I think he tries to. Mason tries, Herbert tries, Madden tries. In most teams you can have 1 or 2 of these guys who can do a job and rely on the talent around them (like Madden earlier in the year). When you have 5 or 6 of guys of these callibre on the field at once, thats a problem. Especially with the pace of the game now. Those less talented stick out more than ever
The back 13 in your roster are playing reserve grade for a reason, not good enough or thick as pigshit.
I actually think all 3 teams will be there at the pointy end give or take Melbourne. I think their 7 game losing streak may just be a bit too much
Yes no doubt.
This next transition will be important, we’ve had a good flegg team for the past few years, hopefully some kids are pushing for top 30 spots to replace under performers
Maybe so, but Sharks weren’t playing well at the time and Storm were woefully out of form. Manly were the only side playing good footy coming into our game.
What you say is all well and good in theory but they are not automatons. You can lead a horse to water etc. You can drill and drill and drill but if your player isnt confident or experienced or skilled enough to enact the drilled activity in real time game conditions you still end up with mud. It is also a team sport of non automatons and if you happen to be a highly skilled player next to a relatively unskilled player your level of trust will not be the same. Knowing you have to cover for a reserve grader adds to your overall fatigue over time. Yes next man up should work. If your next man has a sufficient skill level to accomplish the role he's been trained for.
If he doesn’t, than that is the clubs fault.
Praying it happens, the next men up we have at the moment just aren't cutting the mustard.
Yep our leaders and more experienced players have seriously let us down. No amount of "next man up mentality" by our coaches and ressies will fix the simple errors made by our supposedly better players, thats why the phrase has irked me the last few weeks.
That is a truism. The hiring and training of all players is the clubs responsibility. I'm just saying that, from my perspective, for the most part it is the hiring that needs to improve. The first 17 seem to be trained well enough, their replacements just aren't up to it.
We’ve just completed a solid round of retentions with a couple of more big ones which look likely. That’s the first true indication that the club is turning a corner and should enable us to attract and retain better depth players on lower value contracts. Maybe it won’t, but I believe we have come a long way from the dark old days of consecutive wooden spoons. As frustrating as it is, Rome wasn’t built in a day.
I can take them in extremely small doses.
The first two tries vs Manly were very frustrating. First- halves not kicking, rushed kick that is off the side of the boot. Only short and to the open side where the equal fastest player in the competition gets it in open space. Yes, we had chances to tackle him but never should have been it that position.
