Not yet but AW playing his cards close to his chest.
Team List Dolphins vs Warriors - [Round 11, 2025]
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Surely it all depends on how he pulls up after training Friday
Fun Fact and for those worried about this being a day game. Dolphins suck at day games: they only won 3/9 games last year for day games (before 5pm AEST).
As long as he plays wing not centre pleaseSurely it all depends on how he pulls up after training Friday
It hasn't really stopped raining since the cyclone tbh
Lady luck is with us this year.
This year, at times, we have effectively jammed with our inside players sweeping behind to cover the winger incase they get the pass off. I would rather us give up the metres as a safer option and hold the line and drift. Less all or nothing strategyThink the worst i can recall was under Brown.
Remember that Cronulla game they had 2 sent off? It was 13 v 11 and they were still constantly stripping us for numbersThat was so bad.
Webby did tighten the ship 2023 tho, last year got a bit messy again. This year looks like they've changed it up again. Looks like they want the wingers to defend up high in the passing lanes.......saw it with Roger earlier in the season, Taine recently, Dallin (altho he's prone to a bad read anyway) last game.......must be policy. Not sure im a fan if it is.......i get the sense of trying to shut things down early, but a milli second off and your opening up oppertunities when there was none if u just held your line.
Then again we're sitting second, 4th best defence in the comp, so someone obviously knows what their doing.
Yes but it seems he has not been ruled out (note he was listed in the reserves last week)Surely it all depends on how he pulls up after training Friday
Think the worst i can recall was under Brown.
Remember that Cronulla game they had 2 sent off? It was 13 v 11 and they were still constantly stripping us for numbers
Webby did tighten the ship 2023 tho, last year got a bit messy again. This year looks like they've changed it up again. Looks like they want the wingers to defend up high in the passing lanes.......saw it with Roger earlier in the season, Taine recently, Dallin (altho he's prone to a bad read anyway) last game.......must be policy. Not sure im a fan if it is.......i get the sense of trying to shut things down early, but a milli second off and your opening up oppertunities when there was none if u just held your line.
Then again we're sitting second, 4th best defence in the comp, so someone obviously knows what their doing.
I'm fine with the pressuring the link man policy, it has produced some counter attack tries too (the Capewell run vs Broncos). I hope they change it up though, as in do it in the 1st half, and wingers stay back in the 2nd, we've seen teams struggling then adjusted in the 2nd half and scored from it.
We were regarded as a dry ground side a couple of years ago. Are our more mobile forwards making the difference?
Personally, I think we do better in the wet than most teams because it hinders them more than us.
Before the gong, when was the last time we won on a dry track this year?
Vegas was dry. Melbourne was dry.
The rest were soggy grounds, as far as I can think of?
Pretty big game really, 38 points will probably be top 4 and we are almost half way there already, Not the end of the world if we lose but would set us up nicely with 16 rounds left to win about 7 wins required from 14 games
The truth right down the east coast post Alfred.
More mobile would make more dry groundy wouldn't it? We lack Hammer and Herbie speed. We need to manufacture our tries or do the intercept. Bar Metcalf who can pick up a dropped ball and go 100. If he's not cramping up.
Think the worst i can recall was under Brown.
Remember that Cronulla game they had 2 sent off? It was 13 v 11 and they were still constantly stripping us for numbers
Webby did tighten the ship 2023 tho, last year got a bit messy again. This year looks like they've changed it up again. Looks like they want the wingers to defend up high in the passing lanes.......saw it with Roger earlier in the season, Taine recently, Dallin (altho he's prone to a bad read anyway) last game.......must be policy. Not sure im a fan if it is.......i get the sense of trying to shut things down early, but a milli second off and your opening up oppertunities when there was none if u just held your line.
Then again we're sitting second, 4th best defence in the comp, so someone obviously knows what their doing.
With the edge defense, the jamming in and the intercepts, I just figured that the defensive coaches that have worked with these blokes these last two and a bit seasons, realised that they just can't read it.
So rather than try to teach something they have failed at for years, they have decided to make it easy for them and we live or die by that strategy.
I think it is pretty smart really, saves a lot of wasted coaching time trying to make something of players that can't read the nuances and or cannot adapt on the fly as a group. "get in the lane and go for the ball ' takes 30 seconds to explain vs five years..... a whiteboard and Xs and Os and glazed over nodding.
We forget that every week the Coaches sit down and do video, and for these Wingers that would be two and a bit years of "you could have tried this, or remember what we did in training".
Imagine doing that fifty times in a row with these Wingers.
Imagine how the coaches would get together and say 'I think these sessions aren't helping, seems like every week I am bagging these boys, or I can see them losing face every week, or in Staceys case "same shit every week, they don't get it, we might need to change the script".
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Reading these threads has driven me to praying for a hard and fast dry track.
If we are to grow, we need an attacking surface to practice our attack.
And for that matter what kind of cowardly team are we wanting here if they are afraid of a little sunshine???
Bah Humbug piss off with the rain dances, bring the best attack the Dolphins can muster and attack them with our defence, attack them with our new Metcalf inspired running game, attack them with the fast legs of our highly mobile forward pack lead by the JFH Barnett Clark trinity.
I get that the rain was handy when we were in the early part of our rebuild, scrapping wins, but we are plus ten rounds people, we are at the point where we start to evolve into a team that justifies our ladder position.
It is time, bring the sunshine coz feck Redcliff and Seahorse they rode in on.
If we are to grow, we need an attacking surface to practice our attack.
And for that matter what kind of cowardly team are we wanting here if they are afraid of a little sunshine???
Bah Humbug piss off with the rain dances, bring the best attack the Dolphins can muster and attack them with our defence, attack them with our new Metcalf inspired running game, attack them with the fast legs of our highly mobile forward pack lead by the JFH Barnett Clark trinity.
I get that the rain was handy when we were in the early part of our rebuild, scrapping wins, but we are plus ten rounds people, we are at the point where we start to evolve into a team that justifies our ladder position.
It is time, bring the sunshine coz feck Redcliff and Seahorse they rode in on.
Just suggesting we made better use of dry conditions a couple of years ago (faster backline). The tougher and younger forwards are our strength now
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