Agreed many fans are just incredibly biased at times(I am too)…it’s why cam smith was so good, in a game like that he would have taken full advantage of the situation unlike our dopes. Heat of the game is just crap they are professionals, act like it and use your head.
Did she lose control of the game, yes. however, I believe some onus has to be put on the players. They were acting appalling and hindered her ability to do her job. The same happens with the male refs. we got some dud calls but the attacks on Badger are pathetic. She is a competent ref and had a...
he’s not great but he’s certainly still a starter for us…prefer him at lock I will say. Would like to see Doueihi come in at right edge when fit. Papalii and Batemen are supposed to be elite edge forwards and they certainly aren’t playing like it…both in pretty poor form
Api is our best player and Carry’s the team hard, somtimes too hard…Will be interesting to see how our halves play with a more traditional playing hooker
Excited to see what Madge does with the team, if I'm looking at his past team selection history I could see him running something like this, he's always loved a big bench and mclnnes helps cover lock while having Wighton at the centre offers halves cover with an edge option shifting 1 out...
Luai is a fantastic creator of attacking opportunities, in the SJ/Benji mold. we have had two good defensive displays in the past fortnight....but don't get it twisted our attack still needs improvement...Luai will make us a much more threatening team and if we can continue to improve this year...
Penrith have had amazing success…I however do not believe they are as good as top teams from the past…it has more to do with how poor the nrl has been since a lot of its class players have retired (JT,cronk,slater,smith)…they do grind well and that’s why they win whereas other teams will have...
Luai has the skill…it’s Ivan’s gameplan and structure…also one of the reasons he’s leaving…he’s instructed to be parked out on the left while Cleary and yeo dig in and do the same garbage out the back play to each other or to the ever boring edwards…it really goes to show how poor the rest of...
My real concern is benji said we’d be playing as a system with structure. Crab walking and allowing the halves so much time they make flanno look like Thurston is unacceptable. In attack it was the same garbage no one was cutting back and running good damaging lines. This is a key component of...