You can't judge Pompey on the All Stars game. First game of the season at rep intensity against a backline of the fastest players in the comp. As others have said, at this point in the season you go for experience as teams are still full of beans and the matches are grinds. Save putting Ali in...
Some of the runs in the last quarter were pedestrian. Especially when urgency is required. That fucked with the ruck speed. We were told to release immediately, whereas every takle they made was a surrender or dominant. They wanted it more and we had no cohesion or direction in attack when it...
His ruck deception is lethal. He's got the no-look pass down to an art. He can fein left and pass right to Johnson for that sweep play. He's the one creating the overlap on the edge and is the reason Dallin scores so often. Forget top 3 he is the 9 with the best pass in the game. We win nothing...
We always seemed to produce a coach killer when the drums started up. The club must of felt it was hoodoo from the lean years. Great for Game Day experience, but an adrenaline trigger for the players.
Overs for one of the Broncos up-and-comers Te Kura, Piakura or Willison will pay off. Give one of them too much money to refuse. It's not like the Broncos environment is that much better now the Warriors have turned the culture around. One more year of proving it to the league and hopefully we...
Unluckly for Maiuu today I thought. I was impressed that 12 vs 13 near-on the whole match we had the ascendancy on defence. Plus an extra man and minus a few dud decisions by Lussick and Farr we would've had them covered. If the depth is this strong the FG team is going to be red hot.
I'm suddenly more jazzed about Hansen than CHT after that game. Chanel was unnoticeable, though maybe focused on feeding Rog. Hansen's bombs look to be a point of difference and if he's still a year or two away he looks to be one to keep.
Target 20 of them from around the country and fly them in for a 2 week holiday prop training camp. Show them what your looking for, load them up with merch and send them back to club comps keeping tabs on them. Surely that wouldn't be too difficult.
What's the prevailing theory on this? Is it because the of the size required to be competitive in that position is only increasing? Is it trying to strike a balance between motor and weight that isn't achieved until mid-20s? Was it the change in interchange rules?
Since the rise of Taumalolo in...