LIVE GAME Round 17v Manly

[TSP]

Now is your big chance to take up the offer of a jv with kea in new zealand.

I’d merge with the silver ferns at this point. More heart than most of our pack.

 

[Halbrowne61]

It’s nothing personal, it’s just that his grand plan hasn’t worked.

Another revival bites the dust.

We fell for it again.

It’s probably time HBG admitted they can’t do football. They can’t identity and recruit the right people to take us forward.

Cut their ties, give the club back to the members and let us elect smart people to take up the challenge.

We can’t be worse than the corporate bogans in charge now.

The spoon is the spoon.

You mean we need another 5 year plan !
Pleeeeeeese no, no,no. I’m running out of time.

 

[BZN]

I agree re Benji. But let’s be realistic, the Club should quit unless HBG start pouring serious money in. Until they do that, the club will continue to be 17th in both results and all the financial indicators.

I reckon its about time for the balmain side of the jv to start contributing more $$$

 

[Needaname]

Terrell is great but [This word has been automatically removed] me watching him get up and play the ball while yapping to the ref for 10 seconds irks me to no end. Mate just get on with it you play for the Tigers anyways you won't get a set restart. Just [This word has been automatically removed]s up our attack even more

Probably has the slowest play the ball in the comp and won’t play origin until he recognises he needs to play the game at speed.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

Next week has to be this doesn’t it …

1 Turuva
2 Staines
3 To’a
4 Naden
5 Skelton
6 Latu
7 Doeuihi
13 Twal
12 Sukkar
11 Samuela
10 Sione
9 Hope
8 May

14 Murray or TDS
15 Pole
16 Seyfarth
17 Bird

 

[innsaneink]

It’s nothing personal, it’s just that his grand plan hasn’t worked.

Another revival bites the dust.

We fell for it again.

It’s probably time HBG admitted they can’t do football. They can’t identity and recruit the right people to take us forward.

Cut their ties, give the club back to the members and let us elect smart people to take up the challenge.

We can’t be worse than the corporate bogans in charge now.

The spoon is the spoon.

HBG dont care if they admit they can do football or not.
Theyre not 100% interested...Ashfield has never given a shit about the football side of things...and they never will

 

[Needaname]

Ohhhh and worst of all bloody smug cronk and not funny Voss to talk us through the game. Yes Voss, bring up the bbq again, that is hilarious. And tell us again how bad the game is, because everyone's here to entertain you, and they're all just out there to setup one liners for you so you can go off on tangents rather than watching the game...boy, and I was going on about how the tigers have declined in play...Vossy, you are the worst!

Yeah I think it’s a bit rich that he judges us within the call. Warren Smith does it too. I don’t notice other teams coping a hammering from the Commentators as well as the opposition as much as us.

 

[Needaname]

They didn't play well, but it was obvious this was all about their preparation. No player knew their role. Players aren't given a chance to succeed in that situation.

Coaches like Jason Taylor and Madge almost felt too rigid in their structure, but they had one, you could see intent. What was our team trying to achieve tonight? Where were the targets? Who played what position? So players were poor, and I hate blaming coaches, but this result was coaching.

Telling though isn’t it when our recently recruited star five eight admits in our press conferences that he hasn’t spent much time at all in combination with another of his halves. I’m pretty certain Latu wasn’t injured in the preseason maybe Luai was for a bit but wtf are they doing each week.
Other teams mention ‘they train for it’ when the team has to go through a reshuffle in game, or when first choice players are out. Do we?

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Yeah I think it’s a bit rich that he judges us within the call. Warren Smith does it too. I don’t notice other teams coping a hammering from the Commentators as well as the opposition as much as us.

I don’t like it when certain commentators look down their noses at us *cough* Cronk *cough*. But you can’t say we don’t bring it on ourselves. We lurch from one drama to another and are perennial cellar dwellers. Those things don’t make you command much respect. If we became successful, a lot of the media’s perception would change, cos they would have nothing to report anymore. How many clubs in the headlines are ever top of the table?

 

[Droppy05]

Yeah I think it’s a bit rich that he judges us within the call. Warren Smith does it too. I don’t notice other teams coping a hammering from the Commentators as well as the opposition as much as us.

There no teams as bad as ours on an ongoing basis as WT. 3 spoons.

 

[Needaname]

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I got these vibes from that presser

Was that in a press conference?

 

[Droppy05]

Was that in a press conference?

No, but should have been.

 

[Needaname]

No, but should have been.

No ours, I mean Elliot’s panthers one?

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Was that in a press conference?

Yeah, when he coached the Panthers. He’d been under the pump for weeks, and after another loss, walked in and pulled his tie over his head, and said something to the affect of “How’s that?”. Wasn’t much of a coach but had a sense of humour.

 

[magpies forever]

Meninga and Gardiner are also in another league to our coaching team.

I'd love to get Gardiner back here.

 

[BZN]

It was the kids who had control of the team tonight and the kids who were horrible . Luke , Mason , TDS, Samuela got impatient and frustrated and started looking for shots when making the tackle was what’s required … you can’t get up there and stick the boot in … they haven’t achieved enough yet to have a foundation of “I’m a gun … this is just constructive criticism”
They’re guaranteed to interpret it as “I’m not good enough for this level “
It just shows why the club was after another half , and looking for spine depth . The kids clearly have talent , and they have a coach who wants to give them time to develop … I’m just not sure if the team keeps losing that the board and exco will have the patience with Benji .
I know why the attack is shit .. and I’m sure Benji does as well .
They spent the whole offseason playing Lachie as the sweeping link man , Bula hard right and luai hard left .
And unconventional style because 1 player was best suited in that role .
Now he’s pissed off ,
Every single member of the spine , has now had to adapt and change the way the team has trained and the combinations built .
So Bula is now doing the sweeping , luai is playing closer to the ruck , and Fainu is slowly being integrated z
So it looks clunky . Because it is … just like it was for the first 5 rounds … then they figured it out then .. then pencil neck became a dog , and it’s like the whole team had to go back to week 1 only with zero pre-season . It’s caused so much damage.
[This word has been automatically removed] the bulldogs and Lachlan Galvin ! Bunch of rats …

I like those words "constructive criticism".

 

[Needaname]

Yeah, when he coached the Panthers. He’d been under the pump for weeks, and after another loss, walked in and pulled his tie over his head, and said something to the affect of “How’s that?”. Wasn’t much of a coach but had a sense of humour.

I heard one of the first things Gus did when he arrived at Penrith was sit down Matt Elliot and ask him to explain how he plans to coach the side to play that season. It was apparently so convoluted that he pretty much sacked him on the spot.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I heard one of the first things Gus did when he arrived at Penrith was sit down Matt Elliot and ask him to explain how he plans to coach the side to play that season. It was apparently so convoluted that he pretty much sacked him on the spot.

I thought he was already gone once Gus got there. I know the only reason Gus went there in the first place is cos they failed to lure Sheens from us.

 

[Needaname]

I thought he was already gone once Gus got there. I know the only reason Gus went there in the first place is cos they failed to lure Sheens from us.

I thought Sheens was sought after from when Gus was in the position and after the rejection turned to Ivan at the Wahs. Didn’t realise it was before Gus.

 

[Needaname]

I thought he was already gone once Gus got there. I know the only reason Gus went there in the first place is cos they failed to lure Sheens from us.

The word was that Matt Elliot was a great guy but as a coach, just struggled to get his message across to the players. So Gus did some investigating and what was suspected was confirmed by his meeting.