Recent content by TheEnz

Penrith players all stay within their lanes and execute close to perfection, they tend to hit and stick in first contact so at most they have 3 in a tackle, 2 put in an effort an 1 will slow the play the ball. We miss tackles and often have 4-5 players making an effort to get a player held. It...

I think its the additional energy they are burning trying to cover for the loss of players. When i played we would burn less energy when we were playing beside our regular teammates as you were not always overcompensating to cover the uncertainty you had with the bloke beside you in defense, and...

I think Schuster needs the season in KOE and a pre season with the first grade team before we contemplate a role for him in the starting side. Toupou was playing first grade for the roosters a few weeks ago so he may be a chance with injuries this year.

AD is the 7 and if he calls for the ball he should get it, looked to me like he was calling for it way too often. He has been immense for us when he has played this yr but he does have a hero complex. Wants to win so bad that he thinks he is the only one that can do it.

We are regularly trash without him in the team, just watch some of the tackles he makes on bigger players in our red zone, its crazy. He may have the odd bad game as most do, however on balance he is the best player we have had over the last 3 years by a country mile. I would agree that he was...

Do any of our players ever get into open space to gauge their speed?...at least when Galvin was here he would play that short side move on the 4th when the wingers were back and we would isolate the centre and then pass back inside after the break to often score a try. We rarely do that anymore...

Upside there is AD is not on 6 or 7 money...if we do see a future with Latu and Andrews, AD could easily get more money elsewhere if he is still playing decent footy. You may even find that he asks for a release because he knows he can get more money elsewhere and the writing is on the wall at...

need halves cover on the extended bench with AD carrying that injury.

Latu will end up at 7 and Andrews at 6. People saying Benji has destroyed him must be kidding, he dropped down to KOE and did not miss a beat. I actually think playing other positions around the middle is not a bad thing for his development, especially for a guy like him that seems to enjoy the...

not really, for me the xfactor is the player that can provide the Line Break or make the line break, getting clear ball and a staggered defensive line where every tackle was almost a hail mary attempt and every player has just busted a gut for 75mins in the wet is not xfactor for me. I'm not...

To be fair if Makasini had scored that try where Ponga ran him down and then held him down it would have been akin to the one they scored at the end. I don't think they were much better than us in attack and we were the better team overall..they just converted the single moment that we couldn't...

I don't think its team selections, i think he is picking the best he can with the limited player pool he has. What I have noticed is that as soon as we lose a player to injury in a game it absolutely destroys our bench rotation, he had the same issue last year and because of the large number of...

they did....and i was certain they would review it, however it looked like they confirmed it as a try very quickly. What i have noticed from our guys is that other than Turuva, they very rarely stay down to get a penalty or blow up at the refs when there is an infringement against them. I don't...

I will never judge Bellamy on his origin performances, it would have been very hard to coach against his own players, especially in an arena where the advantage is often more about passion and aggression than skillset. He was never going to tell NSW to go out there and bash Smith, Slater etc...

He was not the same player when he came back and probably should have just gone and got the surgery. Same for Makasini, he looks like he is nursing his shoulder and if so he should go and get it sorted.