Zeb Taia

[Jake the snake]

Plays No8 for Parra in the Flegg had another strong game against a big Roosters pack. Very strong in his runs and very hard to put down. His brother Ben is not that bad either. Does anyone know where these Boys are from e.g Junior Club as they weren't originally in the Flegg side in the start of the year.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Are there any Roosters fans here.?....................no........................good.

Ive seen him before hes a good hard runner, just hope he comes really good in the future

 

[ParraMatt]

I'm pretty sure they did start the season?

I rate Ben more then Zeb

 

[Stagger eel]

Zeb has being playing in Flegg for a couple of seasons know, I think Ben only started this year from SG Ball . Zeb has been injured for most of the year thus the reason why we haven't seen much of him.

The Taia boys are from Blacktown.

 

[ParraMatt]

Ben Taia has played Premier League in his first year, Something that Zeb hasn't, Obviously Ben has more potential.

 

[Hurriflatch]

Or Ben could just be older

 

[Hurriflatch]

last year Owen Craigie had played 1st grade and Karmicheal Hunt and Sonny-Bill Williams hadn't so obviously Craigie is better then both

 

[Jake the snake]

Then why is Ben on the Bench??? Zeb is the stronger runner out of the two for sure.

 

[Stagger eel]

at this stage I definetly rate Zeb higher than Ben.

 

[greena]

Yes, he can run but his defense is woeful. He continues to go for shoulder charges, misses and leaves gaping holes in the defence.

Unless he can do something about his defence quickly I wouldn't be waisting anymore time on him. We have too may players in the lower grades who have problems with their tackling technique including Tim Smith, Fred Peterson, Jeremaih Pai, Feleti Mateo etc.

 

[Pazza]

How is his work rate and fitness?

 

[Utey]

They are both good young prospects. Against the cougars earlier ion the year they both got sent off. They love the biff.

 

[greena]

Good young prospects indeed. What a load of rubbish. I don't think most of the people who participate in this forum actually watch and read the games.

And by the way, it's great to try and nurture juniors but it has to be remembered that only a small percentage of good flegg players progress to pl, and even less to first grade. There has to be a balance between nurturing the young players and making decisions on their ability and cutting them free if you don't think they will progress. All clubs have to rely on attracting good young players from outside.

Parra had some of the worse years in the 70's when we tried to rely too heavily on our juniors

 

[Utey]

 

[MoJack]

They played thier junior footy at St Clair in the Penrith Comp i believe

 

[Eelementary]

Yes, he can run but his defense is woeful. He continues to go for shoulder charges, misses and leaves gaping holes in the defence.

Unless he can do something about his defence quickly I wouldn't be waisting anymore time on him. We have too may players in the lower grades who have problems with their tackling technique including Tim Smith, Fred Peterson, Jeremaih Pai, Feleti Mateo etc.

First to fix one problem - with Cannings injured, our go forward suffered tremendously. We need good young and fit props who can make good metres. The defence will take care of itself.

Now for Mateo - I didn't notice his defensive problems. In fact, when he played Firsts, I thought he was quite strong defensively?

 

[Jake the snake]

Who ever thinks Mateo has a defensive problem have to be Joking surely. The bloke tackles nice and hard and rarely misses.

 

[Utey]

I used to bag him about his defense, But against Melbourne he showed me. He looked very competent in both attack and defense. He does everything hard. Hits the ball hard and also defends hard as well. A player to watch.

 

[greena]

He does work hard in defence and has good stats, it's his one on one defence that lets him down. Against the roosters he missed a number of one on one tackles - just sticking out one arm

 

[Eelementary]

He does work hard in defence and has good stats, it's his one on one defence that lets him down. Against the roosters he missed a number of one on one tackles - just sticking out one arm

I guess most of the team has been guilty of that at some stage of this season, though.