Outstanding if true.
He is a real man’s man who does not tolerate softness or bullshit.
I’m not sure if he’s more suited to defence or attack, but his presence will be felt that’s for sure and certain as he is not the type of person who will just sit back and accept mediocrity.
Some great recruitment in our NRLW space.
I don’t watch it near as closely as I do the men’s, but I watch enough to know that Rima Butler from the premiership winning Roosters team adds size and power running that our team has been lacking within the middle forwards and Jayne Millard from the...
I have answered your question that yes the top coaches quite obviously know what they are doing and rely on a top quality defence to win premierships.
The top coaches also have plenty of attacking quality to work with.
I’ve explained to you it’s a balance as you cannot be too lopsided either...
I’m telling you for the unteenth time that the roster we had for 2026 did not have the right amount of speed, tackle break ability or attacking flair to worry our opponents icoming out of our own half, particularly once we had a few injuries.
Onbviously Benji agrees that lack of speed and...
It’s quite obvious a decent team needs to be able to defend well.
What you are not wanting to understand is teams resilience to defend well generally only lasts so long if their attack is dull and boring and not converting strong defence into points.
Surely our back half of the 2026 season is...
Ok lett’s hope we run with your theory, don’t worry about speed or attacking ability, let’s just field a team of 17 good defenders every week and we will try win all our games 12-6.
Based on your theory Patrick Herbert should get selected ahead of Jake Averillo every week as he is a stonger...
Exactly the point.
At the moment our back centres are Herbert on the right and Saukuru on the left.
Saukuru could improve in leaps and bounds with his NRL experience at the back end of the 2026 season and Herbert is ok for the odd game of we have a real bad run with injuries, but surely we want...
Exactly.
Some of our supporters expect superstars as fringe players, obviously not understanding there is a Salary Cap to work with and not understanding the need for speed and line breaking ability within our team.
Only on the finals.
They got tj the finals on the back of their attack.
Does that sound familiar?
You will find the Wests Tigers 2095 Premiership winning team was similarly very attack minded and their defence clicked on the finals.
Defence is a mindset and when a team is highly confident good...
Show me a sample of the likes of Cody Walker, and Jahrome Hughes etc playing NRL before the age of 24.
Plenty of good quality players spend quite a bit of tine playing Reserve Grade stuck behind some very good players in their same position before they end up getting regular NRL opportunities...
You don’t get it, no defence will be good enough without speed and attacking ability that can stretch and worry the opposing defence.
It’s no longer the 1930’s where team full of grinders can consistently win games.
The best form of defence is attack, in case you haven’t noticed that’s the style...
Check your facts.
I am talking about his whole career, not just one injury riddled season.
What are you arguing about, are you happy with Patrick Herbert and Tino Tavana as our first players called up for our right sided outside backs?
Surely you want someone better who has the physical...