I was under the impression that Furner was bought in to hone the defensive skills of the team,obviously its all falling on deaf ears...I havent played the game for 30 years,but put me out there and no matter how big the opposition is I will throw everything I can at him to take him down,thats the way I was taught...
Adam Doueihi #227
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He's sookin....
See it in his body language, his emotions (or lack thereof) , general demeanour.
Everything he was praised for last year such as his leadership qualities and competitiveness has been thrown into the trash.
It's a shame - he's on the chopping block for mine and should be told to find a new club.... (but we signed him for 2024 🤦🏻)
At least the other two pretenders, Brooks and Laurie, don't have deals after this year and shouldn't be offered one either.
He was dawdling across field for a lot of the tries. Haas said himself, at half time when interviewed, that he went from dummy half when he saw Doueihi. We should not be surprised as we all saw this when he was fullback before. He will not put his body on the line. He is slow and cumbersome and at times not interested. But lets just leave him there and pretend he can do the job. Thank God I don't comment on performances on game day.
liltiger
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This, started when we refused to trade him with Melbourne.
Just another in a long list of players that thinks he'd be winning premierships if he wasn't playing for the Tigers....
IF he were at the Storm - He wouldn't have made it through pre-season.....
He'd be Marion Seve 7-8 game a year.
Tiger_Fanatic3
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Doohey was gassed after almost 10mins into the game
Match fitness is just not there
Match fitness is just not there
wet tiger coloured bird
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spec saver have both
Had as many good games as very poor ones last year man - Maybe less....
When he finally accepts and embraces his reality - the penny will hopefully drop.
I just hope it's not too late for him....
Interesting to hear Billy Slater say he'd play him at Lock...
I can't remember the 3 things Cronk said last night he needs to improve - But they weren't great.
His spot is somewhere in the backrow for mine,
But he needs to put in some effort in defence - Or he's off to the Super League....
wet tiger coloured bird
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but you can have them for free wayne
If he stepped up in defence, he could play a role very similar to Yeo.
Halbrowne61
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I actually think that Wayne would take all three.
And he would probably improve them no end.
Pascoes_barber
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He wouldn't even break stride walking away.
jirskyr
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I was really hopeful that Doueihi could make a go of fullback, and he had a really good run there with Souths the year before he joined us, but it is proven that he's way off the pace and the Broncos match was a disaster.
Not that he cannot improve his fitness, but Broncos were having a field day dragging us side-to-side then grubbering in-behind where the fullback was 1 km off the pace. This is precisely where a King Gutho proves his dogged worth.
AD's carries are good but he was clearly so tired on Saturday, it dented his attack.
We obviously have an issue fort he position because Laurie has also shown the past 1+ seasons to not have a good feel for fullback positioning, and his attack is pretty mediocre. His debut season he got by with a real tenacious approach to playing, but since he broke his leg, I think that's gone. Some people say it's fear, I don't think that's true, I just think he's lost his edge and that is a key component of being a fullback.
E.g. Latrell 2023 has lost some of his edge and Rabbits are struggling because of it - 2 wins 3 losses, and 1 of those wins was golden point FG. Coach is publicly calling for Latrell to be more involved, but teams are finding a lot of success kicking away from him and making him get tired.
As others have said, that killer edge and knack of always turning up where the ball is - those are the key components of the modern fullback. If your fullback is always out of position, the current level of tactical kicking is far too good for teams to absorb all that defensive pressure but not have a fullback covering the short kicks on the line.
What was also a [This word has been automatically removed] last Saturday is Broncos were also putting in shitty short kicks but still getting a result - we just couldn't take a trick. They were scoring off good kicks and getting flukey 6-agains from rubbish kicks. Very tough night for any fullback, let alone one who really hasn't found his form or his fitness this year.
It does seem like AD is really only going to be a centre or perhaps a lock if he trained for the role, but his shoulder contact isn't great for those positions either. He's sort of at a crossroads of being a potentially very effective attacker, with some very significant deficits that get exposed over 80 mins.
Not that he cannot improve his fitness, but Broncos were having a field day dragging us side-to-side then grubbering in-behind where the fullback was 1 km off the pace. This is precisely where a King Gutho proves his dogged worth.
AD's carries are good but he was clearly so tired on Saturday, it dented his attack.
We obviously have an issue fort he position because Laurie has also shown the past 1+ seasons to not have a good feel for fullback positioning, and his attack is pretty mediocre. His debut season he got by with a real tenacious approach to playing, but since he broke his leg, I think that's gone. Some people say it's fear, I don't think that's true, I just think he's lost his edge and that is a key component of being a fullback.
E.g. Latrell 2023 has lost some of his edge and Rabbits are struggling because of it - 2 wins 3 losses, and 1 of those wins was golden point FG. Coach is publicly calling for Latrell to be more involved, but teams are finding a lot of success kicking away from him and making him get tired.
As others have said, that killer edge and knack of always turning up where the ball is - those are the key components of the modern fullback. If your fullback is always out of position, the current level of tactical kicking is far too good for teams to absorb all that defensive pressure but not have a fullback covering the short kicks on the line.
What was also a [This word has been automatically removed] last Saturday is Broncos were also putting in shitty short kicks but still getting a result - we just couldn't take a trick. They were scoring off good kicks and getting flukey 6-agains from rubbish kicks. Very tough night for any fullback, let alone one who really hasn't found his form or his fitness this year.
It does seem like AD is really only going to be a centre or perhaps a lock if he trained for the role, but his shoulder contact isn't great for those positions either. He's sort of at a crossroads of being a potentially very effective attacker, with some very significant deficits that get exposed over 80 mins.
Buttface
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He needs to leave the Wests Tigers immediately, asap, pronto, now please 🙏.
Laurie clearly out of favour. Ran 187 metres against Newcastle more than any other player in the game and had a real crack when others didn't yet seems to have taken the fall for the incompetents that keep getting selected. If Douhie was going better than him fair enough. We are already struggling with depth and if we pass on another player without an equal replacement then don't expect any improvement in the squad.
Why not
If Sheens don't like you find another club seems to be his motto.
Tiger-ferret
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Just saw the article about him liking cobbos try on insta…add that to the talks with Gus/dogs recently i think there’s definitely smoke.
