Team to face the Raiders

[Russell]

Eisenhuth

Eisenhuth is the Jennings of the forwards.

Eisenhuth would address the issue of teams rolling through the middle of us when our starters come off...it's been an issue in both games..

Who do you suggest Russell

Eisenhuth

Eisenhuth is the Jennings of the forwards.

Eisenhuth would address the issue of teams rolling through the middle of us when our starters come off...it's been an issue in both games..

Who do you suggest Russell

Packer if fit, if not leave Clark there.

I would be shopping the Huth around. Maybe the Gulargambone wanderers maybe interested.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Eisenhuth

Eisenhuth is the Jennings of the forwards.

Eisenhuth would address the issue of teams rolling through the middle of us when our starters come off...it's been an issue in both games..

Who do you suggest Russell

Eisenhuth

Eisenhuth is the Jennings of the forwards.

Eisenhuth would address the issue of teams rolling through the middle of us when our starters come off...it's been an issue in both games..

Who do you suggest Russell

Packer if fit, if not leave Clark there.

I would be shopping the Huth around. Maybe the Gulargambone wanderers maybe interested.

What made you pick Gulargambone? Geez, been a long while since I've been around there.

 

[Russell]

Eisenhuth

Eisenhuth is the Jennings of the forwards.

Eisenhuth would address the issue of teams rolling through the middle of us when our starters come off...it's been an issue in both games..

Who do you suggest Russell

Eisenhuth

Eisenhuth is the Jennings of the forwards.

Eisenhuth would address the issue of teams rolling through the middle of us when our starters come off...it's been an issue in both games..

Who do you suggest Russell

Packer if fit, if not leave Clark there.

I would be shopping the Huth around. Maybe the Gulargambone wanderers maybe interested.

What made you pick Gulargambone? Geez, been a long while since I've been around there.

Me too. Last time for me, was one too many.

 

[TSupps05]

Time for a new bench

14. Reynolds/ Walters
15. Musgrove
16. Seyfarth
17. Chee-Kam

 

[Lukic]

1. Doueihi
2. Nofoaluma
3. Leilua
4. Mbye
5. Talau
6. Marshall
7. Brooks
8. Aloiai
9. Grant
10. Mikaele
11. Garner
12. Leilua
13. Twal

14. Musgrove
15. Walters
16. Seyfarth
17. Chee-Kam

I'd have both Marshall and Brooks on a very short leash though. To be honest I haven't been impressed with either at all and I think Reynolds could very prove an upgrade on both.

 

[Tiger_Steve]

Doueihi
Nofoaluma
Leilua
Mbye
Talau
Reynolds
Brooks
Mikaele
Grant
Packer
Garner
Leilua
Twal

Musgrove
Cheekam
Clark
Walters

Interesting Steve - no Aloiai

That’s why I don’t pick teams! Memory loss - swap him for Mikaele who goes to bench - exit Clark

 

[tigerballs]

There’s not gonna be mass changes, three at most. Our spine won’t be touched, it’ll mostly be the bench that gets changed I think. We really don’t have good players to bring into the team unfortunately and it’s too early to bring in more guys who have never played first grade

Tex Hoy, Bradman Best, Matt Burton, Harry Grant, guys with little to no first grade experience.

 

[Hangonaminute]

Don't know who to replace them with but...

Doo eei
Jennings
Mbye bye
Garner (don't know what's happened to him)
Clarke
Seyfarth
Are either not capable or average or just playing like busteds

 

[momo_amp_medo]

Chee Kam for Jennings.
Garner to bench.
Packer, Musgrove, Reynolds into 17.
Pick your choice who goes out and where.

 

[Fraze23]

Looking at our squad I don't know how we can fix this. The fact there is no reserve grade makes it even more difficult as the blokes you are bringing in don't have any miles in their legs. Canberra coming off a heavy defeat will be out for blood. I can see them putting 50 on us this weekend.

 

[JC99]

There’s not gonna be mass changes, three at most. Our spine won’t be touched, it’ll mostly be the bench that gets changed I think. We really don’t have good players to bring into the team unfortunately and it’s too early to bring in more guys who have never played first grade

Tex Hoy, Bradman Best, Matt Burton, Harry Grant, guys with little to no first grade experience.

What young guys do we have that are ready? Best and Grant are regarded as future Australian reps... we’ve got some good young guys but not sure we have guys that could burst into the scene like the others. Talau was our best bet but he’s shown he’s not ready for first grade yet.

 

[jirskyr]

Tommy T for Jennings Or Thomo if he still at the club
Musgrove for Seyfarth
Would be probably the only likely changes

Wow that's going to change things!

You seem to think we have a bunch of terrific players waiting in the wings to take over. There are very few changes you can really make, we have a couple forwards you could play but the rest are other over the hill blokes about to retire or guys who have never played first grade.

If we keep going crap I’m happy to make mass changes and give a lot of other guys a shot but at this point it’s not the right time yet I think. The bench definitely needs changing and Jennings dropped but what else can you do? What changes would you make?

