All 3 grades played poorly tday, and to be honest PL & JF were somewhat lucky to win. Burt was ordinary and shown up by the other threequarters.
First grade was shocking, Taia and Tsoulos were the only forwards to show anything, Hindy is a shadow of a couple of years ago, Cayless and Stringer were awful, Vella slightly better, but not by much. Coaching is part of the problem, Knights Panthers and Cowboys dont run straight at the defence, they run angles and try to step, Taia did that a few times today and showed what can be done .
Its easy to be critical, but we were embarrassing , Perenara is a step too slow for first grade, and our 6 & 7 were shown up big time.
Whilst all is not lost for the season, until the forwards try and bend the line and give our 7 and 9 room we will be stuffed.Brian has kept his favourites for a season too long, we need better angles and runners up front, a 6 that can play in attack and ffs Wade , look at your support because it eflt like you bombed 3 tries.
Peterson is better than Burt , but both are below first grade level as a threat.Too early to panic ( I hope) but changes will need to made if we get one more performance approaching this disaster, and yes the coach and the fitness gurus need to find a mirror and take a long hard look, as well as the majority of the players.
Oh well, we get 2 points next week