How did it get worse?

[Eternal Tiger]

After winning only 4 games in 2022 and signing Api Koroisau, David Klemmer, Isaiah Papali'i, John Bateman and Charlie Staines........ How the hell did 2023 get worse?

 

[Halbrowne61]

After winning only 4 games in 2022 and signing Api Koroisau, David Klemmer, Isaiah Papali'i, John Bateman and Charlie Staines........ How the hell did 2023 get worse?

That ET is an excellent question .
Is it cause we didn’t remove all the cancer ? That we focused so heavily on the forwards we forgot about backs ? Did we allow ourselves to get caught up in nostalgia ?
All probably true but I’m sure we never thought it would get worse.
Ok, so we’re do we start looking for a solution to our problems.
1. ALL of the cancer must be removed
2. Now our pigs are in place, much more focus on our backline composition, training, game plan,etc.
3. Utilise nostalgia for good, what has worked and what hasn’t .
Chairman to call all players, officials etc together to read them the riot act about NON PERFORMANCE. If unfixable in current format we repeat step’1
Plus a hundred other 1%ers that add up to ……?

 

[Sco77y]

A horribly run club from the top down, with critically bad decision making and no internal stability. Nothing has changed there, and without pure luck, it all culminates in what we see on the field.

 

[twentyforty]

After winning only 4 games in 2022 and signing Api Koroisau, David Klemmer, Isaiah Papali'i, John Bateman and Charlie Staines........ How the hell did 2023 get worse?

Is Papali’i all in on WT?

 

[426Tlgerland]

That ET is an excellent question .
Is it cause we didn’t remove all the cancer ? That we focused so heavily on the forwards we forgot about backs ? Did we allow ourselves to get caught up in nostalgia ?
All probably true but I’m sure we never thought it would get worse.
Ok, so we’re do we start looking for a solution to our problems.
1. ALL of the cancer must be removed
2. Now our pigs are in place, much more focus on our backline composition, training, game plan,etc.
3. Utilise nostalgia for good, what has worked and what hasn’t .
Chairman to call all players, officials etc together to read them the riot act about NON PERFORMANCE. If unfixable in current format we repeat step’1
Plus a hundred other 1%ers that add up to ……?

I agree with most on this post
remove all the cancer is correct , still some there
I think we should have gone with Flanno / Marshal / Furner / Farah
i would speak to every player Monday individually and read them there goods and bad then also tell the ones who are poor last chance they need a marked improvement next week or elase
if we have cap space go buy a centre and a Half from Pommy land if there none hear , Bateman will know who to buy he just played 2 seasons there
Call Storm see if they want Noffa , pay half his wage and get it done , big Ken gone that’s 2 spots

 

[Halbrowne61]

Is Papali’i all in on WT?

I’m saying 50-50 coz he’s not being utilised correctly.

 

[426Tlgerland]

Is Papali’i all in on WT?

Papai doesn’t look like he wants to be there , said this yesterday after the camera was on him ,, he also just had a quick trip to NZ. , no idea why but alarm bells for me , my prediction he want see it out

 

[Tucker]

Don’t forget that our main problem last year was our huge injury toll.
This year we have a fully fit squad + these good players - our deadwood lazy bastards. We have also had a soft start.
Unacceptable to be 0 & 4

 

[twentyforty]

I’m saying 50-50 coz he’s not being utilised correctly.

He’s risking more time out?

 

[twentyforty]

Papai doesn’t look like he wants to be there , said this yesterday after the camera was on him ,, he also just had a quick trip to NZ. , no idea why but alarm bells for me , my prediction he want see it out

Hardly surprising, after spending a year of doubt about the move after we sacked Maguire and focussed on getting the spoon?

 

[Harvey]

Our worst players are generally the highest paid stalwarts

 

[Tiger Woods]

After winning only 4 games in 2022 and signing Api Koroisau, David Klemmer, Isaiah Papali'i, John Bateman and Charlie Staines........ How the hell did 2023 get worse?

We have improved a bit because the blowouts have stopped & the team is actually trying to win
You can see that in the second halves of all of our four games we had the chance to win but we still have last year's cobwebs to shake off
We need to start winning soon otherwise like you said it will get worse much worse

 

[earl]

Our worst players are generally the highest paid stalwarts

Brooks and Doueihi. The coaching staff either find a way to use their skills or put them in reserves.

 

[Harvey]

Brooks and Doueihi. The coaching staff either find a way to use their skills or put them in reserves.

Add Nofa who has already who was being picked over Tupou

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

Papali'i is putting in.

13 runs 113m (49 PCM)
42 tackles, 1 missed
3 tackle breaks
1 offload
1 try assist

All of our new, big-name signings are playing well. It's the guys who have been stinking it up for years who are dragging us down.

I saw another post somewhere which I totally agreed with. If you signed the players we signed to just about any other team, you are competing for a premiership that year, Yet here we are battling it out for another spoon.

 

[earl]

Add Nofa who has already who was being picked over Tupou

He isn't as bad as Brooks and Doueihi but what a dud contract.

Tupou is playing so well.

 

[426Tlgerland]

Papali'i is putting in.

13 runs 113m (49 PCM)
42 tackles, 1 missed
3 tackle breaks
1 offload
1 try assist

All of our new, big-name signings are playing well. It's the guys who have been stinking it up for years who are dragging us down.

I saw another post somewhere which I totally agreed with. If you signed the players we signed to just about any other team, you are competing for a premiership that year, Yet here we are battling it out for another spoon.

Dint see his stats , but they are good , he just doesn’t look like he is maybe enjoying it hear , wins would help no doubt

 

[earl]

Papali'i is putting in.

13 runs 113m (49 PCM)
42 tackles, 1 missed
3 tackle breaks
1 offload
1 try assist

All of our new, big-name signings are playing well. It's the guys who have been stinking it up for years who are dragging us down.

I saw another post somewhere which I totally agreed with. If you signed the players we signed to just about any other team, you are competing for a premiership that year, Yet here we are battling it out for another spoon.

Yep. Our big name signings have been pretty good to great. I thought Bateman was a high risk signing. Maybe he was but that guy is killing it.

IP is fine. He is looking frustrated but maybe that is a good thing.

The two worst offenders are Brooks and Doueihi. I can't consider Laurie in that group because he isn't on a good contract and performs better than those two.

 

[TCL]

1 to 7 need an upgrade

 

[Demps]

Our spine is the issue...

Brooks - he is so stale and lacks any competitive ability. He needs to be shown the door immediately

Douihei - suffering from the age old "I'm not as good as I think I am" syndrome. I could see him improving but this isn't the academy, we need players now. His weak hearted efforts over the past few games make me question he even wants to be a professional rugby league player.

Laurie - effort is there I guess but he's a flyweight without and footballing smarts. He has some speed and that's about it for him. He'd probably look like a weapon in local comp stuff but he isn't first grade standard and I don't think he ever will be...


Throw in the likes of the career long flop Talau, and David Too Cool Nofoaluma... that's where the issue lies.