Isn't Jennings tall, reliable, safe under the high ball and makes a 100m+ a game...?

Do you add anything of significance to this forum or just chime in with smart ass comments. Never seen you add anything of substance in any threads.

Jennings was good last week and didn’t deserve to get dropped. This week he had a shocker and shouldn’t play next week - but I don’t believe Cory Thompson does that much better

lol..don't be upset...debate the post..

So we drop on a week to week basis ..that will work building consistancy..

If non-performers aren't dropped how are they held accountable?

They aren't, and there in lies our problem, Madge needs to grow a set and wield the axe on the golden children

Just like Justin Holbrook did at the Titans last week.

Exactly mate, he sacked a host of players, 3 high paid players, 1 international and 2 origin players, that is what we need, he took a risk and got the rewards, Pay did the same as well

Problem is guys you can only do that once or twice. Very many sides can get up for one game or another - Tigers can do it too; but the issue isn't winning that odd game where you try hard. The issue is consistency over 24 rounds. In reality you can't cut 3-4 experienced players every few weeks and think that will get you to the finals, nor can you think dropping those players changes all performances from then on.

The realistic perspective on last night, I believe, is Titans played reasonably well. You have to ignore the history and the losing streak, you can only judge them on how well they were in that game. We weren't playing Titans Rd 24 2019 or Rd 1 2020, so previous performances are irrelevant on the day.

Tigers were average. If we'd been a bit better we would have won, but our attack was uneven, our kicking game was horrible, we made some really key errors and generally our tempo was ordinary in attack and defence. Titans defended pretty well all game and their line speed was superior to ours, to good effect. Our wide Titans really chopped our backs down.

And all that being said, Tigers still should/could have won, despite playing poorly, it was only a fluke kick bounce and a lack of late-game application that lost it. Titans are probably a better team right now than most people give them credit.

Finally - it's really hard to tell how teams are going right now. Warriors were quite good against Dragons (despite it being Dragons) but didn't feature at all against Penrith. Sharkies were poor against Tigers but rallied against Cowboys, who themselves were very poor after a good result against Titans. Broncos had their arse kicked 2 weeks in a row. Raiders smothered Melbourne but then got rolled by Knights, who themselves couldn't overcome Penrith last week. Very uneven performances across the board.

 

[tigerballs]

There’s not gonna be mass changes, three at most. Our spine won’t be touched, it’ll mostly be the bench that gets changed I think. We really don’t have good players to bring into the team unfortunately and it’s too early to bring in more guys who have never played first grade

Tex Hoy, Bradman Best, Matt Burton, Harry Grant, guys with little to no first grade experience.

What young guys do we have that are ready? Best and Grant are regarded as future Australian reps... we’ve got some good young guys but not sure we have guys that could burst into the scene like the others. Talau was our best bet but he’s shown he’s not ready for first grade yet.

My point is you never know until you try. I'll guarantee there's a kid in CC with no NRL experience who is better than our player with the most NRL experience.

 

[jadtiger]

There’s not gonna be mass changes, three at most. Our spine won’t be touched, it’ll mostly be the bench that gets changed I think. We really don’t have good players to bring into the team unfortunately and it’s too early to bring in more guys who have never played first grade

Tex Hoy, Bradman Best, Matt Burton, Harry Grant, guys with little to no first grade experience.

What young guys do we have that are ready? Best and Grant are regarded as future Australian reps... we’ve got some good young guys but not sure we have guys that could burst into the scene like the others. Talau was our best bet but he’s shown he’s not ready for first grade yet.

My point is you never know until you try. I'll guarantee there's a kid in CC with no NRL experience who is better than our player with the most NRL experience.

There are always players in lower grades or junior football looking for an opportunity at a club who will appreciate them.I honestly believe that is the approach Madge is trying to get here.Hopefully no more blokes looking for pensions

 

[tigerballs]

Tommy T for Jennings Or Thomo if he still at the club
Musgrove for Seyfarth
Would be probably the only likely changes

Wow that's going to change things!

You seem to think we have a bunch of terrific players waiting in the wings to take over. There are very few changes you can really make, we have a couple forwards you could play but the rest are other over the hill blokes about to retire or guys who have never played first grade.

If we keep going crap I’m happy to make mass changes and give a lot of other guys a shot but at this point it’s not the right time yet I think. The bench definitely needs changing and Jennings dropped but what else can you do? What changes would you make?

Isn't Jennings tall, reliable, safe under the high ball and makes a 100m+ a game...?

Do you add anything of significance to this forum or just chime in with smart ass comments. Never seen you add anything of substance in any threads.

Jennings was good last week and didn’t deserve to get dropped. This week he had a shocker and shouldn’t play next week - but I don’t believe Cory Thompson does that much better

lol..don't be upset...debate the post..

So we drop on a week to week basis ..that will work building consistancy..

If non-performers aren't dropped how are they held accountable?

