Klemmer isn’t out of form, he’s cooked. It’s been a a very good career but as usual we get the arse end of it and he’s now a plodder at best.
LIVE GAME Round 19 vs. Sharks
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Halbrowne61
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Surely as professional footballers our team has a defensive plan for various parts of the field ? I remember Blocja saying once that Warren Ryan used to have a bad lab for toilet breaks !
We just turn up week after week and play some sort of ad lib defensive pattern, that hardly ever works, so we concede points, get frustrated, some one ends up in the bin when our opposition usually destroys us so by the time we’re back to 13 players it’s catch up time.
I watched a Facebook video of Spencer Leinu taking hit ups for the Roosters, I’ve never seen anything like that from our rabble.
Now is Robbo coaching that or does it just come from within the player ? Either way I’d love to replicate. There used to an old joke when I was playing about how you identified the backs and the forwards.
You take everyone out into the forest and those that run into the trees are forwards and those who run around them are backs.
Well I think we’ve got 17 backs playing for us .
Hope someone on the coaching reads this coz guys, it’s time to wake up. Get stuck in and toughen these guys up. Don’t even
let ‘em touch a footy until they physically run themselves into the ground.
Buy em some truck tyre tubes and let them spend one session a week just chasing and tackling them until they drop.
That used to be a good way to teach non tacklers how to improve.
We just turn up week after week and play some sort of ad lib defensive pattern, that hardly ever works, so we concede points, get frustrated, some one ends up in the bin when our opposition usually destroys us so by the time we’re back to 13 players it’s catch up time.
I watched a Facebook video of Spencer Leinu taking hit ups for the Roosters, I’ve never seen anything like that from our rabble.
Now is Robbo coaching that or does it just come from within the player ? Either way I’d love to replicate. There used to an old joke when I was playing about how you identified the backs and the forwards.
You take everyone out into the forest and those that run into the trees are forwards and those who run around them are backs.
Well I think we’ve got 17 backs playing for us .
Hope someone on the coaching reads this coz guys, it’s time to wake up. Get stuck in and toughen these guys up. Don’t even
let ‘em touch a footy until they physically run themselves into the ground.
Buy em some truck tyre tubes and let them spend one session a week just chasing and tackling them until they drop.
That used to be a good way to teach non tacklers how to improve.
Halbrowne61
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“ Blocka used to say Warren Ryan had a plan for toilet breaks”.
Halbrowne61
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Have a look Silverfernsport.com.au
“ Tackle Tube “
If they can’t tackle that will teach them.
Believe me it works !!!
“ Tackle Tube “
If they can’t tackle that will teach them.
Believe me it works !!!
TSP
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In my union days, for my first season, the PE teacher threw a footy at me and said I was to carry it around all week (even at home) and report to training on Wednesday night.
“ Put in under your pillow each night” he said.
sounds like wt recruitment I know!
We had the fear in those days and I definitely carried it around a bit at school.
Then when they booted me from the forwards and made me a half, I’d get sworn at for bad passes. A lot of pressure at half, can’t hide anywhere like the forwards lol.
But best to cheap shot a forward with his back turned, nothing too bad. They don’t feel it anyway.
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BrendonWT
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dragons are getting the tigers treatment right now being penalised against for breathing
crazycat
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I was thinking Lobb really needs to up his game. Heck both Lobb and Staines clearly can't defend.
We really REALLY need Olam back at Center. AD had a decent game, I am almost tempted to pick him on the wing just because he would upgrade the defense there.
Which is REALLY REALLY BAD.
Clearly our backline is Swiss cheese. This leads to no pressure. No pressure and the other team will just walk all over us.
Agree, line speed, chasing kicks and tackling are more about commitment and intent. Sadly when teams lose this, it is usually a sign of deeper problems.
Yep, that's about it. Twal and Seyfarth might be added on effort, but realistically they are fringe first graders. I gave up watching the game on Friday, in fact I do this now most weeks - just so sick of it, but I might watch this week to see how young Mason goes. How has he been going?
I'm waiting on the Bears to return.
BirchgroveTigers
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Agree with that judgement on who is good but imo we realistically need three players + Turuva & Luai to have a chance of the 8.
Something like this for next year…
1. Bula
2. Turuva
3. Olam
4. Douiehi
5. New signing
6. Galvin
7. Luai
8. Stef (4 signings if he leave)
9. Api
10. Pole
11. Fainu
12. New signing
13. New signing
14. Da Silva or L. Fainu
15. Twal
16. Seyfarth or Klemmer
17. Bateman
18. Da Silva or L. Fainu
19. Klemmer or Seyfarth
20. Staines
21. To’a
22. Sione Fainu
23. Matamua
24. Miller
25. Mason
We only have one spot at the moment for next year so to do that we need to try and move on Naden, Tumeth and Sullivan (or Klemmer). Obviously there’s still plenty of players we could improve on in that above list but if we’re able to do that I think we’d at least have a chance.
Would really be going hard for a big winger who can help out yardage out of our end above as first priority. If we can markedly improve that (Turuva will help but we need more of an improvement that what just he will bring) it will then take pressure of our forwards as well.
Not just Benji though Droppy05.
We've got a former 1st grade coach with plenty of experience as assistant coach. What the hell does he do to earn his $$$?
Then there's 2 former top players in Heighington and Farah to help out. What on earth do they add to helping our blokes to be better players and instill the unique Tigers spirit???... into our Team? Lol!!!
One of the commentators said the way they defend is due to a lack of self-confidence.
If Benji can't instill that confidence they've got to get a friggin Sport Psychologist in to help.
I've just cancelled my Kayo due to our mob being too hard and depressing to watch.
I think we seen it again today , the ref killed the knights early on , and they never recovered. Manly got away with a forward pass with the ref right in line then, he takes a good try of the knights , manly got penalties every time coming out of there half , not saying that the eagles should not have won , but the ref done a job on the knights
For a team that I reckon is playing with little or no confidence to start with, Api's binning makes it just that much harder to hang in there and keep battling Imo.
But don't forget BrendonWT, 3 of those sin bins should NOT have been, so that puts us back to 11.
Still not good enough though.
