LIVE GAME Round 4 vs Warriors

[Wiz]

Great win - Latu looked good

I don’t know if there’s a player/half in the comp who can play direct at the line at pace and deliver a pass to his outside man on his chest every time as well as Latu can. Combine that with his run threat and wow.

 

[Tigerdazz2]

Fitness, execution and mental toughness will break our top 8 drought.

They outlasted the Warriors, had more stamina and importantly wanted that game more & as soon as they hit their mojo and played the way they want to play and Maddens kicking game were the difference.

Their fitness to start the season is amazing, they really must have had a brutal pre season! 😅

 

[tiger_one]

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Let's hope the Luai question is answered in the next few weeks.
Madden 7----Doueihi 6. They now have a 3 games opportunity to form a great combo.
And Latu to make it more complicated.
At the moment Luai is behind the 8 ball IMO.
Let's not forget Luai let Souths in for a try last week. His defence is not perfect either.

Douhei played well, and he is in the 17 but Luai playing 6 is a no brainer.. he also would have shone outside madden last night,,, maddens passes were perfectly spaced to be ran onto and gave Douhei time and space.. luai has played 5 grand finals and won 4 so of course he adds to our team…also happens to be the captain and sets the tone of our defence

 

[stephen]

I have noticed that he has started to get in the face of the opposition enforcers by niggling them a little in tackles

Yeah. Def playing with a harder edge this season.

 

[Jolls]

All those AD haters stick that in your pipe @Jolls put that in your analysis. What a win!!! No one gave us a hope, best win in years!! Twalenator!!! 😍

🤣 🤣 🤣 I'm not an AD hater and my opinion, based on analysis, was, prior to the pre season, that he wasn't the best choice for us as 7. He played well last night and he may have had 7 on his back - but that is not the role he played. Jock was the 7 and hi digging deep into the line and bringing AD onto the ball worked wonders. If you look at the most of the breaks he made it was a combination of the postioning and when and where the ball was delivered to him by Madden for the most part.

He has addressed his defence and it appears his attitude - but wearing the 7 doesn't make him a half - he has too many deficiences to be a long term 7.

 

[Jolls]

Our forwards won this game for us. I don't think I've seen better first contact technique across 80 minutes from a WT side. Well maybe 70 minutes lol. Tackling was superb, and you can see the side is also in excellent physical condition, because we really grew into that match as it went on.

Bench rotation has changed 2 games for us in a row now. Benji and the coaching team deserve credit for finally getting a tune out of Royce Hunt. (its like a new signing) Alex Twal is also going beyond being 'the new Skando.' He was superb.

Jock Madden did a great job, but he's gotta do more to enter the conversation as a starting half. He did his job, solid kicking game but not superior to AD. AD tho, goodness me what a natural footy player he is. I think the decision to drop Skelton was the right one too.

How can you say his kicking was not superior to AD - he found the grass on several occasions and for the most part his kicks were well directed. If Tavana was in the right spot he could have had two more!