They aren't, and there in lies our problem, Madge needs to grow a set and wield the axe on the golden children

Just like Justin Holbrook did at the Titans last week.

Exactly mate, he sacked a host of players, 3 high paid players, 1 international and 2 origin players, that is what we need, he took a risk and got the rewards, Pay did the same as well

Problem is guys you can only do that once or twice. Very many sides can get up for one game or another - Tigers can do it too; but the issue isn't winning that odd game where you try hard. The issue is consistency over 24 rounds. In reality you can't cut 3-4 experienced players every few weeks and think that will get you to the finals, nor can you think dropping those players changes all performances from then on.

The realistic perspective on last night, I believe, is Titans played reasonably well. You have to ignore the history and the losing streak, you can only judge them on how well they were in that game. We weren't playing Titans Rd 24 2019 or Rd 1 2020, so previous performances are irrelevant on the day.

Tigers were average. If we'd been a bit better we would have won, but our attack was uneven, our kicking game was horrible, we made some really key errors and generally our tempo was ordinary in attack and defence. Titans defended pretty well all game and their line speed was superior to ours, to good effect. Our wide Titans really chopped our backs down.

And all that being said, Tigers still should/could have won, despite playing poorly, it was only a fluke kick bounce and a lack of late-game application that lost it. Titans are probably a better team right now than most people give them credit.

Finally - it's really hard to tell how teams are going right now. Warriors were quite good against Dragons (despite it being Dragons) but didn't feature at all against Penrith. Sharkies were poor against Tigers but rallied against Cowboys, who themselves were very poor after a good result against Titans. Broncos had their arse kicked 2 weeks in a row. Raiders smothered Melbourne but then got rolled by Knights, who themselves couldn't overcome Penrith last week. Very uneven performances across the board.

Come off it jirskyr, no need for complete common sense this late at night.

 

[JC99]

There’s not gonna be mass changes, three at most. Our spine won’t be touched, it’ll mostly be the bench that gets changed I think. We really don’t have good players to bring into the team unfortunately and it’s too early to bring in more guys who have never played first grade

Tex Hoy, Bradman Best, Matt Burton, Harry Grant, guys with little to no first grade experience.

What young guys do we have that are ready? Best and Grant are regarded as future Australian reps... we’ve got some good young guys but not sure we have guys that could burst into the scene like the others. Talau was our best bet but he’s shown he’s not ready for first grade yet.

My point is you never know until you try. I'll guarantee there's a kid in CC with no NRL experience who is better than our player with the most NRL experience.

Madge has never been scared to give the young guys a chance as long as they’re good enough. We will see some more guys debut by the end of the year.

 

[happy_tiger]

Tommy T for Jennings Or Thomo if he still at the club
Musgrove for Seyfarth
Would be probably the only likely changes

Wow that's going to change things!

You seem to think we have a bunch of terrific players waiting in the wings to take over. There are very few changes you can really make, we have a couple forwards you could play but the rest are other over the hill blokes about to retire or guys who have never played first grade.

If we keep going crap I’m happy to make mass changes and give a lot of other guys a shot but at this point it’s not the right time yet I think. The bench definitely needs changing and Jennings dropped but what else can you do? What changes would you make?

Isn't Jennings tall, reliable, safe under the high ball and makes a 100m+ a game...?

Do you add anything of significance to this forum or just chime in with smart ass comments. Never seen you add anything of substance in any threads.

Jennings was good last week and didn’t deserve to get dropped. This week he had a shocker and shouldn’t play next week - but I don’t believe Cory Thompson does that much better

lol..don't be upset...debate the post..

So we drop on a week to week basis ..that will work building consistancy..

If non-performers aren't dropped how are they held accountable?

They aren't, and there in lies our problem, Madge needs to grow a set and wield the axe on the golden children

Just like Justin Holbrook did at the Titans last week.

This season all comes down to @Geo ’s 4pm post tomorrow...
No typos Geo !

I did that once can't remember the player think it could have been Malone and the forum imploded..

He's just a slow burner ...he'll play SOO in 21 ..you watch

 

[happy_tiger]

Eisenhuth

Eisenhuth is the Jennings of the forwards.

Eisenhuth would address the issue of teams rolling through the middle of us when our starters come off...it's been an issue in both games..

Who do you suggest Russell

Eisenhuth for all his plodderisms is still a pretty good defender I’ll give him that !

Agree but his lateral movement will need to have improved greatly ...I love the Huth but this new game isn't his go

 

[Needaname]

Garner back to the left.
Twal back to prop.
Mikaele to bench.
Lawrence to right sr.
Luci to Lock.
CheeKam to Backrow.
Mbye and Joey swap
Musgrove in Clark out.

Seyfarth 18th man.

Doueihi
Thompson
Joey
Mbye
Nofo
Benji
Brooks
Josh
Grant
Alex T
Garner
Lawerence
Lucy

Walters
Mikale
Musgrove
CheeKam.

 

[colinbh]

Next season, BJ to second row. Should be devastating there.