LIVE GAME Round 1 vs Knights

[krissy]

Man Galvin needs to learn to be more of a team player, even with a 4x premiership winning half he still hogs the ball. He killed us many times tonight

I agree with you, Galvin has a tendency to be a ball hog or attempt to be a hero. He needs to settle his game & learn to trust the other players.

 

[Halbrowne61]

The criticism of Galvin reminds me of the criticism of Moses. We lost a great one there.

Lets not do it again 🙂 Give him time.

When the half is quiet and not involved, we call for him to be involved. When he's in everything he can be in, he's doing too much.

Luai was great, but he should have been guiding Galvin.

Not sure that Luai was great, more a solid 1st up run but think he ran out of puff in the 2nd half. Should only improve.
We still don’t know how to convert winnable games.

 

[J.T]

They just needed to come right sometimes when attacking the line. So many times in that 2nd half we had them shot to pieces with a big overlap on our right side yet they just continually went left. Hopefully with Api's vision they can rectify that next week.

 

[Brett Thurbon]

here is a positive, given our F/A, we will probably be sitting 1 win out of the 8, Smash parra next week, and we are comfotably in the top 8

 

[happy_tiger]

What do you think of starting with the Fainu bros, Sione and Samuela?

Force Seyfarth to the bench.

I think Sione can play anywhere in the pack.

I'd prefer Bird to as the 1st option

 

[bbobb]

Our long kicking game was poor. Too many times they started their sets beyond the 20. Luai and Galvin don’t have the kicking distance - I would use Doueihi if possibe to get the ball down the other end

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

I mean, I'm not Cooper Cronk or JT but I noticed Galvin overplaying every set.. so did most people on the forums judging by other peoples comments?
I'm a big fan of Galvin and hope he does well, but the kid needs to take a backseat to Luia and stop trying to score on every single play.
Keen to see them together with Api and Bula though, could be the difference maker.

Neither am I. But week 1 new halves FFS. People are paid to think about this not us. For those that have played in the halves at any level - things don’t work perfectly off the bat. Appreciate your view

 

[TYGA]

Although I thought Skelton had a good strong game and maybe he needs to be in the centres.

He was excellent as he was at Kogarah in the trial. We need athletes he is a powerful winger. Leave him there.

 

[Ermo]

Samuel did fine that I saw. Hard to say though because it was so scrappy. Except for May I'm worried about the front row.

Samuela did nothing

 

[bptiger 0]

The criticism of Galvin reminds me of the criticism of Moses. We lost a great one there.

Lets not do it again 🙂 Give him time.

When the half is quiet and not involved, we call for him to be involved. When he's in everything he can be in, he's doing too much.

Luai was great, but he should have been guiding Galvin.

Laui was missing in action , he was very poor in attack.
But it all comes back to BENJIs coaching, no backline plays , tried to go up the middle all day , and where was the coach’s direction to get it wide , it never changed, so u can say he never sent out instructions about it , because as a coach I would have been on the side line demanding they do what I want

 

[krissy]

Skelton, May, Turuva, Bird and Luai were all very good - we are light years from where we were

We definitely have better cattle than last season and it will take some time to gel. Our new buys definitely showed promise, May was great. We need to use them correctly.

 

[diedpretty]

Ok Mr coach - latu? All happy for that - but 1 game of new combo. We just almost won a game against a top 8 side

I'm not saying Galvin isn't the answer but at the moment he is part of the problem. It wasn't just this game where he overplayed his hand - he did the same in the trials. We paid 1.2 million to get a world class half and Galvin still tries to take on every play - there were times he spent more time running backwards and forward across the park to get involved in plays that he didn't need to be in. Benji needs to either reign him in and teach him to pick his moments. If he is not prepared to do that then yeah i would drop him.

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

I'm not saying Galvin isn't the answer but at the moment he is part of the problem. It wasn't just this game where he overplayed his hand - he did the same in the trials. We paid 1.2 million to get a world class half and Galvin still tries to take on every play - there were times he spent more time running backwards and forward across the park to get involved in plays that he didn't need to be in. Benji needs to either rein him in and teach him to pick his moments. If he is not prepared to do that then yeah i would drop him.

Not disagreeing with anything you say. Week 1. Coach Benj decision.

 

[Betterdays22]

You didn't see them rolling up into the red zone almost every set
- Then bombing it when they went wide and their coach continually screaming at them for it?
Then you didn't see us kicking from inside our own half for most of the game, Barely challenging the kick return...

It's on again a bit later if you wanna run it again.

Eh not on first watch. Saw it differently. I thought May, Twal, Pole did a good job for most of the game. Sam Fainu was quiet. I remember a 10-15 minute period where knights didnt have a tackle in our half. Their backs cut us to pieces for large parts of the 2nd half.

Im as jaded as anyone but there were some flashes in the game that got me excited.
Knight are a professional side who have been together for a few years now, they looked much more connected than our guys. I think that was the difference.

 

[happy_tiger]

I guess we see the problem when you have 2 left side halves.......Newcastle were able to sit on our left side .......then we tried more kicks than a Bruce Lee movie

 

[Muffstar]

Ok Mr coach - latu? All happy for that - but 1 game of new combo. We just almost won a game against a top 8 side

almost isn't good enough, doesn't get you the 2 points. Galvin was ordinary.

 

[Year_of_the_Tiger]

Sam F is off and I said during the trials - seems second year syndrome or injured. Half the player he was last year. Looks too slim for me and needs a head shave

 

[Halbrowne61]

His asset is he eats metres early in sets, and you want to take him out of the role?

He’s an atrocious defender.

Then he’ll make B a perfect centre partner for Douehi 🤣🤣🤣

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Felt Romey was all over Ponga
Our first half was filled with luck

Then it ran out...
Close game but yeah we ran out of steam...

Luai needed to take control
Galvin let the team down

needs.to go to 13 mate
get latu into the game

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Right side 2RF is a glaring standout hole we need to find an answer for, Seyfarth just doesn't have enough impact there, off the bench at best.