ride my unicorn on the rainbow from Narnia to Hogwarts

God I hate parra more and more each day

… except us fans, Luke Brooks.

what’s that now, 7 seasons in the nrl without finals? he’s got his shortcomings but geeze no one deserves that

As expected but I don’t think Talau and Mbye can be on the bench.

inglis, burgess and now roberts… clearly souths are bending the rules somewhere somehow

never seen a man medically retire and then wanting to play origin the year after

I only see 3 options:

1. NRL is turning a blind eye
2. Souths have found some type of a loophole somewhere
3. Bennet is the greatest man manager of all where he can make players believe that letting go of 500K is actually good for them

Compare all this to our Farah situation where we got fined and suspended for gaining absolutely NO ADVANTAGE whatsoever. We are either super amateur or NRL is trying to push us out.

if they had stayed together, I think they would’ve made a good combo.

Moses: sets up more tries, better bombs, more enthusiastic, can push a pass and better support play
Brooks: better defence, short kicking game, faster, better with clutch plays

But, Brooks will always be 100x the man Mitchell will ever be. Low life sook

https://t.co/LFL1kGXdcC?amp=1

Good video on NRL.com by Anthony Seibold.

The main point in that is that gold standard defence is all about inside pressure from the 4 in defender or the middle forwards.

Interestingly he pointed out Tiger’s structure and how he was impressed by it, especially pointing out Mbye’s decision making skills when the structure breaks.

Let’s hope we build on that for the rest of the year.

I am happy for the journos to have a go at WT at this point but seriously they do it all wrong…They all have such short memories.

1. The most common thing you hear is we let Teddy/Moses/Paps/JAC go. We didn’t let them go, they chose to leave because we weren’t winning. Paps went coz he had Teddy in front. Moses threw away games so he could be let go. JAC I can cop because we definitely made a mistake. Benji seems to go OK at Rabbitohs but he would’ve been useless for us here. Happy he got a chance there.

2. Signing dud people- we tried to go after JAC, Latrell, Cotric, Nathan Cleary etc but they didn’t come. Mbye/Packer/Reynolds were the signings of Ivan Cleary

3. Ivan Cleary/Aloiai/Matterson- left mid-contract. Not enough is said about this. IC made those signings then jumped ship. Can’t believe he is never asked about this in the media still.

We deserve to be blasted by the journos for sure but we were victims^ of the above, not the party at fault…

The more I see JAC, the more I want him at fullback. His skill level still hasn’t been witnessed. The chip and chase was out of the blue. Also, no matter the situation, he finishes the try, or sets it up. He doesn’t have a great passing game but he can deliver the last pass that we have craved.

JAC is definitely better than Nofoaluma but Noffa is WT through and through. I’d rather cheer for him than JAC so that’s a no deal for me.

@the_third said in Game Charges v Souths:

@tig_prmz said in Game Charges v Souths:

3 separate INTENTIONAL discretions. These were not done in the heat of the moment, the last out at Garner was vindictive, the hit on Nofoaluma was WAY after he had kicked it- VINDICTIVE and I guess the knee sliding was laziness.

Funny thing is we got absolutely no benefit in that at all.

All because he had “family problems”

What a joke. If Wayne kered he would have taken him off

Of course media pushing that story.

Can’t comment on that as I am unsure of that history.

At the end of the day, these were intentional hits, so was his hit on Josh Reynolds last year. Kids like these should be eaten alive, face should be rubbed in the dirt, accidental knee to the thigh, pull his hair, wax his forearms- that’s how they learn.

@tony-soprano said in Kepaoa:

Anyone see how it happened

I think this was actually contact injury. Some landed on his thigh, pushing it and the rest of the body back, shin stayed forward. Almost hyperextension ACL tear rather than your cutting/decelleration injury.

@cochise said in James Tamou - missing in action:

I thought he was key in our increased line speed tonight.

Line speed is more than just one person. There were points where he led the line speed, but they still struggle to do it as a team.

They’re far up the ladder so no comparison but Melb disinintegrates their line speed a little. They figure out who’s going to get the ball and form a mini C around them.

Obviously Tamou can’t do all on his own but his marker defence and second efforts are still pretty bad. He still gets a quick PTB with landing on his knees but isn’t doing the tough hard carries that are required of any prop.

We are only 6 games into the season but he hasn’t impressed me too much yet on the field. Hope he can change my mind soon!

Really bad luck, his best game with us.

We need some outside backs. Time to panic buy a fringe unwanted winger from somewhere IMO.

Really hard to see us back that performance up TBH.

Musgrove is key IMO- he really sets a big tone.

Hahaha I remember you started a thread like this when he made a big call on Triple M sometime GNR.

I didn’t like him on radio too much, too opinionated and self important but on TV, calls the game quite well and keeps his opinions to himself.

I like commentators that keep their opinions to themselves and just call the game. There are plenty of things happening on the field that get missed by the public coz the commentator has no idea, the refs do a good job with their hand signals and calls but the commentator is always either late or unaware.

Opinions should be saved for post match, half time and maybe the stoppages with the expert panel (minimal though).

Bulldogs will earmark their game against us as their best chance of getting a win this year. Hope whenever we play them, we don’t take them lightly. They are one team we HAVE to beat…

3 separate INTENTIONAL discretions. These were not done in the heat of the moment, the last out at Garner was vindictive, the hit on Nofoaluma was WAY after he had kicked it- VINDICTIVE and I guess the knee sliding was laziness.

Funny thing is we got absolutely no benefit in that at all.

Very impressive, but still a long way to go.

I would still have Liddle on the bench IMO. Sorry to put it on the kid but Joe O and him were the culprits for T Burgess’ try. Obviously expected due to playing 85 minutes in the middle in his first NRL game.

Excited to see him develop, but with our track record, I wouldn’t discount Liddle and put all our eggs in Simpkin’s basket.

Yep, all above board.

Ref was about to blow no try and refer to Bunker before Brooksy took off. Even if Brooks didn’t score on the other side, the ref would’ve come back for the try, he was only going to pay advantage for one play.

As for the try itself, I actually think he lost control and never re-gained it properly if you look in full speed. He has contact with the ball in slow mo but not control. Keeping in mind, ref had ruled a no try as well… I don’t think there was conclusive evidence that he remained in control of it.