Matulino
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Donald_Trump
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When are Twal and Packer due back?
GNR4LIFE
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No excuses for being caught on the last. Especially coming off a break in play. You have to have match awareness. Same goes for Marshall who passed it to him.
teddy23
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Dissappointing for me
Was expecting him to be our best signing and hasn’t played to his hype
Hoping he gets his mojo back when Packer is back
Was expecting him to be our best signing and hasn’t played to his hype
Hoping he gets his mojo back when Packer is back
Tim Sheens
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Benji passed the ball to Mats, so was totally to blame. Grant went well, taking his opportunity to shine.
upthetigers
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Grant was great wasn't he. At least we have some good depth this year. We've lost 3 games by 2 points, been in every contest, plenty to like about this team.
old_man_tiger
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By the end of the game our forwards were killing theirs, we didn't lose because of the forwards.
Too much pressure on the spine when your best hooker plays 30 minutes and Benji tries to control the game just when Brooks was looking like the difference.
I've been trying to not rip in to Benji, but enough is enough. He has been making it very hard for us every week since round 4 and is still having his praises sung. This is why people have written off Reynolds too early, Benji makes 2 or 3 of our top 5 dumb plays every week for a month and we start to lose games. No coincidence for mine.
Too much pressure on the spine when your best hooker plays 30 minutes and Benji tries to control the game just when Brooks was looking like the difference.
I've been trying to not rip in to Benji, but enough is enough. He has been making it very hard for us every week since round 4 and is still having his praises sung. This is why people have written off Reynolds too early, Benji makes 2 or 3 of our top 5 dumb plays every week for a month and we start to lose games. No coincidence for mine.
He feeds off Packer's energy.
Without Packer we're very weak.
Once Packer is back, Matu will improve.
Without Packer we're very weak.
Once Packer is back, Matu will improve.
Magpie_Magic
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Mats edge is his ability to offload. Trouble is when we start games like today with errors and it's happened other games they put the offload away and you take away his and the teams main weapons is time in possession wearing other teams out.
That's why guys with bad hands need to be dropped till they fix it. Start with Aloila Nofo Godinet especially for his dumb plays and penalties.. Were going ok but in our losses we didn't hold enough ball and conceded too many penalties and didn't hit hard enough especially with Packer and Twal missing and when Lawrence was out and they seem to go to stage 2 of minimising their attack to stay in the game.
That's why guys with bad hands need to be dropped till they fix it. Start with Aloila Nofo Godinet especially for his dumb plays and penalties.. Were going ok but in our losses we didn't hold enough ball and conceded too many penalties and didn't hit hard enough especially with Packer and Twal missing and when Lawrence was out and they seem to go to stage 2 of minimising their attack to stay in the game.
Nucky_Thompson
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55 meters from matulino this game
Fade_To_Black
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Thought RR looked injured today. First time he got tackled he was slow to his feet and looked sluggish from that moment on.
jirskyr
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I thought Mats played alright. He was really the lone prop today, Hooth is a lock and Aloiai is a backrower, Sue wasn't overly involved, Grant replaced Mats.
You can't get into him for that high shot, it was hardly careless or reckless, just bounced off the footy.
Thing about Mats is he is one of the few forwards that really sticks with his tackles. I love it, he really flattens the oppositions and he's tidy enough laterally as well, working from marker. His hitups are alright; he doesn't make made metres but that's not the gameplan frankly - none of our forwards are getting much over 100m in any game this year.
The idea seems to be sharing out the work - decent hitups, quick PTB, tackle your ring off, get subbed. 4 blokes rotate and run 70-90 metres, the back 3 stay on as long as possible and hold the middle.
You can't get into him for that high shot, it was hardly careless or reckless, just bounced off the footy.
Thing about Mats is he is one of the few forwards that really sticks with his tackles. I love it, he really flattens the oppositions and he's tidy enough laterally as well, working from marker. His hitups are alright; he doesn't make made metres but that's not the gameplan frankly - none of our forwards are getting much over 100m in any game this year.
The idea seems to be sharing out the work - decent hitups, quick PTB, tackle your ring off, get subbed. 4 blokes rotate and run 70-90 metres, the back 3 stay on as long as possible and hold the middle.
goldcoast_tiger
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I thought then , that most of our signings had a touch of desperation to them, including LoLo .
And in most cases I still do.
Thankfully I couldn’t have been more wrong about the benefit that Packer amd Thompson have bought to the Club . And I still think that Benjii Has been value
Maybe Reynolds will turn out ok,
But I think it’s just wishful thinking,,
And from what I kept hearing up here, McQueen is at best ,again more hope than anything.
It’s been good to see how last years young guys have improved though.
I’m glad that Ivan has kept them in the team , rather than trying to justify his new signings by playing them,
As for Matulino , he’s nowhere near what he was ,unfortunately
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He made 55m and you think that's alright?from our Representative prop forward who should have stood up because of the fact that he was the only starting prop.
To my eyes 4 plays lost us that game, 2 from Nofo 2 from Matulino.
Both of them have no one else to blame, Nofos directly led to tries.
Matulinos indirectly but crucial plays at crucial times, when I found out he only made 55m that just topped it off.
Not good enough
Harvey
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Matulino makes his biggest runs when someone else has forced the defence onto the back foot. He does not seem to move the defence back himself.
I have also noticed him fall off a number of tackles. Think Twal has a much bigger updside.
I have also noticed him fall off a number of tackles. Think Twal has a much bigger updside.
southerntiger
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Gee we lose a couple of games and the old mob comes out in force.
