OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

We dominated field position and possession wise. There's really no excuse here apart from being underdone (in which case if he actually were, he shouldn't have been selfish and ruined what was working).
 
Alex.Angelakis said:
Hi tigers fans i know your hurting like me but deep down i knew they were going to loose when benji was going to play luai and drop madden it changed our attacking structure luai was hopeless he should have brought him in in the second have turuva was great in the centres benji has to learn not to break a winning formula so he can accommodate his mates bad coaching anyway at least we didn't humiliated but madden must play half at all cost.
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Just in case you missed it.

 
Alex.Angelakis said:
Hi tigers fans i know your hurting like me but deep down i knew they were going to loose when benji was going to play luai and drop madden it changed our attacking structure luai was hopeless he should have brought him in in the second have turuva was great in the centres benji has to learn not to break a winning formula so he can accommodate his mates bad coaching anyway at least we didn't humiliated but madden must play half at all cost.
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Alex - are your weekly posts here so important they require their own threads ?
 
stevied said:
As he was this week.
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The defenders/coach have also figured out Terrell May.
Send in 3 players, lock up the ball, allow him to push for a couple of meters then knock him down and roll him on his back. Followed by a slow PTB. Repeat whole game.
Meanwhile the other defenders are in position to defend the next runner.
Terrell needs to get off the post meter gains stat. and onto the PTB stats. It's slowing the attack.
But a great defender.
 
Hardly notice Jerome was playing, that's a problem ,he was nothing special ,Jock is by no means a better player,but his style works, Jerome can be a very scattered player ,I Reckon Jerome should have started off the bench after a few weeks off, given Jock the first 20 instead of the last.. At least we didn't get flogged, can't win em all good...Bring on Canberra, we'll see if there's any changes!!
 
Pretty common for attack to be clunky when halves are first game back, just look at what happened to the Warriors when Metcalf came back.

Luai is the least of our problems. Need to pick either AD or Madden to partner him and keep it that way, no halves coming on unless there is an injury.
 
stevied said:
He was virtually invisible last night and made two big blunders; the grubber over the in goal line when we had the Broncos on the rack and the decision to run wide when we should have been setting up for the field goal. However, like others, I'm willing to say there was a bit of rust there and he'll most likely improve next week. What worries me more is the overall lack of creativity and organisation of our halves pairing.
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AD & JL in the halves have looked clunky 2/3 matches and resulted in two L’s. The Cows game was a pass mark.

Jock straightens us up and needs to come in. His long kicking game also helps us build pressure.

People can argue over who should be playing six but it’s obvious we need Jock steering the ship.
 
weststigerman said:
Pretty common for attack to be clunky when halves are first game back, just look at what happened to the Warriors when Metcalf came back.

Luai is the least of our problems. Need to pick either AD or Madden to partner him and keep it that way, no halves coming on unless there is an injury.
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He's absolutely not the least of our problems lol. We just won 3 games without him and he's getting paid 1.2m a year. He quite literally is our biggest problem, and by a significant margin.
 
Don’t understand the hate for Luai he has been good since last half of last year. Poor game back from injury and the hate is there from sections of fans. Interestingly enough same people that death ride Benji.
 
Lukic said:
He's absolutely not the least of our problems lol. We just won 3 games without him and he's getting paid 1.2m a year. He quite literally is our biggest problem, and by a significant margin.
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I get it, you’re used to losing and panicking. Luai was man of the match round 2 which was the last time he played 80 minutes.

We lost to the premiers by 1, let’s see how they go over the next few weeks before we sack our best player.
 
weststigerman said:
I get it, you’re used to losing and panicking. Luai was man of the match round 2 which was the last time he played 80 minutes.

We lost to the premiers by 1, let’s see how they go over the next few weeks before we sack our best player.
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He's not even remotely close to being our best player. He's been awful in 2 out of 3 games. We lost to a team missing arguably their 4 best, or 4 of their best 5 players amongst others. We totally dominated field position and our "best" player was pathetic with a platform that most halves would dream of.
 
weststigerman said:
I get it, you’re used to losing and panicking. Luai was man of the match round 2 which was the last time he played 80 minutes.

We lost to the premiers by 1, let’s see how they go over the next few weeks before we sack our best player.
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No one is saying sack him, but he can only be judged on his last game and it was average.Im definitely no panicking just an observation , 3 in a row, depleted Broncos, full house home game ",best player " back ....heaps of ball 10 out and didn't produce much you can't disagree..
Maybe the blame falls back on Benji , Jerome apparently said play me off the bench. the premier yeah but nar ,team was depleted.
 
HUNT 101 said:
No one is saying sack him, but he can only be judged on his last game and it was average.Im definitely no panicking just an observation , 3 in a row, depleted Broncos, full house home game ",best player " back ....heaps of ball 10 out and didn't produce much you can't disagree..
Maybe the blame falls back on Benji , Jerome apparently said play me off the bench. the premier yeah but nar ,team was depleted.
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If you can only be judged on your last game then every team would change significantly each week. The notion you can only be judged on your last game doesn't make any sense at all.
 
Tigers_Wests said:
Agreed. Easy to see the tactic from Broncos to just give away 6 agains if need be as long as they didn't let us get any momentum with a speedy play the ball. Worked in stifling our attack for the most part and made Luai ineffective.

In that 1st half, I don't know how there wasn't a binning for repeated infringements.
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Excellent question, or it only be an individual who commits 3 offences.
Remember Luai getting marched and last night was just as bad if not worse.
I don’t remember the ref even calling out Reynolds to issue a final warning !
 
Lukic said:
He's not even remotely close to being our best player. He's been awful in 2 out of 3 games. We lost to a team missing arguably their 4 best, or 4 of their best 5 players amongst others. We totally dominated field position and our "best" player was pathetic with a platform that most halves would dream of.
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Part of the problem with Jarome and why people get frustrated with him is that he's getting 1.2 mil which is best player money. To be fair, I don't think he's getting paid merely for his on field performances. It's for his voice, experience and winning attitude. Having said that, he was virtually invisible v Broncos and actually cost us with his grubber in goal and setting for field goal stuff ups. I'm willing to cut him some slack first game back. Maybe he was aware of the team's improved cohesion with Madden and tried to be too careful, letting Douehi run the show.
 
king_sirro said:
If you can only be judged on your last game then every team would change significantly each week. The notion you can only be judged on your last game doesn't make any sense at all.
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Again I'm not saying drop Jerome I'm simply saying based off his last game,or judge off his last game he played average and we should have started with Jock since he has done a great job and Jerome could benefit from coming off the bench, your talking about how good he played in round 2 .!!!
Team first best 100,% injury free 13 on the field . maybe he was 80%
 
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