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What do you want me to say? I keep watching your games in the hope something materializes other than another ulcer...

To be fair Kruise-Leeming wouldn't be much use to you. He's not as good as Api and his confidence levels are already low coming out of an equally dysfunctional Leeds. You can make a case that the Titans aren't much better. But Holbrook seems like he has a good relationship with his players. The...

When Kikau is bearing down on you at a hundred knots an IQ is a definite disadvantage...

James Tedesco channeling Billy Slater, Minichiello and Garry Jack cumulatively couldn't string three good games together for the Tigers.

Staines is a finisher. And a pretty good one. But I aint seen any evidence that he's a footballer. And certainly none to say he's a fullback - which is arguably the most or joint-most important position on the pitch. I mean, the rip against Herbie Farnworth is he wants to play fullback but he...

Friend, you got forty six points put on you. It could easily have been seventy and not because of any "cracking defensive efforts" but rather Brisbane over-enthusiasm and ... well ... record instances of cramp brought about by attacking exhaustion ...

If you are dropping players on defensive efforts you're dropping pretty much the entire team after that performance. As for discussions about who is and who isn't an "NRL standard fullback" .... I just saw the Knights come within a hair of beating Manly with a fullback who didn't realise he was...

Sure. But Leeds is a very complicated club. They put the capital "D" in Dysfunction. Not sure Smith understood what he was getting into when he took the job. Suffice to say the team's form has collapsed pretty much concurrently with K-L relationship with the club.

Whoever they choose at FB they need to make a commitment and run with it. You can't keep changing your fullback every three or four games in the modern game without courting calamity. Is AD the best option? We can debate that. But he would be a GOOD ENOUGH option in a non-dysfunctional team.

The thing which amazes me is with the size of the in-goal area at Brisbane it seems harder to not force additional sets than miss them. You literally need to kick the ball a degree of longitude for it to go out of the back!

Good player. Wasn't Rohan Smith coaching around that area before he came to SL? If so I'm guessing he put a good word in with Holbrook.

"Did his job"???? He was the best player on the park. I mean, Dom Young played an absolute blinder. But Hastings ran that game like Eisenhower at Normandy. In his position and with his role speed of thought trumps speed of movement all day, every day. Did he blow a few kicks (like Cherry-Evans?)...

I watched the Manly game. Hastings was OUTSTANDING. Tore them to pieces. At one point in the second half (just before Manly scored their two late tries) he looked like he was really enjoying himself. Crazy decision to get rid of the guy. Is he a pain in the ass? Sure. But I aint paying him to be...

I don't understand the Staines signing. He looked a useful finisher at Penrith. But it's not like he's a Dom Young - the kind of player who at the very least will score a boatload of tries over the next five years and might even turn out to be handy in other positions. O'Brien sure looked like...

You couldn't get Haas with the stone tablets he brought down from the Mount.

Brooks is now an abused puppy. His confidence is shot to pieces. And he and his teammates know he's done. So why would ANYONE blame him for the performance they turned in against the Broncos? The time to get animated about Brooks was three or four years ago! To bash him now when he hasn't even...

Blaming your fullback and your scrum half for bad decisions is the kind of thing a coach can justifiably do when you are getting beat by ten points. But when your opponent is one score away from a half-century - and guys like Farnworth and Staggs were getting in each others way to queue up to...

Or it could be Ian Millward...

No. That just doesn't wash. We can argue as much as we like about whether Jackson Hastings deserved to be canned by the Tigers (I think it was a bad decision - but that's just me). But regardless of my feelings - a halfback partnership of Hastings & Tyson Gamble isn't going to win any titles...

Well, yes. Ownership is the issue. A far, far bigger issue than Sheens, Brooks and whoever else below. With the right owners setting performance criteria it should be possible for even Brooks to play a hell of a lot better than he is. You'd think at some point the NRL leadership would say -...