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Not singling anyone out in particular and I realise some havent gotten home from the game yet but it is a ghost town on here today compared with Monday night. Lets talk about the win for a moment….
For mine today was a step in the right direction and without getting carried away in any shape or form, I found myself pleasantly surprised with the turn around in the attitude and aptitude of our playing group. Obviously Penrith didnt bring their A game and we were far from contender material but there was some great signs I thought;
1. Woods looks ready to start again and is over his injury. He was outstanding today and showed great agility for his tries to boot. Was best on field today in a highly impressive display.
2. Robbie was straight behind him with a huge game himself. Looked dangerous in attack, defended well and was highly involved right throughout the game.
3. The much maligned Timmy Moltz showed today why coaches have faith in him. Was good under the high ball, was good as last line of defence and attacked regularly. Best game I have seen from him in a long time.
4. Benji played like he used to. He showed a good amount of flair, looked to attack at the right times, kicked well and made some good tackles.
5. BMM from the bench was massive as was Pettybourne. These blokes ran hard and dented the line regularly. Eddie took a tap at one stage and launched into the defence with everything he had…great to see.
6. Miller and Marshal started to find their groove. Both were darting around, backing each other up scored tries and looked dangerous. If we stick with Miller, we will have a good halfback.
7. Aysh/Reddy combination looked really solid. They both held their ground in defence and showed a bit in attack.
8. Koro looked very fast with ball in hand and tried to use his newly acquired frame to good use.
9. Blair, although quiet, did a lot of mop up work and put on a great ‘hip and shoulder’ hit to save a try. Still has a fair way to go but is pointing in the right direction.
10. Defence was still a bit washy but had a lot better structure than last week.
11. Energy and enthusiam levels were vastly increased. The boys looked hungry today and did everything at speed. Even though that lead to a lot of errors, they were having a go which is in stark contrast to last week.
12. Kick and chase was very effective for a change.
All in all, it was a scrappy affair but it was a round 2 game against a first round victor and I thought they were quite good. Lots of improvement obviously;
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Koro/Lawrence defensive combination was found out again and exploited. Could be a language barrier thing …needs to be fixed asap.
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Koro has to work on his ball skills. He makes a lot of errors due to ball security which is a shame as he is a weapon when the ball is secured.
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Braith was very quiet. Needs to impose himeself more otherwise he is just a small second rower who is holding back guys who churn out superior stats.
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When we had established what looked like a winning lead, the main men - Rob, Benj and Braith didnt look to close out the game. It is like they are thinking, ‘well they cant get us now, lets have fun’. This theory is disproven regularly and this mindset must change. Hammer the corners, find touch, make them submit and acknowledge they are beaten. Hammer them into the turf. Too often we let sides back in after doing all that hard work. Good sides like Storm, Souths and Manly dont miss these chances.
Anyway Parra next week and we could be down a few members as Gal looks almost certainly gone, Miller ended up off injured as did Rowdy. Parra will supply a harder opponent so hopefully the side continues to improve and rolls them. At the moment we are still not playing like a top 8 side, however they did show something today worth getting excited about after what was a disgraceful effort only 6 days previous.
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Much more promising…. Albeit combinations still need work. A few new players finding their place.
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The other positive today was Buchanan again. Young but promising and doesn;t hide.
Agreed on Miller starting to look the goods for the first 50 or 60 minutes. If he’s out for a week or 2 we should see Tedesco to 1 and Moltzen to 7. Moltzen was better than last week but still provided no support when anyone got half through in the ruck. 50 metres from a fullback is very low in this day and age. I’d be happy if Tedesco shows plays as well as people say he can and makes the 1 his own while Miller comes back to the 7 after a week or 2 injured. Otherwise, is young Brooks ready?
Defence - the number of offloads we let them make was criminal.
