Tino Tavana #305

[tig_prmz]

Benji needed to take some care for the kid and hook him at half time and accept one less forward for the rotation. That was a hard watch and toa gave him no support. The knights did it to protect de courcey and make sure his confidence and career weren’t tanked. Will be hard for Tavana not to get in his head next time he drops a catch, but hope he can get it sorted as he clearly is an athletic and talented guy.

We need to learn to "shield" our catchers better. Even Taylan May and Luai on the other side are too late to obtain the position where the attackers can get a clean shot at the ball. Luai ends up giving escort penalties and Toa just stays too passive at the risk of one.

Tavana should've done better for sure, but this is an area the whole team has to improve.

Refs know who's going for the ball and who's not. All we can do is to get within 2m of the man catching the ball before the attackers do. Whoever gets to that position first wins.

Reynolds and Trindall killed us with their kicking game.

 

[Tucker]

All three of our losses have now been heavily influenced by poor play from one of our wingers and not doing the bare minimum expected of a professional rugby league winger.

Skelton with the air swing against Souths, Makasini with the uncontested dropped balls/passes and positioning against Broncos and now Tavana with 6+ errors and piss poor defense (featuring Starford as well). LL also almost cost us the game against Eels with some braindead actions but has come back strong since being dropped.

I hope Benji is laying into them this week because just about everyone else on the field has been doing their jobs every week only to be let down by basic errors from that one side of the field.

Yes this is true.
People who are coming up with excuses trying to blame the forward pack are idiots.
Those men put in every single game.