About time someone told the truth and THIS is what should be being said in the press conferences. Joffa is one bloke I think has always has had his heart in it here and probably has more right than most not to....
Nice to see someone talking truthfully. He’s actually one of the few that can hold their head up this year.
Nice to see someone talking truthfully. He’s actually one of the few that can hold their head up this year.
Correct.
Very interesting to hear him say it wasn’t just the players that need to improve but also the coaches, admin etc.
Surely something is going to have to give soon.
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About time someone told the truth and THIS is what should be being said in the press conferences. Joffa is one bloke I think has always has had his heart in it here and probably has more right than most not to....
Make him Captain!
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I thought Tamou spoke well in the press conference also. Joffa's been good this year, clearly hurting and I prefer that to Madden in the background chatting to the Cronulla blokes. I want them all hurting in the change room firing each other up for next week.
Nice to see someone talking truthfully. He’s actually one of the few that can hold their head up this year.
Correct.
Very interesting to hear him say it wasn’t just the players that need to improve but also the coaches, admin etc.
Surely something is going to have to give soon.
It has to. Regardless of the Sheens comments a few weeks back, he’s not going to be here if we’re 0-8. That would be 11 losses on the trot.
I thought Tamou spoke well in the press conference also. Joffa's been good this year, clearly hurting and I prefer that to Madden in the background chatting to the Cronulla blokes. I want them all hurting in the change room firing each other up for next week.
Make no mistake with Joe, he would have been doing the same as Madden. But did speak his mind in the interview.
Joffa looks so frustrated out there. He looks especially pissed of when he keeps having to take a hit up of the back of ZERO momentum with 4 or 5 players right in front of him. What happened to the team i saw spread the ball for 50 minutes vs the storm ? Was it a little to complex for the boys ? 800 k some of these nutmegs get !!
Good on him for saying that.
It’s quite clear we don’t have the roster to compete, and that’s exacerbated by injuries. Yesterday we had 8 players out most of whom would have made the team (AD, Kepaoa, Laurie, Hastings, Roberts, Talau, Blore, Stefano). Craig Bellamy couldn’t have made yesterday’s team win.
But I get frustrated when we don’t play to complement our strengths or compensate for our weaknesses. The middle defence was mostly serviceable and in games this year we’ve been able to force some errors with our effort in defence, but we don’t have a strategy or game management smarts to complement that. The kicking game yesterday was terrible again. The only positives were Peachy’s grubber that LL narrowly missed (why was it a one off), Madden’s long kick on 4th tackle in 1st half (got good field position but only did it once), Brooks rolled it into the Sharks in goal in the 2nd half (but chasers didn’t chase), Brooks shuffled the pass off to Garner in the 2nd half when he was well marked (instead of rolling the ball into the in goal).
We got touched up yesterday not through lack of effort, but by not building pressure. The other highly paid half backs in the comp do that – not ours sadly.
@notherloss Joffa has been V solid and one of the few leaders in the Squad.
He is off contract at season's end ...isn't he ......another case of one of the club's best player going to leave at season's end like Tuilagi etc
The place likes like it is about to implode ......
Have a listen to this interview with John Novak Des Haslers mind coach.
He's asked what he say to WT players in the sheds. Says he'd pull the leadership group together and say that attitude in contagious, if you put your head down everyone does. Focus on your strengths and what go you here.
We desperatly need a mind coach for this team. Apparently admin said it's too expensive.
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Of our 5 man leadership group-
2 dropped - Ken and Peach
1 demoted - Brooks
1 injured - AD
Only one left - Tamou
@helmsey would know better than me, but you can do physc test and profiles to determine your character under pressure. I think of our 5 man leadership group at least 3 drop their head under pressure.
Without doing the profiling - I'd be having Hastings, AD priority the Joffa and Tamou as our leadership group. Lock it in
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Our leader and CEO Pascoe is on holidays in the NT during the competition season. Seriously this is just ridiculous. I just can’t believe this is allowed to happen. Pascoe must go.
