The State Cup form line...

[LeichhardtTiger]

In racing terms, the reggies form line is holding up...

Jake has come in and looked at home...

Cini today...right at home...

Seyfarth has been a workhorse in reggies and, importantly, scrambled really well. Got longer mins today and was everywhere...30 tackles / 1 miss. Was on the ball, covered, first to kicks.

The form line is holding up very, very, nicely.

I hate to single out Brooksy, but he had a million shots on their line and did nothing. It took Laurie to step up and create. Madden would really add a lot of direction to our sets in opp 20.

Blore will come in soon...
Tuki not long after...
Tuilagi is an NRL back rower...
Amone bends the line like no one else we have...

There's the pack variety we need...

Penrith's reserves form line from 24-36 months ago was incredible and time has proved it right.

Not comparing them, but ours is looking promising

Dropping Mikaele and BJ to reggies didn't hurt - they have come back stronger!

 

[Bones]

Brooks played well in the second half.


Brooks defence was excellent all game.Hopefully confidence from that will spark his attack

His defense has always been good...as has his running game...

Brooksy's issue is in the opp 20. He likely will never improve that, he has had 7 years. Our points score record in opp 20 is almost as bad as the historically terrible Dogs.

Maybe Brooks 14?

Brooks had a try assist and 3 forced drop outs all from within the opposition 20. Almost had another assist but for the hand of Joey Leilua. Yes he wasn't great in the first half, but he was fantastic in the second half. Almost a flawless performance from a halfback in terms of controlling where the game is played and keeping pressure on the other team.

I don't know mate, I tend to agree with Ennis. Brooksy had a million shots on their line and all he called was a prop hit up into traffic.

Ennis was spot on that they were shot multiple times and Brooksy did not see it.

AD and Laurie looked way more threatening.

Probably an unpopular opinion but AD needs to pass the ball more. It seems like he runs 50% of the time, especially close to the line, and it stifles our attack.

Once again Brooks is copping it for not setting up enough tries, last week it was not enough set restarts. It doesn’t matter what he does anymore.

He's our top dollar halfback who's claimed he's leading the team. You can't just do one thing and be bad at the others. Kicking improved but his attack close to the line lacked composure. Needs to put it all together

But he isn’t just doing 1 thing, he is doing 9 out of 10 things each week and people just want to pick on the 1.

Honestly when he plays poorly I’m all for dropping him but you can’t tell me he deserves to be dropped on current form. And money should have nothing to do with it, you pick the best 17 each week regardless of what they’re being paid.

 

[JC99]

Brooks played well in the second half.


Brooks defence was excellent all game.Hopefully confidence from that will spark his attack

His defense has always been good...as has his running game...

Brooksy's issue is in the opp 20. He likely will never improve that, he has had 7 years. Our points score record in opp 20 is almost as bad as the historically terrible Dogs.

Maybe Brooks 14?

Brooks had a try assist and 3 forced drop outs all from within the opposition 20. Almost had another assist but for the hand of Joey Leilua. Yes he wasn't great in the first half, but he was fantastic in the second half. Almost a flawless performance from a halfback in terms of controlling where the game is played and keeping pressure on the other team.

I don't know mate, I tend to agree with Ennis. Brooksy had a million shots on their line and all he called was a prop hit up into traffic.

Ennis was spot on that they were shot multiple times and Brooksy did not see it.

AD and Laurie looked way more threatening.

Probably an unpopular opinion but AD needs to pass the ball more. It seems like he runs 50% of the time, especially close to the line, and it stifles our attack.

Once again Brooks is copping it for not setting up enough tries, last week it was not enough set restarts. It doesn’t matter what he does anymore.

He's our top dollar halfback who's claimed he's leading the team. You can't just do one thing and be bad at the others. Kicking improved but his attack close to the line lacked composure. Needs to put it all together

But he isn’t just doing 1 thing, he is doing 9 out of 10 things each week and people just want to pick on the 1.

Honestly when he plays poorly I’m all for dropping him but you can’t tell me he deserves to be dropped on current form. And money should have nothing to do with it, you pick the best 17 each week regardless of what they’re being paid.

I can't agree. Some people are definitely over the top but he's meant to lead the team around and he looks like he's got no clue what he's doing a lot of the time. Madden has been playing very well and will continue to put pressure on Brooks this year, although brooks is definitely improving parts of his game every week just think he lacks composure

 

[BAGNF05]

Brooks played well in the second half.


Brooks defence was excellent all game.Hopefully confidence from that will spark his attack

His defense has always been good...as has his running game...

Brooksy's issue is in the opp 20. He likely will never improve that, he has had 7 years. Our points score record in opp 20 is almost as bad as the historically terrible Dogs.

Maybe Brooks 14?

Brooks had a try assist and 3 forced drop outs all from within the opposition 20. Almost had another assist but for the hand of Joey Leilua. Yes he wasn't great in the first half, but he was fantastic in the second half. Almost a flawless performance from a halfback in terms of controlling where the game is played and keeping pressure on the other team.

Great game management we had something like 65% possession (2nd half) and over 85% (match) completions. His short kicks were good too. Our attack is too lateral but that can be fixed. Good signs but as always it’s one week in a row.