How confident are you we can beat the Dragons?

[tigertiger10]

We got beaten pretty pretty easily in round 16 by 34-10 but there was a stage in that game where we got back to 12-10 from memory??? I think on our day we can cause them alot of trouble with our attacking playmakers in Marshall and Farah. Shut down Soward and Boyd, get to early lead and never give it up is the key.

We need to muscle up in defense for 80mins and our attack will be too strong for them

 

[spaceman]

We were pretty soft down the Lawrence / Lote side last night will have to improve there 200%…..the boys will turn up....lets just hope that peice of excrement Archer gives us a fair go

 

[red_dogg]

i think we created the most line breaks the dragons conceeded that game, they also scored 12 points very late, wayman should of been sent off….. but in sayin that both sides are playing allot better footy..... i just dont know if the dragons have another level..... we have shown we do.... if we can get off to a good start, score points early, ill be very confident.... they like to lead i believe they will struggle mentally if we can get a decent lead on them

 

[innsaneink]

Who played half for us that night?

 

[Geo]

Nobody

9 7 6 4 1 13 combo

 

[izotope]

Score early dragons arn't that good at catch up footy. They really only have 1 game plan

 

[innsaneink]

6\. Ayshford
7\. Marshall

 

[westTAHger]

get up and in their face. they can get rattled at times.
use a similar game plan, that canberra used in their most recent meeting, with the dragons.
if this can happen, will be confident, and have to wait for game day for this.

 

[Blake93]

Ellis will shut down soward/boyd and I think our left side will be too strong for them

 

[izotope]

Ellis will shut down soward/boyd and I think our left side will be too strong for them

our left side has to be, our right with Beau on the wing is weak as.

This sat whilein Canberra heard an interview with David gurner and he was giving a big wrap to our line speed in D all night. Said it really put mccrone/campo off.

 

[Spartan117]

Not confident - We still have to man mistakes in us a(While they have very few). I worry about the switching off that we see @ one point in the game where teams come back.

Saints aren't flashy but they sure are consistent

 

[shiretiger]

Im confident and annoyed as hell that I wont be able to witness the win in person [thanks to my darling wife organising a New Zealand family holiday].

Im not selling my Grand Final tickets as I am expecting us to beat the rorters in some sweet revenge.

 

[Tigerdave]

Fairly confident, the pressure is on them really. Even after them beating us 34-10, I didn't think too much of them, thought they were very beatable.

 

[Saturnalia]

I posted this in another thread, but I have my doubts.

Major difference from last time we played the dragons that I think everyone is forgetting is this man.


 

[MacDougall]

Yeah but we have Sheens mate. The only guy who compares.

 

[sjtiger]

I posted this in another thread, but I have my doubts.

Major difference from last time we played the dragons that I think everyone is forgetting is this man.


Now didnt he coach Broncos in 05? :wink:

 

[glebe_tiger]

to have any chance against the dragons our defence has to be on song.

if we defend like we did against the raiders no chance.

goal line defence has been the biggest worry for us.

 

[TripleB]

I didn't get to see the win over the Raiders, but from all reports we started at 150% like we did against the Rorters. I wonder if this was Tim Sheens getting us prepared for how we need to play to beat the Dragons??? I think if we hit the ground running we might be able to get a couple of quick tries and the Dragons might start to panic like they did in the finals last year. Hopefully we can blow them off the park early and hold on for another trip to the Grand Final.

 

[Fraze23]

Just sitting down watching the dvd of the 05 game, There are some similarities between the two sides and a few differences. Some dragons supporter put 65 grand on the dragons beating us that game. Im not sure how the game will pan out. If we show up and defend like we did against the roosters in the first half. Im nervous thinking about it

Remaining Dragons
Hornby, Cooper, Gasnier, Young, Creagh,
Remaining Tigers
Heighington, Farah, Marshall, Gibbs, Fulton, Fitzhenry, Skandalis, Payten

 

[Brett Thurbon]

I think its pretty simple, IF we can keep the Dagons to 18 points or less, we will have too much in attack for them. But we cant afford to let them get too far in front, they are good front runners. Tigers 25 - Dragons 12