OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

[Tigers_Wests]

Harsh to judge him on last night. Game was officiated differently to the rest of the season. Broncs wrestled in every tackle from the 1st min to 80min, ruck considerably slow. Look how quiet Api's game was.

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.

 

[Tito Santana]

I can see what you’re saying but think they are separate issues.
Yes, Maka had a game he would rather forget but hopefully learns from but Luai wasn’t great for two reasons.Firstly, he looked a bit underdone. Timing and confidence were missing. He wasn’t digging into the line and was noticeable compared to when Madden came on to the field.
Secondly, I think we probably went to his side too often which was where Staggs was and their defensive strength. I am not sure whether he was calling for the ball but we should have shifted to their right more often.

That’s true.

Staggs is a weapon eh. Incredibly strong defender.

 

[Speed2burn]

Luai has had many chances to ice games for us but has failed every time.

Going wide instead of setting up for the field goal was a very bad call.

That was a very strange moment

I was expecting Madden to turn the ball inside and set up for a field goal

 

[Buttface]

That’s true.

Staggs is a weapon eh. Incredibly strong defender.

Staggs missed four tackles by half time and we should have gone there more often in the second half.

 

[Lukic]

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).

 

[Tiger Stripes]

As he was this week.

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.

 

[HUNT 101]

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!!

 

[weststigerman]

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.

 

[EllisFan]

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.

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.

 

[Lukic]

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.

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.

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

Hope he puts his hand up again to play cup or bench - that’s where he is at in our team right now

 

[TYGA]

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.

 

[upthetigers]

Harsh to judge him on last night. Game was officiated differently to the rest of the season. Broncs wrestled in every tackle from the 1st min to 80min, ruck considerably slow. Look how quiet Api's game was.

Api had a quiet game? You can't be serious. He attacks with his defense.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Staggs missed four tackles by half time and we should have gone there more often in the second half.

Staggs.is a little overhyped, i would take Herbie in front of him and also Taylan May or Bradman Best

 

[weststigerman]

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.

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.

 

[Lukic]

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.

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.

 

[AnonTiger]

Api had a quiet game? You can't be serious. He attacks with his defense.

Are you serious? Im talking about how slow the ruck was due to Brisbane's wrestle, hence Api had a quiet game -clearly in attack.

 

[HUNT 101]

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.

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.

 

[king_sirro]

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.

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.

 

[Halbrowne61]

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.

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 !