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Stef has been brilliant this year. No doubt gone up quite a few pegs. I thought he wasn't near origin the past few years but he now should be there and will be a really good off the bench impact prop in that arena. Well done to him and Benji for the significant lift in his game. As for whether...

We were terrible today. Errors, penalties when we started to look good, bud Sullivan. The thing that really stood out to me though was the way their backs dominated our forwards in getting quick play the balls. Lomax in particular was driving forward against 2-3 forwards and getting quick play...

I get and like that Benji lets his halves play, but Bud's focus this week should be setting up his backrowers and centres and stop being so frantic. He's too desperate in attack. I wish he played within himself a bit and was more judicious with his excellent inside step.

I like when he's fighting in tackles for quick play the balls and when he's up in people's faces with good line speed. He's intense and wears people down when he plays like that. He doesn't need the extra stuff of stupid offloads and purposeless sideways running and penalties. I wasn't for him...

With Galvin he slows the play, straightens the attack and has excellent awareness and passing. With Sullivan it's absolutely frantic and it looks like an all or nothing play every time. Bateman also stunk it up. Papalii gets gassed in games, the good run by Marshall has been on in the 2nd...

Luciano is on the Joey leuilua diet. He's enormous.

There we have it... Sloan knocks a kick on, Flanagan in front of him blatantly offside picks the ball up after trying to leave it because he knew he was offside but had to pick it up to avoid Newcastle playing on. Is it a penalty based on WTs decision last week? No. Love the consistency.

If we were looking for a destination to send Bud you'd think Gus would be available every day of the week to take that call at the Dogs. Bud, to me, seems like a perfect fit at the Bulldogs, they need that livewire exciting sort of player in the halves. They'd probably need to offload a player...

Nothing against Sullivan, but with fainu, Galvin and Luai in our squad next year there's just no room for his contract. If we can get rid of him for nothing I'd take that.

Yeah, fair comments about Sezer. The poor kicks were the first thing Sezer mentioned in post game interview when asked about the winning field goal. Really like that desire to be accountable. I also think despite those poor kicks he was very good for us throughout the game. Level headed and...

Great win off the back of gritty play. I know we won by a lot last week, but the Sharks had some stupid plays with kicks out on the full and some relieving penalties. It just felt like the ball fell for us last week. Feel like we got very little this week and our defense was great. Definitely...

He chopped sivo down almost every time. Sivo usually has a field day with us. Staines is unspectacular but he's a very good defensive winger. I think the criticism of him here has been too harsh. When was the last time we had a good defensive winger?

I'm surprised Penrith look so good despite a weakened side. That forward pack was average, Huth is still a twinkle toed 5 metre eater, despite being a consistent defender, and Garner is still a weak defender, despite the occasional decent hit, yet they were absolutely dominant against one of the...

I rate Leichhardt but there would be very little benefit to the public to justify spending money on it. Plenty of smaller, similar sized and larger stadiums in the area, why spend on Leichhardt? Of all those stadiums they also already chose Parramatta and SFS to upgrade, I don't think they could...

Every time I've been down there for a game we've been soundly beaten so you hear the blare of that song again and again. I go home miserable while singing "we're gonna hit ya, hit ya, hit ya, and you'll see green'. It's traumatic whenever I hear it.

The other major factor is to not put the Brooks deal in isolation. Presumably both clubs didn't have funds for both the Fainu brothers and Brooks, so there was a bit of an exchange there. When you consider they paid Brooks 4 years and we got the Fainu brothers instead for lower contracts for 4...

Homebush location could work. That stadium though will not create fans and a desire to go to matches. Anything but that. I hate that stadium for local games.

I went there as a boy and loved the atmosphere, hooked for life on rugby league. I've never cared a damn about the facilities. People are so sensitive to everything being generic these days. I take my kids to the game there and they love it. They're girls and all their mates are into AFL...

You may be right. I just saw him really struggling off the ball. Things like not getting back in the defensive line, last player back when bringing it out from our line, not running with players. Maybe I'm being harsh, like I said, you don't see the details of the game so well. There was a...

View from behind the posts. It's not the strategic view point but really good to see physicality: Pole went all game non stop and looked comfortable. He is special. Papalii was absolutely gassed after 4 minutes in the second half. Hopeless getting back and crouched over a lot. He needs to get...