General Your 2025 team

[Five&Last]

Mix between To’o and Turuva maybe, he’s quite evasive and strong in contact. Has pace not top tier pace tho

He’s a lot more skilled with ball in hand than either of them and not as widely set as them either.

He’s a hard comparison.

But yeah you’re right he doesn’t have top end speed, only the explosiveness over the first 20m

 

[Wrighty]

Well I’ve spent all off season reading everyone’s thoughts and all things considered I think this is the lineup that’s probably making the most sense to me-

Cnk
Dwz
Berry
Ali
Rts
Tmm
Metcalf

Jfh
Egan
Barnett
Capewell
Leka
Clarke

Cht
Demitric Vaimauga
Nuikore
Walker

Who is your goal kicker? Metcalf?

 

[Playdaball]

If GK is Metcalf, we would have the worst kicker in the NRL.

 

[Damo]

If GK is Metcalf, we would have the worst kicker in the NRL.

Bit dramatic, he kicks around 76.5% in NSW Cup so about mid range as far as NRL goes.

To compare between noted goal kickers in the squad.
Adam Pompey: 72.58%
Tanah Boyd: 79.41%
Taine Tuaupiki: 76.4% (NSW Cup)

 

[Defence]

Who is your goal kicker? Metcalf?

Yip hand him the keys

 

[Defence]

If GK is Metcalf, we would have the worst kicker in the NRL.

Who’s your goal kicker?
And don’t say Boyd- he’s depth.

 

[Tragic]

Who’s your goal kicker?
And don’t say Boyd- he’s depth.

Boyd

 

[Tragic]

Because you win a lot less without a yardage kicker and there is only one in our squad.

 

[Inruin]

Because you win a lot less without a yardage kicker and there is only one in our squad.

Is that actually true? Or was last season just an anomaly with losing more with SJ at 7 than TMM at 7?

 

[Tragic]

Is that actually true? Or was last season just an anomaly with losing more with SJ at 7 than TMM at 7?

Is rugby league a game of yardage and field position?

 

[Inruin]

Is rugby league a game of yardage and field position?

It's a game of scoring more points than the opposition.

 

[Tragic]

It's a game of scoring more points than the opposition.

If we are closer to the opposition line at the start of our sets we should score more points than if we are further away.
That might not be as true if you can score long range tries but we can't so it is truer for us than anybody else

 

[Damo]

If we are closer to the opposition line at the start of our sets we should score more points than if we are further away.
That might not be as true if you can score long range tries but we can't so it is truer for us than anybody else

From memory, we were top 3 at starting our sets closer to the opposition line last season. I will find the stats to confirm.
We seemed to have one of the best field positions in the competition but could not finish and score the points to actually take advantage of it.

 

[Inruin]

If we are closer to the opposition line at the start of our sets we should score more points than if we are further away.
That might not be as true if you can score long range tries but we can't so it is truer for us than anybody else

So why didn't we score more points and win more games with SJ at 7 last season given we dominated all those stats?

 

[WA Warrior]

From memory, we were top 3 at starting our sets closer to the opposition line last season. I will find the stats to confirm.
We seemed to have one of the best field positions in the competition but could not finish and score the points to actually take advantage of it.

Take AFB out of the side and we are going to find it harder to gain the same field position imo.

 

[Damo]

If we are closer to the opposition line at the start of our sets we should score more points than if we are further away.
That might not be as true if you can score long range tries but we can't so it is truer for us than anybody else

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This article is a good read alluding to what I said.

 

[Inruin]

Take AFB out of the side and we are going to find it harder to gain the same field position imo.

That's a possibility. It's also possible we get a better spread of output from our players. I take some comfort from our two best wins last season, the Panthers and Dolphins, were games AFB had a small contribution in the first and then none in the second.

 

[WA Warrior]

That's a possibility. It's also possible we get a better spread of output from our players. I take some comfort from our two best wins last season, the Panthers and Dolphins, were games AFB had a small contribution in the first and then none in the second.

I hope so too but just going by my eye test AFB just started our roll ons with post contact metres, late footwork and quick play the balls.
But I hope Webby has a plan to spread out the work like you say

 

[Inruin]

I hope so too but just going by my eye test AFB just started our roll ons with post contact metres, late footwork and quick play the balls.
But I hope Webby has a plan to spread out the work like you say

Yeah me too. Like I say, we managed for those two good games. Can we cope for more games than that? Not far away from finding out!

 

[Tragic]

That's a possibility. It's also possible we get a better spread of output from our players. I take some comfort from our two best wins last season, the Panthers and Dolphins, were games AFB had a small contribution in the first and then none in the second.

Yes I agree, we won those games off superior kicking metres. So we can win without AFB but only if we have a metre kicker.