time for a solution tim

[tigger]

And Skando is still sh1t. He is never going to be as good as the game for City a couple years ago..... He has had plenty of chances to prove himself and has failed at every hurdle.

 

[innsaneink]

Don't look for Gravy to save ya. 1 he's been injured, 2 he's back in the centres, 3 if you selected him in the pack your pack would get SMALLER, and 4. I haven't seen him put on one of his Kamakaze hit ups since he broke his arm last year.

Shame to hear Lima dogged it. He was brutal against us and that was coming on top of some good reports. Still he has the bulk and when going hits up well. With Cashy injured he should be given a go. Sheens the turnip will fill his team with 19 year old midgets, but won't give anyone over 20 a go in the Front Row #-o . Maybe he won't go any good - and maybe he'll be a relevation, but 1 thing is 100% beyond dispute. The Tigers pack is too small. In a fair dinkum side Gibbs would be playing 2nd Row. The fair dinkum side leading the comp has a 193cm 107kg monster name Waterhouse playing lock.
:shock:

Only Skando matches those numbers for the Tigers - and you wonder why you concede the most metres and have no go forward. :roll: :roll: :roll:

Nobodies wondering.....its plain to see for one and all were too small in the forwards...even a moron like Tugger could work that out.

 

[yappy]

Yappy, stop trying to get all of Balmain's players into the filthy NRL side.

I'm not THAT transparent am I 8)

 

[Bald Tiger]

Jeff Lima did not dog it in the PL game on Friday. He played second row not front row. The props were Jamie Small and Robbie Simpkins with George Azzi coming off the bench. Jeff played most of the game in my recollection. He was used in a different role by coach Peter Camroux. Jeff was running much wider out and taking the ball up less, but was doing as much tacking as ever. It was interesting given that if he finally get his chance in first grade it will have to be as a prop. And we could do a lot worse than Jamie Small - who at least takes the ball up with vigour and speed - or Robbie Simpkins who has a step and can off-load. While I sympathise with Tigger over Balmian losing our best forwards I am sure those three are desperate to get their chance in first grade and certainly deserve it.

 

[magpiemax]

Jeff Lima did not dog it in the PL game on Friday. He played second row not front row. The props were Jamie Small and Robbie Simpkins with George Azzi coming off the bench. Jeff played most of the game in my recollection. He was used in a different role by coach Peter Camroux. Jeff was running much wider out and taking the ball up less, but was doing as much tacking as ever. It was interesting given that if he finally get his chance in first grade it will have to be as a prop. And we could do a lot worse than Jamie Small - who at least takes the ball up with vigour and speed - or Robbie Simpkins who has a step and can off-load. While I sympathise with Tigger over Balmian losing our best forwards I am sure those three are desperate to get their chance in first grade and certainly deserve it.

Here Here. 8)

 

[bonstonker]

i see a few calls for viane,and his game is being missed big time.
it was his game off the bench that i said pre season was a very important role for the tigers.
and so far we have nothing,he may not be big,but last year he made big metres along with big hits and created second phase play.
his play can get a team inspired when fatigue sets in and also fear in the opposition when he hits.
i remember your comments on him last year yappy when he returned from his broken arm,and him not running with the same intensity that got him into first grade.
i was worried pre season when i noticed sheens never mentioned viane in any sort of way and wonder just what has changed with viane to be so far out of the picture.

alot of people have been impressed with halatau and his running game,but his defensive game this year has been way below nrl standard.
92 tackles with 15 misses is not good enough and he must improve this in a huge way.
you should only be missing 1 tackle every 20 and halatau is at 4.6 every 20.

graham is the player to miss the starting line up in our backrow,buckets is making more tackles and less mistackles,making more offloads and just as many yards and generally more effective than graham.

for the game against manly i would go for skando,farah,gibbs to start along with lima,buckets and sattler .a pure mix of youth and experience.

the bench will be boof to come on after 20mins so the pace of the game has time to settle along with halatau,heigo and galea.for the panthers game i would start boof in second row.

switch fitzy to centre along with reynolds to half and prince 5/8.elford stays in the centres with covell coming in for miles.although i would like to know if pethybridge is ready for first grade defensively.he has certainly scored a few times this year and has the pace to go all the way.

suddenly we have more go forward and enough pace out wide to take advantage of the extra room created by the better pack.there are also enough utilites to cover for injury,we can't over do it with utilites in our team like we currently are.

i have opted to drop graham and wilson simply because of the more positive effect other players may have in this team not because of poor form.we need more grunt so graham misses out and we need grunt on the bench and wilson makes way for that along with the pace of fitzy at centre.
our current team does not have enough balance at the moment and hard decisions need to be made.

 

[Snide the Tiger]

The back row is totally out of balance - we need some f**king dynamic ball-runners to complement the ball-players!

We need a couple of bustling back-rower that can break the line and create second phase play - and I agree with bonstonker that in our current ranks Viane and Heigho are the best potential options!

The relative power & mongrel of Manu and O'Donnell are sadly missing!