stevetiger
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@happy tiger said:
I certainly don't want to personally attack you. It was just a joke.
Time for Change
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I certainly don't want to personally attack you. It was just a joke.
@GNR4LIFE said:
Everything has been stifled under the WE need to Defend Banner.
I posted this before but what about the scrums every time its Tedesco passing at lock to a Centre who hits the ball up and takes the tackle (except for that one time Nofa scored). How about some scrum plays ? Why is our best attacker at lock ? I don't get it.
What about the last tackle option its always Books or Moses up and under and a slow chase and make sure they get over their 20 metre line before you make a tackle. I don't get it ? I have seen Brooks do some wonderful 40/20's Why can't we kick to a corner or the in goal area.
We used to play Benji on the wing in defence early in his career but not Brooks or Moses we have to make sure they are targeted every set so they got no energy to attack. Hoeter is a winger and we play him centre, Lovett is a reserve grade forward and we play him in the centres. What's your big plan this week maybe give Buchanan a run in the centres.
Boring Boring Boring Taylor you give me a headache.
happy_tiger
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@Newtown said:
Yes I am
Will probably see some new faces
supercoach
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At the start of the season I thought we would bag the spoon and nothing has changed, that was based on our playing roster measured up against all the other teams lists. Taylor was on a hiding to nothing and okay he has not set the world on fire, but he is trying to show them what is required to be successful, now I have some serious doubts some of players can cut the mustard, but I do not hold Taylor responsible, just like Potter was not responsible. I can endure the rest of the year but I would expect to see some improvement next year and than by 2017 be a top eight team or better
InBenjiWeTrust
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IMHO, some players were below par, but Taylor has to take responsibility for some awful decisions,
e.g. promoting Hoeter before Fine, and Lovett before Akauola and Funaki. He made quite a few tactical errors,the most obvious one being Lovett at center.
It is questionable by how much he has improved our defence from the last year.
The other (objective) problem were injuries to Nofoaluma and Simona, I think we played only one full game (Souths) with Tedesco, Nofoluma and SImona :frowning: our only attacking weapons ATM.
With Tedesco as our only dangerous attacking player it is hard to win games :frowning:
e.g. promoting Hoeter before Fine, and Lovett before Akauola and Funaki. He made quite a few tactical errors,the most obvious one being Lovett at center.
It is questionable by how much he has improved our defence from the last year.
The other (objective) problem were injuries to Nofoaluma and Simona, I think we played only one full game (Souths) with Tedesco, Nofoluma and SImona :frowning: our only attacking weapons ATM.
With Tedesco as our only dangerous attacking player it is hard to win games :frowning:
@Pawsandclaws said:
I agree. He went out of his way (as did Woods) to pat Hoeter on the head after he spilt a poor pass …I think from Brooks (again!) in the first half. I thought it was a good sign from our captain as the kid was hardly having a great game. In fact, none of the "kids" had a great game on Sunday, nor even a good one. It must be frustrating for Robbie, as it is for us as well.
guyofthetiger
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@happy tiger said:
We just haven't had the capacity to run around teams on the edges for too long.
Benji at least is/was the master at spreading it wide, setting up sideline breaks. Perhaps too much too often though as we know.
We just seem to get smothered on the edges. Opposition line speeds seem double ours.
Simona has been incapable of utilising his speed and fend to get around the edges for 2 years now and I'm not sure why - perhaps the ball just doesn't get to him fast enough?? Perhaps he's easily targeted as our only option in that regard??
What happened to Seve or Fine who I thought were our future in the centres as opposed to Hoeter and Milone?
We desperately need speed on the outside either way.
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Black_n_White
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99% of the time? lol, I wouldnt even put it at 50%
Black_n_White
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@Tigermama said:
lol, yes we can.
In all seriousness you watch and every scrum win we just do one pass to the Centre and do your best. We have scored one try from that great move so that makes it about 0.5% chance of scoring.
The way he has the halves playing like robots it maybe setting them up for the long term but boy is it boring to watch. I am surprised they just don't go stuff you we are going to play footy this week.
The way he has the halves playing like robots it maybe setting them up for the long term but boy is it boring to watch. I am surprised they just don't go stuff you we are going to play footy this week.
