General League Lounge with Shaun Johnson

[CWC]

Finally figured out the VPN thing to start watching these clips. Love SJ's considered take on the Penrith game. Penrith are the OG team when it comes to the gameplan we have perfected this year. So we needed to be perfect to beat them at their own game. We weren't last week and neither were the dogs tonight. No need to get our knickers in a twist over the loss as some have (ie Warriors Fanatics). The boys are still on track for a successful year. Expect a bounce back this week in Brisbane.

Maybe our toughest games will be dogs/panthers this year with the same game plan. dogs actually started having some success when they moved it around early against the panthers system funny enough, they just lost their way when they did the fatal reshuffle lol

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

If the Panthers/ Bulldogs and our style become the winning formula then the games in trouble.

Happy for us but in all honesty defence first and effort over talent is a boring style where you rely on the opposition to lose.

8 points to 6 games like Panthers vs Bulldogs

Hope Melbourne smash all 3 of us playing positive footy (actually just knock the Panthers and Bulldogs out before losing to us in the GF)

 

[sydneywarrior92]

If the Panthers/ Bulldogs and our style become the winning formula then the games in trouble.

Happy for us but in all honesty defence first and effort over talent is a boring style where you rely on the opposition to lose.

8 points to 6 games like Panthers vs Bulldogs

Hope Melbourne smash all 3 of us playing positive footy (actually just knock the Panthers and Bulldogs out before losing to us in the GF)

I guess it depends on one's tastes. As a rugby league purist, nothing disgusts me more than horrendous defensive displays where matches are a 50-48 shootout. Ie every Broncos, Cows or Tits game. The physical contest with two gun packs going at it for 80 minutes is what makes rugby league so absorbing for me. That Dogs vs Panthers match or our game vs Raiders a couple weeks ago is what every game ought to emulate.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Maybe our toughest games will be dogs/panthers this year with the same game plan. dogs actually started having some success when they moved it around early against the panthers system funny enough, they just lost their way when they did the fatal reshuffle lol

you mean when Galvin came on?

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

I guess it depends on one's tastes. As a rugby league purist, nothing disgusts me more than horrendous defensive displays where matches are a 50-48 shootout. Ie every Broncos, Cows or Tits game. The physical contest with two gun packs going at it for 80 minutes is what makes rugby league so absorbing for me. That Dogs vs Panthers match or our game vs Raiders a couple weeks ago is what every game ought to emulate.

Tacklebots are necessary but whole forward packs are tacklebots now.

And it comes at a cost of explosiveness and speed.

There’s no way Ford and Lussick are props in the traditional game.

I don’t blame the teams, I think it’s a smart adaption to speeding up the game. Teams full of slow second rowers that have endurance; forwards that hold back on attack to save themselves for defence; fullbacks as metre eaters that leave the halfback high and dry in attack; kicks for territory instead of try scoring opportunities.

Yawn… except when it’s us winning

 

[CWC]

Unfortunately defense wins championships, whether it's yawnion or league