I wasn't interested in Arthurs. Too vanilla for me when we have XFactor developing but boy, a vanilla centre who can tackle and organise a defensive line is upgrade at the moment.
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Not as bad as last week but still not good enough to go anywhere this year.
The flaws we all saw in our backline have been exposed.
Roger has been diabolical since announcing Wakefield, I’d give AKP a shot.
Charnze with one of his worst, I thought centre was worth a shot but yeah I was wrong, injury has probably given Ali a shot.
Metcalf and Boyd chemistry isn’t there, sad but injury may have done us a favour here to see if CHT is the better foil for Tannah
DWZ did his job today which keeps him there over Roger.
Kinda a free shot against Melbourne next week- we are on a hiding to nothing but it may give the guys a chance to refind some form with zero expectations
The flaws we all saw in our backline have been exposed.
Roger has been diabolical since announcing Wakefield, I’d give AKP a shot.
Charnze with one of his worst, I thought centre was worth a shot but yeah I was wrong, injury has probably given Ali a shot.
Metcalf and Boyd chemistry isn’t there, sad but injury may have done us a favour here to see if CHT is the better foil for Tannah
DWZ did his job today which keeps him there over Roger.
Kinda a free shot against Melbourne next week- we are on a hiding to nothing but it may give the guys a chance to refind some form with zero expectations
Shouldn't make any difference. Number up and nail your opposite
I think Capewell is far more valuable to this team than we have previously acknowledged. Yes, Leka/Laban are the future but they are both guilty of lazy efforts on defense. Some of the arm grabbing from them today is not cup standard, let alone NRL. Capewell needs to come back into the side and Leka back to the bench imo.
Momentum is a hell of a drug.
It can have you running at peak efficiency or scraping your nuts across sandpaper
Na AKP has earnt a call up, Roger has been real poor this year
I wouldn't mind Arthas. Can move him between wing or centre. Would still prefer Mariner or Staggs. Bit of x factor. Beggar's can't be choosers i guess. He'll do!
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Nah, Roger is done. We can't keep picking him cos rog is Mr Nice Guy.
I could be wrong... but I think he was being sarcastic.
Rog was being compared to Brian To'o. He was our metre eating winger and was relentless. If he loses that ability I think we need to move on. However AKP is not a reliable metre eating winger. We would need CNK at fullback to help cover the metres needed from the back 3 if we dropped RTS and replace him with AKP.
Prefer to keep it simple
Tackle the bloke in front of you and trust your outsides to do the same
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Because we were impatient and lacked the "turn up for each other' and "keep your egos in check" stuff.
I agree he's shaky but I can only remember young SJ and Thurston as the magicians who could pull greatness out of their butts behind a poor pack.
If WE can pull together and tighten up the ship we have points in us. But only on the back of the cliché possession and territory KPI's.
He'll be alright. I disagree that he offers nothing as in I don't think it's time to write him off yet. Not by a long shot.
My two cents is that we might benefit by rotating our squad. Say we start Demetric and Tanner and have Fish and Ford start from the bench. My only point on this is getting more recovery time into our starters and getting more minutes into our young benchies.
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