OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

Bellend said:
Sol Saukuru was needed on Sunday at least he runs with a purpose. Samuel needs to hit the gym hard in the off season along with Sione.
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He is a 20yo solid unit that I want to see getting an occasional run to end the season, so that he knows how hard he needs to work in the off-season to prepare for the challenge of proving himself a starter next season.

Whether it be him or Samuela outside of Luai, the pairing needs to become more like the combination with Kikau that thrived at Penrith.
 
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Bellend said:
We should have a long time ago and we need a tackling coach and a new defensive coach asap.
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I agree @Bellend @mtd#2 Jarome & Latu need to be doing a lot of kicking practice in the off & pre season to develop in this area with a speciialist kicking coach. Jarome would have seen how much extras Nathan Cleary did with his kicking, he & Latu need to follow suit (and Api & Mason).
 
Laui just needs some more top-grade players to help.

You cannot expect him to be in the top 8 with some of these players we have.

Big 6 months coming up for Richo to add players where we struggle but keep the faith people as we have already had a better year this year with like 7 games to go.
 
Vicious said:
Luai is the ultimate professional in that he trains hard, prepares very well and competes hard on game days, nobody can deny this.
The theory was our team was lacking professionalism and the ability to dig in and compete when things got tough on game days.
No doubt he has helped in these areas, particularly the first half of the season, but over the past month or so in particular his demeanour has started to change, he’s now looking stressed, drained and stuck for ideas.
He’s trying his backside off no doubting that, but ultimately he has not yet shown anywhere near 1.3 million per season of value.
Let’s hope he can rectify this for the remainder of the season.
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Playing for the Tigers will do that to a player. We’ve seen it all before.
 
Luai is not the problem and never has been.

It's coaching pure and simple, better coach and we would have had a better season.

I have been a Benji supporter in the past and I'd still like to see him succeed but unfortunately I don't think he will.

For him to succeed he had to appoint the best offensive and defensive assistants and let them run the X and O s essentially let them coach the team.

He needed to be the man manager, recruitment and the club figure head it's the only way it could have worked.

Unfortunately his ego and paranoia have led him to seround himself with his ex team mates with low skills and poor experience. Excluding John Morris who I actually think would make a better head coach than Benji.

But we are stuck with Benji because if he is fired the few good first graders we have walk out the door.......
 
Needaname said:
I’ve heard players speak about the threat of Samuela out wide with the ball. He is being marked and well, we need to start using him as a decoy close the the line. Now if only we had a hard running centre that could capitalise on that play…
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I think we use him too much as a decoy

Ive heard opposition players talk about how hard he is to tackle.. which makes me think we should play him in the front row rotationn for a while... Just get his hands on the ball as much as possible... Doesn't see enough on the edge

Then when we develops and has the runs under his belt we can shift him to the edge again
 
mtd#2 said:
I think we use him too much as a decoy

Ive heard opposition players talk about how hard he is to tackle.. which makes me think we should play him in the front row rotationn for a while... Just get his hands on the ball as much as possible... Doesn't see enough on the edge

Then when we develops and has the runs under his belt we can shift him to the edge again
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Interesting take.
Funny. Stats say otherwise.
In the Roosters game, his supposed outlier of performances this year he had 6 hit ups out of 11 receipts for 62 metres
In the Warriors game he had 11 hit ups from 15 receipts for 90 metres the second highest hit up tally of our forwards.
 
Yeah I don't think Luai is the problem. Aside forward depth and go forward. We really lack
an attacking coach with set plays and contingency plays. We struggle with the ball and lack
confidence.

Do the walker brothers want to be our attacking coaches?

Sam walker goes alright with instinctive football and a great instinctive general kicking game.
 
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Needaname said:
Interesting take.
Funny. Stats say otherwise.
In the Roosters game, his supposed outlier of performances this year he had 6 hit ups out of 11 receipts for 62 metres
In the Warriors game he had 11 hit ups from 15 receipts for 90 metres the second highest hit up tally of our forwards.
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Just my observation over time, not necessarily the most recent games. I have felt there are times he's been a decoy when he should have been getting the ball.. on another note I heard on one of the podcasts that Terrell has the most hit ups and most decoys in the whole of the NRL which is kinda insane
 
das tigers said:
Yeah I don't think Luai is the problem. Aside forward depth and go forward. We really lack
an attacking coach with set plays and contingency plays. We struggle with the ball and lack
confidence.

Do the walker brothers want to be our attacking coaches?

Sam walker goes alright with instinctive football and a great instinctive general kicking game.
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Funny how the Walker Brothers were laughed at a few years ago for their short kick offs and line drop outs in the Queensland Cup Competition, now everyone does it.
 
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API and Luau have played under premiership coaches and with premiership squads they would know better than anyone where the real problems lie. No coach wins a premiership without the squad capable of doing it, and all great clubs continue to build and strengthen their squads by retaining and attracting players who believe in their systems giving their coaches the resources to be successful.
Anyone who thinks this squad is close to that level has got the WTs blinkers on with or without Benji.
Sacking a coach on the back of a club that has been camped at the bottom will not attract "the coach" who can miraculously turn things around and will only start the process of rebuilding with the same barriers that the previous coach/s faced.
Im not sold on Benji yet but if the players that know better than me are, then the rebuild needs to continue or we are just confirming what too many already believe that we have no answers other than to make the coach the fall guy.
 
hank37w said:
Funny how the Walker Brothers were laughed at a few ago for their short kick offs and line drop outs in the Queensland Cup Competition, now everyone does it.
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Really,were they? I loved the creative way to play. Yeah doing it all the time now.

That year Ipswich played on grand final day was a great style. Poor buggers lost all their players
after it.We got 2 (griffin and I can't remember).
 
mtd#2 said:
Just my observation over time, not necessarily the most recent games. I have felt there are times he's been a decoy when he should have been getting the ball.. on another note I heard on one of the podcasts that Terrell has the most hit ups and most decoys in the whole of the NRL which is kinda insane
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fair call. Yeah Terrell is a weapon. Over the off-season more power specific training and he’ll be elite class!
 
das tigers said:
Really,were they? I loved the creative way to play. Yeah doing it all the time now.

That year Ipswich played on grand final day was a great style. Poor buggers lost all their players
after it.We got 2 (griffin and I can't remember).
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Yeah that was Rod Griffin who was also a New Guinea Rep player and the other one was Billy McConnaghie who was a Scottish Rep in the 4 Nations or something like that and I think he was also man of the match in the State Championship game that Ipswich won against Newcastle.

I think Griffin played a year of reserve grade for us but I don't think McConnaghie ever actually played a game for us at all, not even sure if he ended up coming down to Sydney.
 
Samuela was great with Galvin last year, looked good when Latu played on his edge last week and has been far less impactful with Luai.
 
das tigers said:
Yeah I don't think Luai is the problem. Aside forward depth and go forward. We really lack
an attacking coach with set plays and contingency plays. We struggle with the ball and lack
confidence.

Do the walker brothers want to be our attacking coaches?

Sam walker goes alright with instinctive football and a great instinctive general kicking game.
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No , the Walkers have put their hands up to coach the Titans. Nobody’s been game to give them a shot at the big time.
 
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