armchaircritic
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Yep!
I said last week that Tupou is crap...well he is STILL crap but now Vatuvei is the toilet paper
What are we all doing for Mad Monday??? I'm gonna fire bomb The China Beast's car.
Tupou was probably our second best player, if he can sort his defence out he is an outstanding ball carrier.
Manu HAS to be dropped. You don't think if we get a 2nd life, that Benji isn't going to bomb the living holy sh*t out of him? And he has shown he's a poor decision maker. Seriously, that offload on our line?
I'll give Brisbane credit though, they squeezed the life out of us and made sure the pressure got worse and worse, and we tanked more and more. Not one Bronco had a 6.5/7 game or less.
Of all the nights, that Manu didn't get injured...
We go for years having some success playing dour low-mistake, percentage football. Now we finally have some attacking weapons at our disposal and every positive thing that we had going for us in the past is just forgotten. Why the f*ck is it so impossible for us to blend an expansive style of football with a bit of structure and grind when it's needed? Why is it either one or the other? How hard is it to steady the ship after a poor set? We, at long last get a repeat set by grounding them in their in goal. Then we score, next set after placing them under a smidgen of pressure. Then we f*ck up yet again the set after that. HOW HARD IS IT TO SPEND A FEW SETS PLAYING FOR FIELD POSITION FFS?
What success?
We ended 2007 by getting flogged
We ended 2008 by getting flogged
We spent the entire 2009 getting flogged
We ended 2010 by getting comfortably beaten (were on the verge of getting flogged)
We deserved to end up 2011 by getting flogged (and may still happen)
We consistently make the finals. That is some success. We've had runs of wins based on hard work, discipline, ball control, defense but have ultimately lacked the attack to go all the way. We now have the individuals that can spark attacking plays, but don't seem to want to wait to set a platform and we react to careless mistakes simply by making more careless mistakes, often in our own half. We need to find a happy medium is all I'm saying.
Shall we skip the 3-2-1's this week, people???
We go for years having some success playing dour low-mistake, percentage football. Now we finally have some attacking weapons at our disposal and every positive thing that we had going for us in the past is just forgotten. Why the f*ck is it so impossible for us to blend an expansive style of football with a bit of structure and grind when it's needed? Why is it either one or the other? How hard is it to steady the ship after a poor set? We, at long last get a repeat set by grounding them in their in goal. Then we score, next set after placing them under a smidgen of pressure. Then we f*ck up yet again the set after that. HOW HARD IS IT TO SPEND A FEW SETS PLAYING FOR FIELD POSITION FFS?