Ain't happening.
Bulas our most well liked player by team mates and coaching staff.
He's playing injured so we ain't seeing anything close to first grade standard.
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Bulas our most well liked player by team mates and coaching staff.
He's playing injured so we ain't seeing anything close to first grade standard.
He is small, not very fast or elusive and for some reason not capable of contesting any attacking high balls.
The only thing he has going for him is his fearless hit ups from backfield, which is not enough when our 1-5 as a whole lacks attacking flair.
If everyone played with his heart we’d be in contention.
Probably the best of a bad bunch, but we need to surround him with size, speed and attacking flair.
Why he never contests attacking high balls is strange to put it nicely?
Agree.
It's very lacking and has been for a long time.
Without Taylan May, it's incredibly weak.
Next year hopefully better.
1. Bula
2. Turuva
3. Taylan
4. Averillo
5. Makasini
Depth needing some improvement
Patrick Herbert
Tino Tavana
We didn’t start the season with a halfback for starters.
Tiger-ferret
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Early in the season this was actually happening for us. A big reason we were successful. They are now coasting along for mad Monday with no belief.
That starting 1-5 looks ok when all are playing close to their best.
The back up you have noted is not even close to being good enough to still allow us to be competitive when we have any of the starting back 5 out of form or injured.
IF we had a couple of genuine stars amongst our 1-5 we could get away with those back up players you have noted, but because we do not have any genuine stars amongst them, we cannot afford to have lesser players as our immediate backup.
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Also agree
We don't have the cattle.
Depth wise we have nothing.
We need to make some moves.
Very well described KS ...i see this a lot and comparing to other teams i see our deficiencies here, was hard for me to put into words but ... you nailed it...
Many other situations are similar where cartoon question marks.should be superimposed over players heads on the screen when they look at each other with blank "wth" expressions
Hard to judge the 1-5 when you come out with that sort of energy and application. Bula, not getting to that 40/20 is symptomatic of the mindset of the group. When morale is down it’s left up to individual efforts and the team are not working as one. Skelton looked asleep leading to two tries. Morale even further shot.
Judge our backs when our forwards and halves do their job.
Taylan May, KPP & Royce Hunt.
Amongst our best performers this year - currently injured.
Jahream, Starford, Apisai, AD, Samuela - all seem to be playing through injury.
And then Luai decides to de-reail the season with his look @ me approach.
This is what happens.
Amongst our best performers this year - currently injured.
Jahream, Starford, Apisai, AD, Samuela - all seem to be playing through injury.
And then Luai decides to de-reail the season with his look @ me approach.
This is what happens.
I’m convinced that quality depth to challenge the likes of Turuva, Makasini, Bula and Averillo for their starting positions if they are not switched on and playing close to the best of their ability is required.
As it stands they could be playing at 50% of their abilities in 2027 and still be better than the back up options currently on our roster, so what is going to keep them on their toes?
See my post above. We got bashed in the forwards and our halves were outplayed comprehensively. Not a day to judge the backline, although Skelton had a Barry.
Samuela would be on every clubs radar. It doesn't matter who he decides to sign with if it's not us - it's the same old same old question why we can't quietly retain players we want and have to pay overs with lengthy negotiations that result in player distractions and poor form.
Is it any wonder that coaches fail at this club - it doesn't go unnoticed that the last two coaches both premiership winners at the next clubs that they went to.
Is it any wonder that coaches fail at this club - it doesn't go unnoticed that the last two coaches both premiership winners at the next clubs that they went to.
Saw what we were capable of @ full strength... without Luai.
Need to get the players back on the park.
Add a few more.
And really strengthen our cup team to provide ready made replacement, depth wise, when these issues occur.
Latu, is the one.
Gazman
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Well said and I am a big fan but I always had my doubts whether this ever made him likely to become a good coach.
Fainus asked Benji to give Josh Schuuster a chance.
Think about that....
Think about that....
I have been disgusted in how soft Terrell has been, particularly in the opening 20mins for the past 2 weeks.
Benji starting young Haywood in a game he knew there was going to be plenty of heat in the middle in the early stages was plain dumb.
The fact opposing teams have correctly identified we have virtually no attacking threat on our edges or out wide other than Samuela, means they can confidently compress their defence making it extremely hard to penetrate with one out running through the middle. Why we are constantly running one out is yet another issue.
This will not change anytime soon or in 2027 until we learn how to play expansive with some genuine attacking threat when opposing teams choose to compress their defence against us.
As poor as our forwards were in the opening exchanges and as poor as our general yardage has been in the opening exchanges, this is a big reason why it is happening and I am not sure how we fix it with the current calibre of outside backs we have?
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Notice Starford when he ran out last night you could see he was not right.
Why can't Solo get a run in this team??
