so you don’t think those players coming in are going to help with all your concerns about structure and set ups . I’m pretty sure Benji does have a plan why show your hand in a trial. And he will last the season Richo knows how to do his job and getting rid of a coach mid season is not itWe have api, turuva,luai,bula,olam all to come into the side we put on 30 points and your surprised that supporters are optimistic. I can only imagine your thoughts had they lostI’m a bit surprised by the optimism after last night. We had some good individual contributions but I didn’t see much evidence that we have a game plan to win except to pass it around. Hopefully it is just misdirection ahead of round 1 but the only thing that looked good to me was Hunt quick play the ball to get defended backpedaling. We were also quite lucky that the eels made a lot of errors in their attacking 20. This was not a performance that would win an NRL game
sure but eels didn’t have Moses, brown, Paulo, lane, joffa so there was plenty missing on both sides. For me it’s less the cattle and more the system that was glaringly missing. In 2023 we had no trouble marching down the field but it was our inability to throw any shape or structure in the redzone that blew up our season. Even last night there seemed to be no thought behind where we wanted to be on the field to setup for tackle 3,4,5. It was just more settler hit ups or trying to barge over. We have the players now, Richo has done his job. Benji needs to prove he has a plan or he won’t last the season.
I doubt they’d upgrade him to a top 30 contract now but it mightn’t be such a bad move all things considered especially if another spot was opened up.@russtutty63 yes cant play till after round 11
My one word is fragile.
Whilst some individuals looked good and we got the win, I think it would be a different story if we had some real pressure applied.
so you don’t think those players coming in are going to help with all your concerns about structure and set ups . I’m pretty sure Benji does have a plan why show your hand in a trial. And he will last the season Richo knows how to do his job and getting rid of a coach mid season is not itWe have api, turuva,luai,bula,olam all to come into the side we put on 30 points and your surprised that supporters are optimistic. I can only imagine your thoughts had they lostI’m a bit surprised by the optimism after last night. We had some good individual contributions but I didn’t see much evidence that we have a game plan to win except to pass it around. Hopefully it is just misdirection ahead of round 1 but the only thing that looked good to me was Hunt quick play the ball to get defended backpedaling. We were also quite lucky that the eels made a lot of errors in their attacking 20. This was not a performance that would win an NRL game
sure but eels didn’t have Moses, brown, Paulo, lane, joffa so there was plenty missing on both sides. For me it’s less the cattle and more the system that was glaringly missing. In 2023 we had no trouble marching down the field but it was our inability to throw any shape or structure in the redzone that blew up our season. Even last night there seemed to be no thought behind where we wanted to be on the field to setup for tackle 3,4,5. It was just more settler hit ups or trying to barge over. We have the players now, Richo has done his job. Benji needs to prove he has a plan or he won’t last the season.
what gives me some hope that there is a plan is that Bird was insisting post match he wanted to play lock. If he is lock and we haven’t seen that in the pre season it hints that our true structure is still yet to be seen.
@russtutty63 It will be interesting watching the halves .. Luai plays what he sees and also moves across the ground as Galvin does , I do not think structure is in the play list .
A good trial and plenty of positive and we still have Api, Luai, Turuva and Bula to come back in.
I think Api & Luai will bring more structure but it does look like we’ll be letting Lachie play a great deal of eyes up footy which isn’t such a bad thing as he’ll learn to choose his moments better as he plays more with Luai anyway. It’s unlikely we’re going to be a great defensive team so if we can be a better attacking team and improve our defence just a little we’ll move up the ladder.@russtutty63 It will be interesting watching the halves .. Luai plays what he sees and also moves across the ground as Galvin does , I do not think structure is in the play list .
I think Api & Luai will bring more structure but it does look like we’ll be letting Lachie play a great deal of eyes up footy which isn’t such a bad thing as he’ll learn to choose his moments better as he plays more with Luai anyway. It’s unlikely we’re going to be a great defensive team so if we can be a better attacking team and improve our defence just a little we’ll move up the ladder.@russtutty63 It will be interesting watching the halves .. Luai plays what he sees and also moves across the ground as Galvin does , I do not think structure is in the play list .
I don't know, we didn't really throw any shape at the opposition in the red zone during the trials, for me that comes down to gameplan and not missing players.
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