Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Harvey]

Agree bro.. Samuela didn't take a backward
step but got dumped everytime by a rugged QLD
pack. Sanders & Fainu would be a dream come
true with all our juniors coming up. Faagutu
is an absolute dawg. The kid has got it 100

Samuela looks like another of those that dominated kids with his size. He will get found out playing against the men

 

[hank37w]

Yep. Two fast wingers would make a massive difference. Maybe Tupou can fill one spot but he isn't real quick. We desperately need Staines in the team.

Around 73 minutes in when Young makes a break for the try that Gamble scores, Tupou either doesn't even try to chase or is slower than I am.

 

[Demps]

Samuela looks like another of those that dominated kids with his size. He will get found out playing against the men

Wakeham made him cry

 

[TurnStyle]

If the Bulldogs are looking to move on Jake LaMotta he'd be a good get for our centres.

Lol... Jake LaMotta... Would probably still shine in the current side and he's been dead how many years?!

Maybe even Robert deNiro (Raging Bull)...?

 

[TurnStyle]

Around 73 minutes in when Young makes a break for the try that Gamble scores, Tupou either doesn't even try to chase or is slower than I am.

Yep. I posted about that earlier: One of the worst displays of lack of effort I think I've ever seen on an NRL field. 😦

 

[tony soprano]

Samuela looks like another of those that dominated kids with his size. He will get found out playing against the men

Don't think he usually front row. He seems very fit.

 

[hank37w]

Yep. I posted about that earlier: One of the worst displays of lack of effort I think I've ever seen on an NRL field. 😦

Yeah, saw that after I posted, so definitely not my imagination.

 

[Todd Packer]

Lol... Jake LaMotta... Would probably still shine in the current side and he's been dead how many years?!

Maybe even Robert deNiro (Raging Bull)...?

LaMotta . Alamoti......same same

 

[TigerNeddyK]

Samuela looks like another of those that dominated kids with his size. He will get found out playing against the men

I didn’t see that at all.. I saw a captain trying to lead his Junior rep team by example .. by running hard and not taking a backward step . A guy that played in the halves for a lot of his life and that put some of the skill he has away in order to play the role his team requires .. SMDH 😳

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

Bring Alan back 🔥

I was thinking the same. Or does he despise the club like so many other ex-players? Did the club sack him when he was charged with DV?

 

[TurnStyle]

LaMotta . Alamoti......same same

I knew. Wasn't having a go - just a laugh. 😊

 

[tigerballs]

I agree that's fundamentally what it is. I would love to see the latest Left vs Centre vs Right tries conceded stats, because I don't think we've let in many tries up the guts (1 ordinary one last night).

Competing in the middle and making metres down the middle are not our major concern, in fact I think we are on a very good trajectory to compete with most forward packs in the comp with a rotation of Stefano-Api-Klemmer-IP-Bateman-Pole-Blore-Twal... Seyfarth does a job, but I'd want one more decent prop to sub in (that being said, two weeks in a row the injection of Blore and Twal turned our energy around into half-time).

But as soon as the opposition shifts and we get caught out - we won't win another match until that gets fixed. You can't just have the Knights halves running sideways to get the ball out to Ponga, then we panic and the winger scores in the corner. The Knights are not a great side, but they obviously practised their shift play and knew to use it at every possible opportunity, including going back to that play more than once per set, if it didn't work out the first time.

And after leaking several tries down our RHS, Knights shift to our left and I have this thought "oh maybe the LHS will cover this" and nope, they are as brittle as the other edge. The halves cannot defend, the centres and wing both make bad decisions and turn like ocean liners. Watching Dom Young sprint down a sideline and Talau and Tupou look like sloths in comparision - embarrassing.

Also our halves absolutely unable to put anything together in attack, to mount pressure on the opposition. Knights didn't even bother for short kick-offs, they "backed their defence" as the commentators said. Well not really, they simply bet against our impotent attack.

Knights were just waiting for the opportunity to defuse our rubbish kicks and then shift wide as soon as possible. Never in any real doubt.

Take a look at our attack. There's absolutely no structure at all. We never construct those wide sweeping plays from a short blind and we never even attempt a set play from a scrum or tap situation. If we're not practicing structured attack then we're not practicing defending against it in opposed sessions. I was all for giving this coaching setup a decent go but we're not progressing, either offensively or defensively.

 

[Kaito]

Samuela looks like another of those that dominated kids with his size. He will get found out playing against the men

Mate, he'll fill out in due time. Got to love how
he goes about his biz though. Very eager!

 

[vlad]

https://www.zerotackle.com/club-closes-in-on-signing-sharks-back-for-remainder-of-season-159721/amp/

Castleford 2nd last in the ESL getting Kayal Iro from the Sharks ?

Surely worth looking at here

 

[Harvey]

Seriously is Sezer any better than Adam Clune? I reckon Clune would move across the ground faster than Sezer and has just as good passing, kicking & defensive game. Be interesting if he tore the Magpies a new one in Cup tonight.

Sezer was garbage in his previous NRL stints. He hasn't improved, just got older

 

[Tigerbenb]

Oh yes, I bought flights earlier this year, to see the tigers play the raiders in Canberra.

Sit in the cold watch the tigers get spanked.

Don’t be like me .

 

[851]

I care
- I care that he was bought at all…
He’s puss, no matter where he plays…

His effort is non existant, the only time I’ve seen him have a go was when he swore at Lomax after getting sent

I was against re-signing Kepoa and Toa, I said at the time it was a stupid decision, I was very much in the minority

 

[vlad]

Sezer was garbage in his previous NRL stints. He hasn't improved, just got older

Sezer played in the 2019 grand final for the raiders . Can’t have been that bad

 

[liltiger]

Did you see Api in the sheds. He was disgusted.

Sheens in his post match comments said Api finished at pivot so that tells you how we were going. Reckon we might find Api at half next week.

 

[Halbrowne61]

Sheens in his post match comments said Api finished at pivot so that tells you how we were going. Reckon we might find Api at half next week.

Well let’s not forget that API and Wakeham were the Fiji halves in the WC so maybe a reunion.
Think I would have preferred Douehi and Moses - the Cedars connection, but not to be !