Canterbury Cup Team Announcement: Round 17

@fred
Thought we were totally outplayed.

Wenty were bigger and faster than us. Most of their tries were incredibly soft. Player running the ball, 3 tacklers and still having an arm free to casually put the ball down kind of stuff.

Talau was our best. Scored one and set up another, was always hard to get to ground and towards the end was flicking the ball a lot and creating half chances.

Jack Miller did do some amazing things. To show the pace and heart to chase down Bevan French on a length of the field run, tackle him into touch, in the 70th minute when your team's down by a few tries is a great effort for a back rower. He also came up with a good strip to get us the ball back with 20 to go, but he then tried a ridiculous offload 5m out in front of the posts on the second tackle and lost the ball. Still a lot of bad errors and brainsnaps in his game, and he's not as young as our dev boys but he has potential and could be a late bloomer.

Bradley didn't get much opportunity. Having Heleta and Burey inside him didn't help. The ball never came his way so was only involved making metres out of our own end.

Madden's kicking game was generally good, made Wenty work it off the line by finding the grass and kicking it to the corners (something we never, ever do in NRL for some reason). He also set up Burey with a great little chip over the top to score under the posts in the last minute. There were still many kicks straight to the fullback but when you're kicking under pressure 35m out from your own line that's going to happen.

Our attack did look pretty poor for most of the game though. When we had the ball down their end we would go from side to side, no decoys or people running angles. Again with all the chopping and changing in the side it's not surprising there's no fluidity out there.

Smith was again solid under the high ball, taking in everything that comes his way, but still needs to try and get involved in attack more. The team's attack was poor, but if he was sniffing around the ruck a bit more maybe he could have got an offload etc.
 
@balmain-boy Thank you, hoping The young boys come good aswell as Cini and Seyfarth because we do need to inject some youth and talent. Do you think Talau will come good in the centres or he will be better suited to a five-eigth or even a lock role possibly. He is a big boy, could but on some size.
 
@balmain-boy said in [Canterbury Cup Team Announcement: Round 17](/post/1034483) said:
@fred
Thought we were totally outplayed.

Wenty were bigger and faster than us. Most of their tries were incredibly soft. Player running the ball, 3 tacklers and still having an arm free to casually put the ball down kind of stuff.

Talau was our best. Scored one and set up another, was always hard to get to ground and towards the end was flicking the ball a lot and creating half chances.

Jack Miller did do some amazing things. To show the pace and heart to chase down Bevan French on a length of the field run, tackle him into touch, in the 70th minute when your team's down by a few tries is a great effort for a back rower. He also came up with a good strip to get us the ball back with 20 to go, but he then tried a ridiculous offload 5m out in front of the posts on the second tackle and lost the ball. Still a lot of bad errors and brainsnaps in his game, and he's not as young as our dev boys but he has potential and could be a late bloomer.

Bradley didn't get much opportunity. Having Heleta and Burey inside him didn't help. The ball never came his way so was only involved making metres out of our own end.

Madden's kicking game was generally good, made Wenty work it off the line by finding the grass and kicking it to the corners (something we never, ever do in NRL for some reason). He also set up Burey with a great little chip over the top to score under the posts in the last minute. There were still many kicks straight to the fullback but when you're kicking under pressure 35m out from your own line that's going to happen.
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**> Our attack did look pretty poor for most of the game though. When we had the ball down their end we would go from side to side, no decoys or people running angles. Again with all the chopping and changing in the side it's not surprising there's no fluidity out there.**

Smith was again solid under the high ball, taking in everything that comes his way, but still needs to try and get involved in attack more. The team's attack was poor, but if he was sniffing around the ruck a bit more maybe he could have got an offload etc.

That is our clubs attacking structure, 1st grade do it as well.
 
@balmain-boy said in [Canterbury Cup Team Announcement: Round 17](/post/1034483) said:
@fred
Thought we were totally outplayed.

Wenty were bigger and faster than us. Most of their tries were incredibly soft. Player running the ball, 3 tacklers and still having an arm free to casually put the ball down kind of stuff.

Talau was our best. Scored one and set up another, was always hard to get to ground and towards the end was flicking the ball a lot and creating half chances.

