Change our DNA or embrace who we are?
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MacDougall
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@stryker said:
Lol okay Bill.
jirskyr
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An interesting proposition. But reality is fans hate losing, no matter how flashy or amazing the attack can be. And flashy football is rarely winning football.
Don't see it changing DNA as such.
I see it - at the moment - making do with what we have, and with what we have, we are doing the best we can.
What we need is more money to buy the players that fill the gaps we have. The DNA is there for attack, we need someone else's DNA for defence. We started this process with Elijah Taylor, we need to add a few more so we stop leaking points.
We can score tries against the best - evidenced by yesterdays game but it is not always enough if you let too many in. 10-15 maybe, 26 can be too much of a stretch.
Until we have money to buy creditable first grade talent, rather than fringe talent we will not take that next step. The fringees are doing their best, I am not blaming them but we need two or three "good ones" to complete the Tigers DNA puzzle.
Good post and good discussion here - as it should be. Well done.
I see it - at the moment - making do with what we have, and with what we have, we are doing the best we can.
What we need is more money to buy the players that fill the gaps we have. The DNA is there for attack, we need someone else's DNA for defence. We started this process with Elijah Taylor, we need to add a few more so we stop leaking points.
We can score tries against the best - evidenced by yesterdays game but it is not always enough if you let too many in. 10-15 maybe, 26 can be too much of a stretch.
Until we have money to buy creditable first grade talent, rather than fringe talent we will not take that next step. The fringees are doing their best, I am not blaming them but we need two or three "good ones" to complete the Tigers DNA puzzle.
Good post and good discussion here - as it should be. Well done.
Still can't understand why being a poor/rich club has anything to do with the salary cap i.e. the scope of talent we're able to sign? To be an entity in the NRL, all clubs would surely need the funds to fall in line with the competition wide salary cap? The cap is the same amount of money for each club is it not?
Not sure I really believe our inability to provide good TPAs exists either, with people like Harry around the club. It just comes down to cap management, which hasn't been good in the past. But over the coming years I see no reason that we wouldn't be able to sign talented players? With our developing spine I doubt we'd need to anyway..
Not sure I really believe our inability to provide good TPAs exists either, with people like Harry around the club. It just comes down to cap management, which hasn't been good in the past. But over the coming years I see no reason that we wouldn't be able to sign talented players? With our developing spine I doubt we'd need to anyway..
Joel Helmes
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If we're truly trying to change our DNA and our culture why isn't Michael Chee-Kam playing centre instead of Naiqama? That would be the first change I'd make if I was trying to plug defensive gaps while not entirely nullifying our attack.
Agree 100%
Agree 100%
Masterton
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Personally, I think we're pretty close to getting the balance right in attack. At our best we still attacked, sometimes stupidly. But it's easier to defend errors when you have Ellis, Fults and Gibbs leading the defence.
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