What has happened to Sironen

[laufoofan]

Siro's form has dropped and laziness in tackles and application is part of the problem. With the other 16 players doing the same, no wonder we were flogged.

 

[Tigermama]

I find it funny that people are singling out Sirro over the past few weeks when the entire team has been lapped 112-10 in the space of 7 days.

Those types of scores involve many players not playing to their best, not just the 21 year old guy.

My take is he has shown enough ability to prove he is a first-grader, but his form has fallen away as the team has also fallen away. But it's also hard to judge him considering a few serious injuries and the Tigers have run 10th, 15th and currently 12th since he started.

Sirro cops extra scrutiny because he shares his Dad's surname which some people think gave him a free ticket.

And you wonder why Mitchell Pearce didn't want to play for Tigers.

Very glad Mitchell isn't playing for us Lol..

 

[balmain boy]

It's one thing to bag his defence, but when there's not one player in our 25 man squad (apart from maybe farah) who knows how to tackle properly it's a little unfair to single out anyone. Liam would have been excluded but he's no longer part of the squad.

All of our forwards are regularly bumped out of tackles, in the wrong position, making contact in the wrong areas etc. Breaks get made though the middle of us because our forwards don't know how to tackle! This is either a coaches fault, or consistently poor recruitment of players who don't know how to defend.

Our bench bash boys are great in attack but all are very vulnerable in defence.

Then our backs are often too small to tackle an opponent or are playing in a defensive strategy where they are forced to slide along and come up and in at the offence, often leaving us vulnerable to fast outside backs of the opposition. This is a coaching issue. This defence does not suit us and all of our outside backs, everyone one of them, has been guilty of making some horrible decisions in defence.

Sirro has still only ever played what 12 games in the forwards in his career? He just needs some time to develop and kick ass in nsw cup, but with injuries he has to play NRL.