Jack Miller did do some amazing things. To show the pace and heart to chase down Bevan French on a length of the field run, tackle him into touch, in the 70th minute when your team's down by a few tries is a great effort for a back rower. He also came up with a good strip to get us the ball back with 20 to go, but he then tried a ridiculous offload 5m out in front of the posts on the second tackle and lost the ball. Still a lot of bad errors and brainsnaps in his game, and he's not as young as our dev boys but he has potential and could be a late bloomer.

Bradley didn't get much opportunity. Having Heleta and Burey inside him didn't help. The ball never came his way so was only involved making metres out of our own end.

Madden's kicking game was generally good, made Wenty work it off the line by finding the grass and kicking it to the corners (something we never, ever do in NRL for some reason). He also set up Burey with a great little chip over the top to score under the posts in the last minute. There were still many kicks straight to the fullback but when you're kicking under pressure 35m out from your own line that's going to happen.

Our attack did look pretty poor for most of the game though. When we had the ball down their end we would go from side to side, no decoys or people running angles. Again with all the chopping and changing in the side it's not surprising there's no fluidity out there.

Smith was again solid under the high ball, taking in everything that comes his way, but still needs to try and get involved in attack more. The team's attack was poor, but if he was sniffing around the ruck a bit more maybe he could have got an offload etc.
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I think youve highlighted the real issue we are facing. Its very hard to rate these players given the poor depth of the squad. I can only hope Maguire and his mates can spot a guy who deserves a shot.
 
G'day @Harvey: maybe, just maybe the reason We have nothing more than side to side movement is the players are just too friggin dumb to learn any more than 1 planned move per week, cheers.
 
@balmain-boy said in [Canterbury Cup Team Announcement: Round 17](/post/1034483) said:
@fred
Thought we were totally outplayed.

Wenty were bigger and faster than us. Most of their tries were incredibly soft. Player running the ball, 3 tacklers and still having an arm free to casually put the ball down kind of stuff.

Talau was our best. Scored one and set up another, was always hard to get to ground and towards the end was flicking the ball a lot and creating half chances.

Jack Miller did do some amazing things. To show the pace and heart to chase down Bevan French on a length of the field run, tackle him into touch, in the 70th minute when your team's down by a few tries is a great effort for a back rower. He also came up with a good strip to get us the ball back with 20 to go, but he then tried a ridiculous offload 5m out in front of the posts on the second tackle and lost the ball. Still a lot of bad errors and brainsnaps in his game, and he's not as young as our dev boys but he has potential and could be a late bloomer.

Bradley didn't get much opportunity. Having Heleta and Burey inside him didn't help. The ball never came his way so was only involved making metres out of our own end.

Madden's kicking game was generally good, made Wenty work it off the line by finding the grass and kicking it to the corners (something we never, ever do in NRL for some reason). He also set up Burey with a great little chip over the top to score under the posts in the last minute. There were still many kicks straight to the fullback but when you're kicking under pressure 35m out from your own line that's going to happen.

Our attack did look pretty poor for most of the game though. When we had the ball down their end we would go from side to side, no decoys or people running angles. Again with all the chopping and changing in the side it's not surprising there's no fluidity out there.

Smith was again solid under the high ball, taking in everything that comes his way, but still needs to try and get involved in attack more. The team's attack was poor, but if he was sniffing around the ruck a bit more maybe he could have got an offload etc.
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I must’ve watched a different game. The halves were poor for 70 minutes especially their short kicks when it needed to be pumped down field instead of the oppositions back 3 getting the ball 30m out, miss kicking cross field kicks 🤯. If they used the fullback sweeping out the back and creating an overlap the wingers would’ve got the ball like what happened with Reynolds and Gamble.
Agree Talau looked good in attack and is only getting better especially since his injury and I noticed he didn’t cramp up like he was 👍🏼
Bradley pretty much got belted every time he took a hit up. I think they’ve worked out he’s a bit too upright when hitting the line. He’ll move up soon
Heleta made some errors but is a nugget
Miller is a find and I can’t understand why he isn’t on Bilaals wing if they don’t give him more minutes
If the coach doesn’t improve the attack they won’t be playing finals
And BB it’s good reading your weekly reviews but this time I had to slightly disagree 😉
 
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