Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Halbrowne61 said:
Why are we always looking for a saviour ?
It’s a team game and no one person is going to do it. Just watched the replay and both our attacking and defensive structures were very poor.
No real cohesion which is the same as previous years. Good to see Benji has rolled out his canned press conference face, I hope that was just a front for what must have been very disappointing for him. I know he has to defend the team, but boy it must have hurt inside.
Anyway, onward and upward they say. We’ve knocked off Parra a bit recently and they have no Moses.
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If like to answer...

It isn't we are always looking for a saviour.
its we've had deficiencies for a very long time that are not addressed.

Yes, we've overhauled our pack.
BUT, we've lacked decent centres since Simona left...

Taylan May would be a huge inclusion and go towards improving this. Is he the saviour? No chance. But we've seen what he can offer on the field and he's better than Faatape, Toa and AD.

We've seen post after post saying we need a backrower and a strike centre. This is what will improve our squad and hopefully allow us to win more games. There isn't 1 person that can save this team, it's a collective effort and the way forward is to ensure the right people are in the right positions.
 
Anyway, next year, maybe even towards the end of this year.....

Our backline could look like;

1. Jahream Bula 🇫🇯
2. Sunia Turuva 🇫🇯
3. Taylan May 🇼🇸
4. Heamasi Makasini 🇹🇴
5. Jeral Skelton 🇼🇸

That's actually a really well balanced backline with some strike and if Makasini continually developes like we hope, we've got a star on our hands.
 
Demps said:
Anyway, next year, maybe even towards the end of this year.....

Our backline could look like;

1. Jahream Bula 🇫🇯
2. Sunia Turuva 🇫🇯
3. Taylan May 🇼🇸
4. Heamasi Makasini 🇹🇴
5. Jeral Skelton 🇼🇸

That's actually a really well balanced backline with some strike and if Makasini continually developes like we hope, we've got a star on our hands.
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As usual, good comments D but have a go at solving our backline issues, this week.
I’ll start things off;
1. Bula
2. Turuva
3. Skelton
4. Toa
5. Douehi ( the new Ross Conlon or Darrel Halligan - poor tackler, fair runner but above average goal kicker).
What do you think ?
 
Demps said:
Anyway, next year, maybe even towards the end of this year.....

Our backline could look like;

1. Jahream Bula 🇫🇯
2. Sunia Turuva 🇫🇯
3. Taylan May 🇼🇸
4. Heamasi Makasini 🇹🇴
5. Jeral Skelton 🇼🇸

That's actually a really well balanced backline with some strike and if Makasini continually developes like we hope, we've got a star on our hands.
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Flag Appreciation Thread? 😎
Looks shiny but there are still???
But you add in 6. Gal/Latu and 7. JL 8. May, 9. Api, and you are starting to look good.
Defence wins games?
 
Halbrowne61 said:
As usual, good comments D but have a go at solving our backline issues, this week.
I’ll start things off;
1. Bula
2. Turuva
3. Skelton
4. Toa
5. Douehi ( the new Ross Conlon or Darrel Halligan - poor tackler, fair runner but above average goal kicker).
What do you think ?
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Bula is straight back in, obviously.

Not sold on Toa but I think Benji likes him.
Skelton, too good on the wing. He stays.

1. Bula
2. Turuva
3. Toa / Faatape
4. ADizzle
5. Skelly
 
Demps said:
Bula is straight back in, obviously.

Not sold on Toa but I think Benji likes him.
Skelton, too good on the wing. He stays.

1. Bula
2. Turuva
3. Toa / Faatape
4. ADizzle
5. Skelly
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But that’s almost the same as last night and we never looked like making breaks.
Plenty for the coaching brains trust to think about after video session.
 
Halbrowne61 said:
But that’s almost the same as last night and we never looked like making breaks.
Plenty for the coaching brains trust to think about after video session.
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Yep, sadly...

I'm hoping Gal x Luai gel and Luai takes more control of the game.

Puts his backs in space.
I'm also hoping we hear about what's next for Taylans future too and he's woken up to himself.
 
Demps said:
Yep, sadly...

I'm hoping Gal x Luai gel and Luai takes more control of the game.

Puts his backs in space.
I'm also hoping we hear about what's next for Taylans future too and he's woken up to himself.
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They say doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I’m putting Luai’s game down to missing the trials and first game back …no such excuse for Gal …I don’t like his grubber/ attacking kick game … maybe Luai should be running with this most of the time …
 
Demps said:
Yep, sadly...

I'm hoping Gal x Luai gel and Luai takes more control of the game.

Puts his backs in space.
I'm also hoping we hear about what's next for Taylans future too and he's woken up to himself.
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I think our halves desperately need a link man 13 to straighten the attack and open up space for them. Even though Twal was one of our best, this workmanlike 13 really affects our attack. The thing is Benji doesn't seem to think this way at all. Even when Bird came on, he just played like a front rower. With the modern day players being so fit and well drilled, it's to much to expect the halves to strip defences on their own, they need help from a clever 9 and a clever 13
 
Demps said:
Anyway, next year, maybe even towards the end of this year.....

Our backline could look like;

1. Jahream Bula 🇫🇯
2. Sunia Turuva 🇫🇯
3. Taylan May 🇼🇸
4. Heamasi Makasini 🇹🇴
5. Jeral Skelton 🇼🇸

That's actually a really well balanced backline with some strike and if Makasini continually developes like we hope, we've got a star on our hands.
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Let’s hope we sort out our halves or who ever is on the right will catch a cold
 
Demps said:
Yep, sadly...

I'm hoping Gal x Luai gel and Luai takes more control of the game.

Puts his backs in space.
I'm also hoping we hear about what's next for Taylans future too and he's woken up to himself.
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It says alot though that we hope May gets off to give some faith even after we spent over $2m on backline upgrades in the off season already to which none of them were used in attack for game 1.

I actually think Lock and Backrow is a bigger problem for us than center though.

I will give the team time to gel especially because it was game 1 for some of them and without Bula/Api the shape will be different.
 
1eyedmel said:
We lacked in faster play the balls, which seems to be a year in year out problem that needs to be coached more into this team to get on the front foot. We were the better team in the first half,but simply did not play for the 80 minutes to come away with the win once again.
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It is this exactly .. Doughi stands up slow and casually walks over the ball , never thinking of the team or momentum .. it is so dumb and or selfish, also the tackle style of trying to hold the player up instead of hitting hard in defence a la Seyfarth means that the opposition never fears being hurt in the tackle so they all start looking like Arthur Beetson ,, they have to start throwing them on the ground, hard .. apart from that they really tried hard and they have a lot to work with IMO ..
 
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KCtiger said:
50 missed tackles ain’t ideal but when we only concede 10 who cares


Only giving up 10 should be enough to win a game
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Conceding 10 points was lucky point wise, but the flow on effect of missing so many outweighs the actual points scored against us e.g. scrambling defence is tiring, extra field position gained by the opposition puts more pressure on our attack.
 
Demps said:
Anyway, next year, maybe even towards the end of this year.....

Our backline could look like;

1. Jahream Bula 🇫🇯
2. Sunia Turuva 🇫🇯
3. Taylan May 🇼🇸
4. Heamasi Makasini 🇹🇴
5. Jeral Skelton 🇼🇸

That's actually a really well balanced backline with some strike and if Makasini continually developes like we hope, we've got a star on our hands.
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Why do people always look forward to the (next year) as we have been doing this now for years and years. I just can’t understand how we have not identified that our centre position is and has been so weak for years. And now we have to wait for (another year) please.
 
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