LIVE GAME Round 9 versus Sharks

[Demps]

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[Halbrowne61]

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Well he certainly adds some bite in attack and that will be sorely missed.
We had a good run with injuries but it sure has come back to bite us.
Will be interesting at 4 pm Tuesday to see what the team is for next week.

 

[crazycat]

Mate, TOA was a gotdamn turnstile, tavana made errors but he was trying his heart out, Toa just left him alone and isolated and platted the game of a deadset bludger… it was pathetic

Yea I am agreeing with you Mate.

Toa has been our first grader for how many years now?
3, 4.


Tavana has errors in his game but he is still counting the number of games he played on his fingers. Put him beside Turuva or Skelton and our line will hold.

Some here say Benji can't coach. I want to see how he handles this. Clearly Toa isn't up to the standard and having Latu/Skelton sit and do nothing wasn't the right play.

 

[clontarfkid]

Its clear that some players just arent nrl stamdard
Throw in a few injuries to key players,and were a bottom 4 team
So thats where were heading
Need to clean out the mediocrity, and having already consolidated the core of the top 13 lets not overpa just because we cam
Need more quality to win anything in September

 

[TT 01]

I am really worried about Sam F - I reckon a foot injury Lisfranc and if so he could be gone a long time

 

[lathami]

Season over? This seems a bit dramatic

No team in over 100 years of rugby league has ever won a comp after conceding 50 points in a game. Yes, u can say, there’s always a first, but history doesn’t back that.
All from a really bad call by Benji to not replace s player who’s confidence was obviously shot.
Watch the game again if u dare (I won’t), u will see that nearly all attacking play further guppies came from a Tavana error.

 

[Spartan117]

We need to show some effort.

This didn't happen tonight.
Sione, Starford & Tavana all let us down.

I would Add Laui also

Batman didnt live up to the promises

 

[crazycat]

Tavana has looked good in his first few games though and he was a weapon under the high ball
he didnt get to show it today though
skelton is bad as well we have 2 good wingers those should of been never changed

It's not that Skelton is perfect.
It's that he has been better then any other winger bar Turuva.
Turuva has really helped lock down the backline defense. Moving him to fullback clearly is a mistake.

Skelton at least doesn't turnstyle.

We changed too many positions in the backrow today. Combos lost and we got done.

 

[Spacecub]

Its clear that some players just arent nrl stamdard
Throw in a few injuries to key players,and were a bottom 4 team
So thats where were heading
Need to clean out the mediocrity, and having already consolidated the core of the top 13 lets not overpa just because we cam
Need more quality to win anything in September

Unfortunately clontarf we are stuck with a showpony taking up 1.2m for another 18 months today showed we are still carrying nsw cup standard players in 1st grade injuries are now hammering us and we simply don't have quality depth, plus some of Marshall's selections don't help

 

[liltiger]

This is the truth mate . Toa is used to KPP and AD making all his tackles , a making all his decisions and telling him where to be . When he needs to lead the edge . Look what happens . That’s th worst centre game I’ve ever seen defensively . The same level as when Feledy played there a couple of years ago . And toa has played 100 games of nrl . Disgusting .

Think it was Kyle Lovett under Jason Taylor against the Panthers one year, was a secondrower and Taylor had him in the centres covering for an injury i think, Panthers put the poor guy to the sword, he tried his best but wasnt a centre. Was obvious to everyone he was struggling except Taylor. Meanwhile we had Chris Lawrance in the second row who could have slotted in instead. Taylor got absolutly panned for it after the game.

 

[lathami]

With our injuries, I didn’t expect to win. But what a bad performance. That’s unexceptionable, but the fish stinks from the head down! That’s u Benji

 

[liltiger]

No depth is the issue once again. The Broncos repeatedly, Canberra yesterday and some other teams also have put in great performances without their main troops. First time we’re under strength this year and this is what we get. It’s pretty disappointing tbh, I thought we were different this season.

Flippedy, not that we dont have the depth to cover, we do. Problem we have atm is with Douhi and Fainu out our 5 top performers week in and week out are on the sideline. We can cover 2 maybe 3 if the stars align during the game. But im not too sure many teams wouldnt really struggle with their top 5 performers on the side line. Granted though Fainu had a shocker tonight.

 

[Telltails]

Got to write off and move on.

 

[Wezt]

Why are people pilling on Luai, he was involved in our only two tries.

Our forwards weren’t going forward in the second half and Tavana was dropping the ball in every aerial contest

 

[clontarfkid]

Unfortunately clontarf we are stuck with a showpony taking up 1.2m for another 18 months today showed we are still carrying nsw cup standard players in 1st grade injuries are now hammering us and we simply don't have quality depth, plus some of Marshall's selections don't help

I'm with you
His performance today was invisible..and n one has called him out
We're still paying him a truckload
Hope he hasn't clocked off

 

[mtd#2]

The stats dont paint a pretty picture.

Missed tackles
Luai - 4
Hunt - 4
Toa -3
Hope - 3
Twal - 3
Madden - 3
Pole - 2
Fainu - 2
Tavana -2

All run metres
Taylan May - 150
Laulili- 141
Terrell May - 115
Turuva - 103

I still cant get my head around how our forwards were dominated so badly.

 

[Gazman]

In hindsight may have been better if that training injury Luai had early in the week ruled him out of today’s match , we never survive dramas and this loss was in the making , just a shame when we come back to earth it’s always a crash and burn

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Why are people pilling on Luai, he was involved in our only two tries.

Our forwards weren’t going forward in the second half and Tavana was dropping the ball in every aerial contest

agree tavana stuffed up just about every opportunity he had.
Luai at least was involved in setting up tigers 2 tries

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

The stats dont paint a pretty picture.

Missed tackles
Luai - 4
Hunt - 4
Toa -3
Hope - 3
Twal - 3
Madden - 3
Pole - 2
Fainu - 2
Tavana -2

All run metres
Taylan May - 150
Laulili- 141
Terrell May - 115
Turuva - 103

I still cant get my head around how our forwards were dominated so badly.

even twal hardly misses a tackle and he missed 3

 

[wstigers11]

The stats dont paint a pretty picture.

Missed tackles
Luai - 4
Hunt - 4
Toa -3
Hope - 3
Twal - 3
Madden - 3
Pole - 2
Fainu - 2
Tavana -2

All run metres
Taylan May - 150
Laulili- 141
Terrell May - 115
Turuva - 103

I still cant get my head around how our forwards were dominated so badly.

Too much tackling we were pinned the whole half