Let Webster go to. Not that I think he’ll be the next Bennett, but he’s done ok.
What great points!!
I don’t think it will be as grey as that if that’s where we end up on the ladder, We’ll have a good feel either way whether he can cut it or not.
I agree but also attitude is important and that speaks to the way it is coached.
Gardiner was the bigger loss for me B with Sheens experience he must have seen the potential in him, it almost seems like he let him go so that it wouldn't interfere with the progression of Benji to head coach the fairytale of the succession for Benji had a lot in euphoria, while that was happening Gardiner was let go. I hope Benji succeeds but Sheens get the old boys back together thinking could have deprived us of a better coach.
Your right B if you are prepared to move up quickly in a straight chain that frustrates the opposition, but team fitness has to be good enough to do it the whole match, strong voices on both sides of the field pushing the guys a must as well and don't forget if the line is broken the amount of defenders getting back to cover needs to be high again related to team fitness.
Remember scrambling well with Cleary. I'd give my left nut to be able to defend that well this season.
Yeah I do mate he had nowhere near as good a roster as we do now just proves if the team has the right mind set in defense it can be done look how good we all felt when this was happening what gets me is why did they give away the defensive strategies when it clearly worked.
I had the misfortune to sit behind him at the Gabba one long, hot afternoon.
Never forget the game against Brisbane in the 05 finals series, they made a Ton of offloads and even more line breaks but our scramble won us that game. Pretty sure it was Heinghington who scrambled and tackled his backside off.
Gardiner was a big loss, only led us for one game and had us playing well. The one I wish we kept who I think would have got the guys towing the line is Payton.
Spot on... And it's why I constantly bang on about limiting opposition post contact metres.... But the line speed has to be top notch to achieve this.
Again LT there were voices at the time wanting to throw Payton in at the deep end similar traits to Gardiner had reserve grade playing well needs to be rewarded not let them feel like they need to move to another club to progress.
Because it's not sustainable.... It's hectic panicky desperation style defending you usually see at the end of very close games... It's very taxing physically and I wasn't surprised we fell away a bit from about round seven that year
Probably because the squad was nowhere near as good as recent riff/storm roster.
They defend in a very controlled structured manner... As sparty mentioned, they also absorb pressure and just bide their time waiting to pounce
Between you and I, I hope the trials don’t go to well. Trial form does not necessarily indicate team form. And you are correct t about the first 6 games. And if I can add even. More so the last 6 games. I will give Benji 2025 to show what he can do with the team. We now have a team that can be competitive consistently not just 1 or 2 games a season. Anything below 9th is a failure and he maybe shown the door. And based on were we are now and what’s coming top 4 2026!!!
