Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

king_sirro said:
Can you see the difference here? Also, where does Bennet take a break, overseas or a quiet road trip for a few days?
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Bennett does what he wants. He is all over the place. He doesn’t go to Fiji because he doesn’t have young kids. What difference? The fact that we suck and the media worked out Benji had 6 nights instead of 4 in a place suited to young kids? Don’t get it. Whether he was in Brisbane or Hamilton Island, doesn’t matter. Media beat up. And we love it here.
 
Robbo to issue a contract on Nate’s head tonight.

No other way through.

A bloodbath starring the roosters and Penrith may help take the edge off the ongoing pain and horror of spoon bowl.
 
Year_of_the_Tiger said:
Bennett does what he wants. He is all over the place. He doesn’t go to Fiji because he doesn’t have young kids. What difference? The fact that we suck and the media worked out Benji had 6 nights instead of 4 in a place suited to young kids? Don’t get it. Whether he was in Brisbane or Hamilton Island, doesn’t matter. Media beat up. And we love it here.
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If you see no difference between Wayne Bennet taking a short local break mid year and Benji Marshall taking an overseas holiday mid year when running last then I don't know what to say. Agree to disagree
 
Now back Richos trip to England, did anyone see Bevan French play last weekend , the bloke is a freak , has all the skill and heaps of pace , yet Richo came back empty handed , we really need another class centre with pace
 
Tucker said:
Well firstly, no other coach was starring down the barrel of a potential third spoon in a row.
…and yes, without the players there he could have gotten tonnes of work done. Instead they all had a week off then returned and performed the same crappy way….a 40 point flogging to the Dragons.
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What gets me is early in the season after the cronulla win .they went downhill .they had a blueprint on how to win and win well
 
Benji had 5.5 months of the off season to get away.

It will be interesting to see if he jets out again next year at the same time as a kind of self justification exercise.

It’s still haunting him as it is.

Feeding his critics as it were.

Even if it had no actual adverse impact, we don’t quite know, we didn’t need another own goal.
 
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Lestronge said:
Nope . Betsy pretty much gave it away , in the BTR podcast . Said we weren’t strong enough , led to retreating defenders which led to poor play , like infinite penalties / sin bins , lazy defence etc .
Said they’d figured out to quantify effort areas , and that when the guys were hitting thier targets on the effort areas , we’re winning or putting in good performances .
If that’s not a shot across the bow , towards the high performance team , than I’m not here .
And he’s 💯 right . We looked too weak at times , and because of that we were getting tired out earlier than most teams . We couldn’t stay in the arm wrestle because we weren’t strong enough .
I also know I heard a player give an interview where they alluded to the fact that the reason we play soo expansive out of our end was because we didn’t have the thrust and power in the back 3 , so we had to manufacture ruck speed .
There’s that word again Power / strength . I think they got it wrong this year . That’s Peter Moussa and his team . South’s by the way , suffered from the same thing . They looked to be outmatched physically .
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Sorry, who is Betsy?
 
Lestronge said:
Wtf is going on today ? Is there something in the air ? Like I’m surrounded by people saying and doing the most mind boggling shit ! He got knived for a reason . Tiger town is exhibit A . The prosecution rests ! He tried hard , but I’ve never seen a group of more detached people than the players were when was delivering info .
You could say it was the culture that was created by the fedora and friends , yea sure probably … but that doesn’t change his inability to connect with playing group , Jackson Hastings not included …
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Previous management couldn’t identify character if it bit them on the anus. They signed a bunch of overpaid Prima Donnas who never wanted to win footy, they wanted to line theirs and their managers pockets.

We always passed over guys like Finucane and Bromwich etc. who win wherever the go. Standards setters. It could be years to fix the rot Pascoe and co created.

Good on Richo for calling it out.
 
king_sirro said:
It's not under 6's where you turn up at 5pm to run some kids around. The players being off was a great opportunity for Benji to get a lot of work done in regards to countless things.
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If I suggested to you that the staff did do some video sessions up until midnight and then back at it at 5am the next day would you believe me? Benji and Morris wasn’t and isn’t the problem. Both got through plenty during their “holiday”.
 
loklok said:
It's not just that .it's what happens leading into games,training,mindset ,everyone on the same page .it was changed defensive line etc
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It was early season before our starting side picked up injuries and we were fielding a high school team.
 
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