NRL Trial Side Named *GAME THREAD

I haven't been a fan of throwing Taupau in the back row, but with how little depth we have, i'm not sure we have a choice.
 
Taupau isnt yer stock standard prop. He is agile and fast for a big guy. If anyone could handle backrow its him. Im guessing its out of him and halatau!

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If u look at a full strength bulldogs pack

Graham
Kasiano
Pritchard
Tolman
Jackson
Eastwood

I think the only way can compete against that is if Taupau is in the backrow. Whether it's lock or on the edge I don't care, but for me, Marty must be back there to give us a SBW type influence while other big men get us going forward. He's our X Factor forward.

A pack like this has good look about it

8.Galloway
9.Farah
10.Woods
11.Sironen
12.Lamar/Sue/Akaoula/Santi
13.Taupau

Ava
Lodge
Sue/Lamar/Akaoula/Funaki

So I'm very happy to hear Taylor might be going this way
 
@Geo. said:
@NT Tiger said:
If you go to the CAAMA website and look for Parramatta Eels vs Wests Tigers there is a little slide show from last nights game.

While the broadcast was difficult to understand I reckon it's worth cutting them some slack as they don't see a lot of NRL out this way. I found it interesting from the cross cultural perspective with the almost instant personalisation of players by giving them nicknames and the multiple attempts at trying to announce difficult names. Getting names (identities) right is very important in traditional culture. This was the announcers way of drawing players into relevance with the local mob.
CAAMA is broadcast to very remote communities, many of which don't get a lot of experience with NRL. Wests Tigers (especially Quadja) will now have supporters in some remote places. If these announcers gained more experience with NRL, I reckon you would find their broadcasts hilarious in time.

On reflection NT you are right my pathetic comment was way to harsh and I take it back…they certainly were enthusiastic...maybe it was the Parwa bias that put me off but that is to be expected and no worse than when Steel Sports Radio call a Newtown game....

In the end even I was rooting for Quadja...I think it could catch on...
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thank you for your honesty Geo - but i always knew you were good - that's the bottom line
 
the irony in the game for me was we scored 20 points or something like that - but the focus became our defense. We created a wall. This is a top 8 team. Without a shadow of doubt. I'm with the players on this one - i think the bar has been raised and the goal has been set. It's a win win situation really.
 
@AmericanHistoryX said:
the irony in the game for me was we scored 20 points or something like that - but the focus became our defense. We created a wall. This is a top 8 team. Without a shadow of doubt. I'm with the players on this one - i think the bar has been raised and the goal has been set. It's a win win situation really.
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Jason Taylor Agrees

Taylor praises defensive effort in win
Dan Talintyre
Sat 14th February, 07:14AM
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Wests Tigers Coach Jason Taylor has praised his side's defensive effort following a 20-4 win over the Parramatta Eels in their Alice Springs trial match.
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Having kept the Eels scoreless for over 70 minutes before Fabian Goodall crossed out wide in the final moments of the match, Taylor said his side will take plenty of confidence from their defensive resolve heading into next week's trial against Cronulla.
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"All up, it was a good performance from the boys tonight," he said.
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"The boys were happy with it and I was happy with it as well.
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"The big thing was that we worked to play the way that we’ve trained, and that’s what we did tonight and that will give the guys some real confidence.
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"The boys did well in defence. It’s something that we are working on and it was a good result in that regard given how much attacking Parramatta did on the night.
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"The boys will really take some confidence from this one — confidence in that what we’re working on at training is effective [and] if we do it well, we’ll get some results."
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Hear what he had to say in full about the match in the video above.
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http://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2015/02/14/taylor_praises_defen.html
 
without seeing or listening to the game.
what i've gathered so far is that the 1st q players were struggling to stray from old habits with the ball and gifting field position to the eels.

what was different was that they defended their mistakes,something we always struggle with,either defending dropped ball or penalties.

was good to hear that with all the shifting of players during the 2nd half of the game the defense stayed strong.
could be an indicator that the players fully understand the responsibility of every player,not just their usual position.

early days,and there isn't much attacking flair at this time of year that puts much pressure on the defense.

hopefully the lack of talk about injury means it was a good night on that front.
another day and some more confidence is able to grow after the youngsters performance in the nines.

can't ask for much more really.
 
How strong was Parra's side? I heard they had a few out. I think next week will be a better guide to what our defence is like given id assume the Sharks would name a near to full strength side given its the last trial.
 
@GNR4LIFE said:
How strong was Parra's side? I heard they had a few out. I think next week will be a better guide to what our defence is like given id assume the Sharks would name a near to full strength side given its the last trial.
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1\. Adam Quinlan
2\. Halauafu Lavaka
3\. Ryan Morgan
4\. Beau Champion
5\. Bureta Faraimo
6\. Ryan Matterson
7\. Luke Kelly
8\. Tim Mannah
9\. Isaac De Gois
10\. Darcy Lussick
11\. Pauli Pauli
12\. Joseph Ualesi
13\. David Gower
Interchange:
14\. Ben Crooks
15\. Vai Toutai
16\. John Folau
17\. Fabian Goodall
18\. Zach Dockar-Clay
20\. Danny Wicks
21\. Josh Aloiai
22\. Junior Paulo
23\. Cody Nelson
24\. Peni Terepo
 
that's not the point - we built a wall. We never really had that in our culture before. This is new. This isn't about Parra. this is about us. Let's be grateful for change in this case.
Baby steps.
 
Parra had more ball than us and they had some size. In the past we have folded against that but I think the new defensive structure will give the team a lot of confidence.
 
Thanks Geo and T1 for the updates.
Sound like no injuries came out of the trial which is always a blessing.
Not sure trial form is anything to go by but the signs are good.
 
Parramatta's predicted round 1 side from NRL.com

1\. Will Hopoate,
2\. Semi Radradra,
3\. Brad Takairangi,
4\. Ryan Morgan,
5\. Vai Toutai,
6\. Corey Norman,
7\. Chris Sandow,
8\. Tim Mannah ©,
9\. Nathan Peats,
10\. Junior Paulo,
11\. Kenny Edwards,
12\. Anthony Watmough,
13\. Joseph Paulo.

14\. Isaac De Gois,
15\. Manu Ma'u,
16\. Darcy Lussick,
17\. Tepai Moeroa.

Its one trial against an under strength team.

People getting a little over excited. Leave it until we do the same against a near full strength team.
 
@Tiger In The Gong said:
People getting a little over excited. Leave it until we do the same against a near full strength team.
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It requires much more than that. We smashed Canterbury and Souths last year.

Its about consistently putting in quality efforts.
 
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