

AlexTheEel

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Last week Adam Peek broke down in the warm up with an Asthma attack. Docotrs advised him to consider resting from the game but he decided to play. Had Peek not of played last week, I'm sure many of you would be on this board 1 mintute later blaming Smith for not having an 18th man. So I'll ask the question. Hypothetically, David Vaealiki bumps his ribs in the warm up and can't play. You have no 18th man. Your first divsion and Jersey Felgg teams have just come off hard, come from behind wins and are dead tired. What do you do? I'm sure Smithy didn't want to find out.
 

Chipmunk

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AlexTheEel said:
Last week Adam Peek broke down in the warm up with an Asthma attack. Docotrs advised him to consider resting from the game but he decided to play. Had Peek not of played last week, I'm sure many of you would be on this board 1 mintute later blaming Smith for not having an 18th man. So I'll ask the question. Hypothetically, David Vaealiki bumps his ribs in the warm up and can't play. You have no 18th man. Your first divsion and Jersey Felgg teams have just come off hard, come from behind wins and are dead tired. What do you do? I'm sure Smithy didn't want to find out.

What do you do? Well if Vaeliki wasnt fit enough to start then you dont play him at all, especially considering that they didnt even bring him on until mid way through the second half. They should have put Thorman in the 17 and had him coming off the bench with about 10 to go in the first half.
 

Suitman

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AlexTheEel said:
Last week Adam Peek broke down in the warm up with an Asthma attack. Docotrs advised him to consider resting from the game but he decided to play. Had Peek not of played last week, I'm sure many of you would be on this board 1 mintute later blaming Smith for not having an 18th man. So I'll ask the question. Hypothetically, David Vaealiki bumps his ribs in the warm up and can't play. You have no 18th man. Your first divsion and Jersey Felgg teams have just come off hard, come from behind wins and are dead tired. What do you do? I'm sure Smithy didn't want to find out.

He always names a 5 or 6 man bench anyway so there would be spares in this situation.
Or maybe not.
Maybe Smith is trying to be too clever.

Suity
 

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