Also - Reddy did a good job on the wing. I doubt we’ll see Utai back in that position. Although we’ve gone from the shortest winger in the comp to the slowest (now Covell is retired)
Lawrence - May have been injured and I have no idea who may come in for him, but he is just so quiet in games these days. Quite tragic
Anyway - Congratulations to Potter on his first NRL win!!
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Robbie has a lot to learn and came up with way too many “me” plays for my liking. The forum is less active with a win like this cos the pain of the obvious deficiencies is lessened and peoplw feel the need to lay off the negativity……but believe me, many could write a page or tow on things that need improving. Penrith are terrible.
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Loved the change in attitude.
As for Lawrence, Rory Brien might be an option. He certainly knows how to find the tryline.
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The awful truth part 2 is that was a rubbish win and if Coote stayed on the field the Tigers would have lost !
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Much improved performance by most… Although it was a battle damaged panthers team…
Reddy, Koro and Lawrence did well
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@king sirro:
Robbie has a lot to learn and came up with way too many “me” plays for my liking. The forum is less active with a win like this cos the pain of the obvious deficiencies is lessened and peoplw feel the need to lay off the negativity……but believe me, many could write a page or tow on things that need improving. Penrith are terrible.
same here… esp close to the line…however, after the second woods try i thought to myself, this may be what potter has told him to do… forwards after forwards close to the line… dont think we did too many flashy passses when close to scoring
also, farah needs to pass to miller A LOT MORREEE… when miller gets the ball, i feel like OK there goes the ball to our HALFBACK. he stands deep in the line, gets the pass in front of him and runs at an angle… making defences second guess then passes to the forward who he thinks can make the biggest impact… im really liking the look of miller.
he still doesnt get to kick though :deadhorse:
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We lost Galloway (who was playing VERY well) for the entire 2nd half and Miller (our halfback who was also playing well) while the game was still in the balance. Don;t cut penriff too much slack for playing without Coote.
No question we didn;t look like premiership contenders in that game but the attitude was miles better and that was the important thing from that game.
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I don’t think anybody was expecting them to play amazing. It was just important that they won, so they can release pressure and slowly improve week by week. They did it, job don. Lots of stupid plays but lots of good signs too.
Miller is one.
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I thought that was rubbish today. Penrith threw absolutely nothing at us, yet scored three tries and seemed to make ground at will. If we didn’t get that obstruction penalty with 5 to go I reckon we were 50/50 to lose the game.
Talk about laying bare our deficiencies.
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I’m quick to point out moltzens faults but today his work under the high ball was great. I’m disappoints ex he didn’t run the ball back ala last week but he did not cost us any try’s.
Miller seemed to play his own game and look good.
A utai less side looks great-reddy was sufficient.
Poor turn out though. Last week wouldn’t have helped.
Woods is the goods
Robbie takes to much on. Find it hard to be critical
Benji…the pass to koro…you would have made it
Ashford…meh
Anasta who
Blair gets another week
Rowdy…so sad but your gone
Big red was damaging but with out bench today your covered
Fults, retire a club hero
Bmm sort your hands out
Pettyborne ^
Koro can be fixed. But a little ^Overall it’s 2 pts, in a season that we will struggle to get em I will take em anyway I can
Viva la wests!
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The awful truth part 2 is that was a rubbish win and if Coote stayed on the field the Tigers would have lost !
I think that is a very negative view from a Tigers supporter.
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Well we were only a tad better than last week, we only just managed to beat a team that lost a playmaker early and were pretty awful today. Way too many silly mistakes and drop balls, silly penalties that kept them in the game. Last tackle options and execution better but nowhere near good enough (Benji passing to a prop on the charge on the last, and his air kick) take away the Benji try which was pretty pathetic from Penrith and who knows how the game pans out. All of our try scorers carried the ball less than 5m to score, don’t know what to make of that but it’s unusual for us. We struggled to handle them when they took us on straight and hard.
Most teams would of beaten us today -
Just a tad better?
We weren’t great today but it was a 180 from where we were last week.
