LIVE GAME Trial 2 V Roosters..

[wet tiger coloured bird]

put him in hooker punt liddle

 

[Tiger-ferret]

when its bad you kick a long kick and find the line so your crappy team can be at the other end. but no you kick out on the full and its because you dont have class players on your team

thats what benji used to do regularly...

 

[JC99]

There are no examples of premierships being won by a team without stars. None. People need to understand we won’t win with this team, and it ain’t on the half.

I'm not blaming our teams woes on purely Brooks, I just don't think he's very good. We definitely need stars and one of those needs to be the halfback

 

[BAGNF05]

how many 40/20?

Good point. Brooks should spend all week practicing the 40/20 to make up for our shit team.

 

[BAGNF05]

I'm not blaming our teams woes on purely Brooks, I just don't think he's very good. We definitely need stars and one of those needs to be the halfback

He’s the only one who gets shit canned every week.

 

[JC99]

He’s the only one who gets shit canned every week.

He certainly is not, he just cops a lot of criticism because he's meant to be the main man and he's underperformed for so long

Nofa cops it just about every week, Tamou copped plenty last year and pretty much anyone who had a stinker

 

[wet tiger coloured bird]

hes practicing goal kick now.

 

[wet tiger coloured bird]

we still dont have a goal kicker

 

[Bigscreentv]

Sorry, I may have been a bit cryptic and too smart for my self with the comment that you are referring to.

I know what I was thinking at the time but sometimes it isn't expressed as well as you would like when you spit it out with the keyboard.

The comment I made was sort of an acknowledgement that our middle defense has stiffened up a bit but our edges are still open to all comers.

Haha all good mate.

 

[supercoach]

Going to be a long season of Brooks bashing, reminds me of the Fitzy bashings all those years ago. Every game, every week. It’s the same old same old.

I agree he is no Cooper Cronk, but every week he gets smashed by supporters of this club. If you don’t think he is up to scratch, vent your anger at Madge who picks him.

After being a Balmain and now WestsTigers man for over fifty years, I can tell you Brooks is a gun compared to plenty of sevens we have tried over the years.

 

[JC99]

we still dont have a goal kicker

We do, he's just injured unfortunately

 

[tig_prmz]

The Melbourne bloody Storm looked slick in the highlights package. Was Munster playing fullback? He looked quicker than ever in the open space, I was convinced that was Paps running on to the inside ball.

Have really enjoyed watching Melbourne Storm play in the last 3-4 years.

 

[BZN]

The commentators saw it differently, at one point they were gushing with statements like..”the roosters look really good.”

I felt the commentators were pretty even with their remarks.

 

[hank37w]

I personally don't care. There are always players from other clubs at matches, you see them all the time. You are allowed to support your mates and still be committed to your current club; I think fans are too sensitive about it.

Or more correctly, I think some fans are being naive about what a modern footballer is, often less of a clubman and more of a self-brand. Penrith in particular, such a big nursery, there are going to be lots of guys with long shared histories but playing for different NRL clubs.

True club men are a dying breed, mostly mercenaries these days for want of a better term.

 

[TIGERPOWER]

Disinterested 🤣

Do you know what that means?

.
having or feeling no interest in something; uninterested.

Is the meaning of disinterested.

 

[TIGERPOWER]

Well it was the first time they’ve played together. I thought Brooks was okay, not brilliant, not terrible. Defended well.

I get that. But no matter who is inside him who is outside him, who is our hooker, we always get the same brooks.

 

[hank37w]

Geebus wishart looks like his old man

Your'e not wrong there.

 

[hank37w]

4 TRIES, 7 TRY ASSISTS, 16 Goals 14 LB Assists 12, Line Breaks185 Run Metres, 16 Tackle busts, 13 Repeat sets, 895 Kick Metres 53 Tackles 0 Misses, 7 FG per game minimum..

If only we could get him interested.

 

[bigsiro]

If you need your entire team to do good to perform good, you probably suck. Every player in the league will look better if they're surrounded by quality

Good players can turn momentum with a good kicking game. Long kick into the in goal, a 40/20, stuff like that. Not just the same kick to the fullback on the chest

This.
See Brodie Croft. Looked good in a Melbourne winning team. Was dubbed the next Cronk. After giving him a proper crack at half where he ultimately proved sub-standard, they didn't waste too much time in moving him on.
Likewise when he went to Brisbane. They acted quickly too.
So whether it's in a team of champions or a team going through a rebuild, significant shortcomings of a halfback are invariably too great to overcome.
We should learn from the teams who have cultures of success. They might make some bad recruitment decisions (everyone does), but when they do they don't make excuses, they make changes.

 

[BAGNF05]

He certainly is not, he just cops a lot of criticism because he's meant to be the main man and he's underperformed for so long

Nofa cops it just about every week, Tamou copped plenty last year and pretty much anyone who had a stinker

We just played a solid game and beat a decent looking Roosters outfit and he’s getting his regular blows in the gonads