Recent content by orange&black

Agreed My point is that the success of a coach depends heavily on the cattle he’s coaching.

I don’t expect Madge has changed his coaching style too much in these past years, so the results he has achieved since leaving us say more about our group of players and our club than they do about his coaching. So you can be an International team winning coach, a SOO winning coach, and an NRL...

Thought raiders attack looked very pedestrian all one out and crash plays. Thought they could muscle their way to victory but Sharks defense was solid. Hardly ever tested sharks at all with any ball movement.

Lots of posters suggesting we have a good enough team to have made finals and that Benji was the main problem. If you want to rate our squad against the other 16 teams, an interesting exercise is to rate each player of our top 17 by position against every other player in the NRL. That is how...

One pleasing thing from today’s game was seeing Royce fired up and having a go. Shame he can’t seem to build on that effort. We look bog average against any team with grunt or speed - seems to be two key winning ingredients that we sorely lack.

Melbourne game was an outlier and hurt our For and Against. We were unable to win a few games that we could or should have, which was disappointing. We were definitely a better side this season than the past 4-5 years but we lacked consistency snd sustained effort. Our D is still weak and...

I think you’re right with this - certainly against the Cows and again tonight. What I saw was one team wanting to win more than the other. They ran harder and tackled harder than we did. Their forwards were much tougher and stronger and when they got a sniff they were too fast for us. AJ...

So we’d be paying maybe 550k for 2026 and he has an option to move on for 2027 if he gets an offer he likes. One good thing about that deal is he’s probably highly motivated to get that offer so he’s playing hard for us. Is one season enough though.

Moale goes ok from what Ive seen of him. Has reasonable speed and mobility and an offload. Wonder what his price tag would be - anyone know? I’d love to see us find 2 middles. He could be one of them if Benji thinks he’ll bring the right attitude to the group. I only want “competitors” - for me...

We played with effort and in the most part defended aggressively and well. Dropped off in the last 10 mins where we stopped slowing them down and didn’t get up off the ground etc allowing them way too much momentum. Again a few too many errors that we struggled to defend cost us. All season i...

Tigers have shown up with intensity and effort. A couple of mistakes have gifted raiders trys but we are in the game. In seasons past we would have been out a similar game already and that’s the difference this year.

Lack of connection and communication after we took that 12 point lead - this is an on field leadership issue. The Cows were smart enough and good enough to take advantage of some obvious weaker players on the field during that period. When we needed to step up our D and game management as a...

When you look at our bench this week you get an understanding of where our roster sits. Our starting 13 aside, we have absolutely nothing of NRL standard from 14 -30 (apart from AD injury and Seyfarth suspension). As much as we all want results, its a tough ask to travel to Canberra and beat...

Feeling very flat and disappointed tonight. Was on the hill with my whole family and some friends, and the atmosphere was awesome for much of the game. At the point we were up by 12 everyone was so excited, then to lose the way we did was such a let down. Still not quite sure how we can lose...

I would give up 10-15 of his minutes for a few runs that break tackles or get across the advantage line. For all his effort he somehow needs to have more impact on a game. Exactly why we need more from Pole, or a starting prop who actually has impact in attack.