I was at Suncorp yesterday what stood out to me was that we were completely outclassed physically. Our players were unable to poke their head through the line aside from 2 or 3 sets right at the end of each half. Manly’s back three constantly won contact and found their front on kick returns...
I am not trying to put a young player down. I have been really impressed by Tavana this season.
But this is the worst performance I have ever seen by a winger. I think it is a mental resilience problem, has spiralled from the very fist dropped ball.
Can you guys just get each others number and have it out already? This is the signing and suggestions thread, it is so tiresome logging in and reading you two having a lovers tiff for 5 pages. We get it you disagree and you are both super clever. Please give the the forum a rest from your egos.
I agree with the sentiments of many on here that it does diminish the value of a lot of the “my team” rhetoric that Luai had been stating since he got here. It is a little disappointing that the playing group may not quite be as close as advertised.
However, from a purely team list perspective...
His biggest problem is that he does not know how to beat a player without physical dominance. He has grown up his whole life being the most impressive athlete on the field and has become reliant on winning initial contact. He has been physically matched or beaten consistently this season and he...
Doueihi's defence is just putrid.
There was no reason to be that far in, has his shoulders turned inwards which is inexcusable in U/13s and then isn't athletic enough to recover.
Garbage decisions, garbage technique and poor athleticism.
I would hook players from my school boy team for that.
"Salary Cap Cheats"........???
Winning covers up everything, if we were winning no one would care.
I love this from Richo. From my perspective Bateman is hoping he can get his remaining salary gift wrapped in a release clause. I love Richo publicly telling him he will need to earn it. Allowing...
The shear amount of Luke Brooks emotion I have felt over the last decade has obviously fried my brain to the point that my bias overwhelms me when I watch him play.
Because I genuinely think he was average to poor on the weekend and still can't understand why everyone was raving about him. I...
I played a lot of schoolboy rugby with Jared in Queensland. I am 6ft 2 (188cm) and he was always noticeably taller than me plus he was 105kg and looked like he had been cut out of clay by grade 12. He was the definition of an enormous human.
Haven't seen him in person in over 10 years but...
I am very upset by people who call themselves die hard fans that don’t contribute to the club. I think it’s great that the CEO pointed out that despite a huge market share we actually have very few fans that financially contribute to the club. Getting tickets, paying for Kayo/foxtel and buying...
The answer is bad contracts. A flaw in the salary cap is that teams have to spend 95% of their cap every year. So even if we have below average first graders in the squad, third party contracts aside, they are being paid at a minimum 95% of what squads like the Roosters, Penrith, Cronulla are...
I live in Brisbane watch a lot of Q-Cup due to family members being heavily involved in Norths up here.
Solmona Fataape had a real breakout year last year. Quick enough to play on the wing but moved to the centres. By the end of the year he was the form centre in the league. Pretty sure he won...
Couldn't agree more. I think those 5 you named would all walk into our side.
In the same period who have we signed? Sezer, Fainu Brothers and Sullivan I guess are the new additions to our squad.
Bulldogs are in a very comparable position in terms of rebuilding and just seem to be doing a...