LIVE GAME Round 16 v Raiders

[orange&black]

Don’t understand TDS not getting a run. Other than that I can’t agree with blaming Benji for the loss - perhaps he picked Mason instead of Latu, but there were valid reasons for that.
I come back to my halftime post questioning the difference between this team and those of the last few seasons. In the past we are smashed by 40 plus but this season we are still in the game. I see a group that is united and trying their best we are just short a little quality in certain positions. By position player for player the Raiders have us all over the park.

 

[cone]

If Manly don’t turn up at home next weekend, their season is done.
We’ll have to be really good.

It’s 50/50 for me rn, depends on which teams show up for sure

 

[Kelce68]

lol BS.
I checked the stats at halftime. They had more missed tackles and more ineffective.
It was a gutsy win by them as they didn’t play well.
Had they played last weekend, we would have rolled them.

So did I.

They missed 3 tackles in the first half, but I didn't check the ineffective, so I'll trust you there.

From my perspective, I thought Canberra were very, very strong defensively in the first half.

That doesn't also mean our attack wasn't poor.

 

[Buttface]

Bula had a slightly poor game but that's unusual
Douehi had his best game this year also unusual
Go figure !

Do you mean tonight?

 

[GNR4LIFE]

The fact TDS didn’t see one minute tells you how much Benji values him.

 

[cone]

7 players i hold blameless, although maybe they had moments that could have been better you can say they deserved a win
Fainu
Fainu
Fainu
May
Turuva
Toa
Pole


Why do our fortunes depend on who Luai is partnered with in the halves and not Luai?

Seems like the Fainu bros all go to another level when they play together

 

[liltiger]

Damn other thing I just realised, my first post tonight I said I feel a Tigers upset in my bones coming tonight. Turns out it must be bloody arthritis. Good night all.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Do you mean tonight?

Wasn’t far off.

 

[Halbrowne61]

A clueless coach!

I’d say a learning coach, he’s got a lot of ground to make up, not sure all the old boys around him are helping or not.
Most disappointing thing for me is, I think, 6 losses by 6 or less points.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

TEAM STATS

We had …

Nearly 4 mins more possession
400 more run metres
100 more post contact metres
21 more tackle breaks
4 less ruck infringements
1 interchange up our sleeve

We hardly lost a stat but we just cannot take advantage at the moment.

🤬🤬🤬🤬

 

[TSP]

We had enough ball to score 6 or 7 tries, but fumbled and bumbled their way to 2 tries.
Bula was back to his jogging shit show.
We lack speed, how many breaks were made and nobody with any pace backing up ?
Api too old to be playing 80mins yet we leave a young up and comer with plenty of zip and plenty of speed in Da Silva on the bench for the full 80mins ? Who does that ?

The corpse is too warm for a thorough post mortem.

But as I come across the body, I see chronic lapses of focus in attack ( ie overlaps missed), poor positioning and awareness ( defence) and lack of discipline.

Penalty in possession when the game is in the balance. I think that was the fatal blow.

Scalpel…

 

[Tucker]

100% he was gonna go into the forwards and that’s probably a big reason why he left. Latu is special and can turn this club around

I think it’s definitely the reason he left.

 

[Wiz]

Why didn't they at least look at the bula no try, they normally do except for the tigers

Bula should have claimed the try and not played the ball. Would have forced the ref to make a call and the video ref would have looked at it. It was either dumb by Bula or he knew he didn’t score. I thought it might have been a double movement from Bula.

 

[cone]

A very frustrating performance - clearly we're trying hard. More than enough opportunities to win that game, however, not good enough in the opposition 20. Our pack did amazingly well against a strong pack.

You can tell how much we’ve missed fonua, we probably win a couple of those close games if he played

 

[Lestronge]

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Nah he was good today . I thought he had a good game . He’s a good ref man . Calls it fair and even , doesn’t let teams who like to participate in Farkery like the raiders tbh , to let it influence him .
Not like Klein , who not only is influenced by the farkery , but actively
Participating in it himself .. Joke of a ref . On a different note big Willy today said in his podcast “how is that guy still in the nrl “ … so everyone sees it . Dude plays favourites nuff said !

 

[Halbrowne61]

Wasn’t far off.

In the second half but first half, apart from first 10 minutes or so, was horrible.
We can’t play in patches and expect to win.

 

[Tonymontana]

Seyfarth 2 runs for 17 meters 👏

Can't believe this from a starting back rower, and one of the runs was from dummy half.

 

[Kelce68]

That might help us defend better, but won’t help our abysmal attack too much.
What are we going to try and win games 2 tries to 1 every week?

Our attack is warming nicely. We're not even a single game into the likely longer term halves pairing. They just put 5 line breaks, 2 tries, multiple held ups/short efforts, all in one half of footy, past one of the better defensive sides in the comp.

I think execution is woeful. Shape needs much more work. Bula needs to work on his timing.

But most of that will come with time now that we appear to have settled on a spine moving forward. Our biggest challenge looks just keeping them on the park.

 

[liltiger]

100% he was gonna go into the forwards and that’s probably a big reason why he left. Latu is special and can turn this club around

Seeing Latu run tonight, honestly he hasn't done anything at all yet. But it makes me personally feel fine about Galvin going.

 

[TYGA]

Please note T, Douehis not going anywhere, at least for a while.

Agree he’s our second best centre atm. Will lose his starting role after one NSW cup game from Taylan May.