simonthetiger
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@stevetiger said:
Id be dropping Taylor for having Woods,Sauce and Taupau all of for the saem time..what is he thinking??
The period that could cost us
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Id be dropping Taylor for having Woods,Sauce and Taupau all of for the saem time..what is he thinking??
GNR4LIFE
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I think he's been great over the first 2 rounds, so i know it sounds like i'm bashing him, but Siro cost us just as much as Santi today.
Black_n_White
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@stevetiger said:
It was a barry, but the real disappointment was Robbie giving the penalty for pushing Reddy. I found that the most unexcusable/game turning point in the game…. if he didnt trot them down the park, they likely didnt score their first try, which snowballed into a second.
southerntiger
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Massive error by Santi but he wasnt on his own today.
Teddy had a shocker and killed any momentum that we tried to re-establish.
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Teddy had a shocker and killed any momentum that we tried to re-establish.
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sheer64
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We were too flat in attack early.
Our kicking games was poor.
Too easy to read the ball out the back to Teddy.
Then silly errors creep in and we give them field position.
Having said that we still could have beaten them. Will be interesting next week against the Dogs! Hopefully Brooks and Moses offer more in both Attack and Defense.
Our kicking games was poor.
Too easy to read the ball out the back to Teddy.
Then silly errors creep in and we give them field position.
Having said that we still could have beaten them. Will be interesting next week against the Dogs! Hopefully Brooks and Moses offer more in both Attack and Defense.
@GNR4LIFE said:
How?
He was playing terrific until he got injured. Thought we lost a bit when h3 came off.
The pushed pass when half way through the hole was probably worth a crack, it sticks good chance we score.
He only made one other mistake a pressure short ball on the line.
We made way too many mistakes in general. All of them.
sheer64
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@sheer64 said:
Woodsie was great.
MacDougall
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I'm struggling to see how anyone could say Tedesco was bad today. He looks sooooo good. He made a few errors but still racked up 9 tackle breaks and 150 metres. That bomb drop was a tough one. If that's his bad game we've got a superstar.
southerntiger
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@MacDougall said:
Absolutely. He is a champion but had a poor game. Teddy is usually faultless. Today he wasnt. His errors killed us.
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hybrid_tiger
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@Goose said:
That pass by Siro was never on, just another example of us trying to score off every play.
We lost the game because we dropped the pill so many times it wasn't funny…Not cause of the bench
Tim Sheens
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@GNR4LIFE said:
Maybe with a ball that he should have held, but I think that was made a lot worse by the Farah penalty.
Also thought we gave up a hell of a lot more ground down the left side after he was taken off (concussion?), and particularly in defense as Walker ran riot.
I would also have had thought you were just putting the boot in, if not for your positive comments since the trials.
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stevetiger
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@simonthetiger said:
Our halves were terrible and our gun fullback was pretty ordinary. Robbie was good. Still the upside is that we could have won that game. I hope they get it together.
Basil_Tiger
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@stevetiger said:
Yeah,kicking game too predictable,easy reads for Souths,what happened to the inside kick towards the posts when you have Inglis committed to the wing,at least put some doubt there like Souths did to Tedesco.
balmain boy
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I was saying before the game that this would be the time that would define the match and it was.
Yes our ball handling was very poor all day and our kicking game extremely woeful, but we were still in it. They scored when we were lacking our best forwards. As soon as we took them all off last week we became very ordinary. Same happened yesterday.
Taupau simply MUST play off the bench!!! There's no point in bashing teams for the first 30 only to fall to pieces after that! A sustained period of attack followed by another.
Halatau to start and swap with Marty after 20-25.
Yes our ball handling was very poor all day and our kicking game extremely woeful, but we were still in it. They scored when we were lacking our best forwards. As soon as we took them all off last week we became very ordinary. Same happened yesterday.
Taupau simply MUST play off the bench!!! There's no point in bashing teams for the first 30 only to fall to pieces after that! A sustained period of attack followed by another.
Halatau to start and swap with Marty after 20-25.
@Balmain Boy said:
Im with you on this. I'd maybe start with Santi at lock though. I know everyone here rates our forward rotation but in the first 3 rounds we have been poor between the 30-50 minute mark. The rotation need to change so that Tapau, Woods and KG are not off the field at the same time.
simonthetiger
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I think the big three need to play more minutes….surely we could squeeze about 60 out of them and have 2 of them on at all times.
Woods and Kapow played 50 odd and Sauce in the 40's.......surely we could get more than that out of them,they didnt look gassed to me.
Woods and Kapow played 50 odd and Sauce in the 40's.......surely we could get more than that out of them,they didnt look gassed to me.
Was thinking the same thing about those periods. However, regardless of prior rounds, I suspect there was logic to the approach for this match. It was a gamble, but, arguably worth it. Tigers couldn't really expect to win an extended arm wrestle with Souths. Perhaps the best approach was to go all out, early on, whilst fresh and full of running, blitz Souths, put some tries on the board and put them off their game. Yes, the interchange period will come into effect, but, with luck and determination, they may have rattled thier cage enough to force them into catch up mode and make enough errors to hold them at bay for that period. When the starting forwards come back, repeat the blitz as best they can and hopefully, snatch the win. It is a roll of the dice and risky, but, staggering Woods, Galloway and Tapau may have diluted the impact and not allowed Tigers to get the upper hand at any stage, resulting in an arm wrestle they couldn't really hope to win. I'm not saying this tactic is what JT had in mind… but, the first period of the game seems to bear out how it might have worked... IF they had been able to finish off all the attacking opportunities they had, down Souths end. Just a thought.
