Manu Vatuvei
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I see plenty of things every week to suggest we should be carving up, but there's a major lack of intensity across the board. Are the players actually fit? Seems to be a lot of guys running in quicksand.
Team of individual champions, no defensive structure whatsoever, and a raging inability to concentrate for 80 minutes. Sure signs of a team with a load of NYC talent. To me, tonight just says to me in 2 years time we'll have a sweet team, but be too inconsistent due to inexperience to do anything sustained in the meantime.
Worried about playing in Perth. Kick off over there will feel like midnight to the boys.
Worried about playing in Perth. Kick off over there will feel like midnight to the boys.
It's not ideal but there should be a fair bit of Kiwi support. We play the previous Sat and this game's on Sat, so it's not too bad. Look, I'd rather play them there than at Brookvale.
I'm more concerned with the Cowboys situation, where we might have to beat them to jump over them on the table. Yet, have we ever beaten them in Townsville (or anywhere we've played them in FNQ)?
Interesting to look at some history here...
After Round 17:
2012 - 9th
2011 - 9th (eventually finish 6th)
2010 - 8th (eventually finish 5th)
2009 - let's just pretend that year didn't happen
2008 - 13th (eventually finish 8th)
2007 - 11th (eventually finish 4th)
Our form at the moment doesn't fill me with confidence, but the pretty consistent pattern of late season charges does.
Manly will be out of theirs as well - and they never have to deal with that (apart from one game a season over here)..do they not? Whereas we do it regularly.