OFFICIAL Heamasi Makasini #303

supercoach said:
Successful cap management involves skill and luck. Firstly you try and assemble a quality spine. Than you get a couple of standout front rowers and at least one very good edge back rower. Than you throw some money at outstanding kids who have real potential. What cap you have left you throw at journeyman and kids coming through. Benji has managed to lock in are very solid core of players and hopefully a couple of kids are going to really surprise and make the big step to nrl
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I know the convention is:
"Assemble a quality spine".

I kinda wonder. Look some halfbacks can be excellent in a bad team, Andrew Johns and DCE exemplify this. Others really struggle. So you buy a gun halfback for 1.2m, a decent 5/8 for 700k a fullback for 1m and a hooker for 700k. ... What we found is if you are still letting in 4 tries a game you will loose!

^remember your centers and pack are not sorted yet. Also your team is aging.

I say buy a good backline, 2x centers who have good defense and can cross the line, plus at least one winger who can tackle... Then hire a decent forward pack. With a team that is now setup so that it isn't "mission Impossible" for the halfback, someone like Sullivan could learn his craft.
 
Adam Doobie said:
He's not far off being a genuine first grader. Once he has 30-40 games under his belt he'll be a force to be reckoned with. The game where he had his shocker it seemed the physicality and pressure was getting a bit much for him.

After seeing Payne Haas get manhandled in his first three games, then the next season he was instantly a weapon, I'll never write off a young gun with big wraps. At least not until they've had 3-4 seasons to develop.
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Ahh thats good to know. I wasn’t aware of that
 
Think Macca signing is great work by the club and everyone involved , it’s been very good over the past 4 to 6 weeks or so with the May brothers staying on , Twally , AD , Bulla , just pleasing to see some real positive news coming out , no poor press , but the team even though under strength still needs to get winning again , we can’t slip any more games specially ones against lower teams like Dogs , eels , dragons , titans , we need to muscle up play as a unit like we were and just get on top , line speed for defence , deep kicks to corners plus a few bombs and grubbers , 40/20 attempts , really stir it up but turn them around , hurt in tackles , and run like you mean it , enjoy a good day today everyone I feel a win coming up
 
426Tlgerland said:
Think Macca signing is great work by the club and everyone involved , it’s been very good over the past 4 to 6 weeks or so with the May brothers staying on , Twally , AD , Bulla , just pleasing to see some real positive news coming out , no poor press , but the team even though under strength still needs to get winning again , we can’t slip any more games specially ones against lower teams like Dogs , eels , dragons , titans , we need to muscle up play as a unit like we were and just get on top , line speed for defence , deep kicks to corners plus a few bombs and grubbers , 40/20 attempts , really stir it up but turn them around , hurt in tackles , and run like you mean it , enjoy a good day today everyone I feel a win coming up
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Yep 100% agree , Just make every tackle hurt,we need to play with more grunt quick line speed hard hitting.Hurt them in defence will open up our attack.
 
Tom Shines said:
Benji’s biggest focus should be doing everything he can to win the next game …the season could go south in a hurry if they lose
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No, we can't keep thinking quick solutions.

The whole double pumps work for a game or two, then they are gone.

Benji should be building skills that help us get a steady pattern of winning. Not quick fixes that will help us win the next game, but offer nothing in the future.

Things like "getting defense right" "sticking to a solid center/back line". Developing real structure vs quick touch footy tricks.
 
king_sirro said:
The illegal stuff on him is unbelievable. The game is such a disgrace in so many ways, it really is.

We really need to get some healthy players so he can spend some time in cup
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He has been targeted by the opposition… I’ll say mostly legitimate …maybe we need some better players out wide to take some pressure off ..: that hype he got from that try in the preseason has backfired
 
Tom Shines said:
What’s the motive for that ? Are they trying to rub out some kid ?
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Tom Shines said:
What’s the motive for that ? Are they trying to rub out some kid ?
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I don't think there is a motive. I think they are just giving him a welcome to first grade. However, he was sent for a HIA. We all saw it was a shoulder charge, and I guess it got him in the head, but nobody saw it but the Docter. Just like the early line speed from the Dogs. Did we even get one six again.
 
tonza said:
I don't think there is a motive. I think they are just giving him a welcome to first grade. However, he was sent for a HIA. We all saw it was a shoulder charge, and I guess it got him in the head, but nobody saw it but the Docter. Just like the early line speed from the Dogs. Did we even get one six again.
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I don’t think there is any conspiracy by the officials against him ..so I don’t agree it’s a “disgrace “..
… he has been targeted all year by every team he comes up against ,,, probably because he is susceptible to intimidation being an 18;yr old kid …. And we don’t have a lot more playes out wide that the opposition needs to be worried about so they can concentrate on him …
 
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