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+x+x+x+x+x+xOk it's now all about next week. It looked like we have broken the shackles and are throwing the ball around and guess what...... we look dangerous! Barrett's gameplan is crippling the team! At least the first few baby steps have begun , if the team can put on a full 80 mins a few wins will start appearing..Let’s kick it off next week . Seems to me, that the attack is good enough this week, we need to improve the defence and kicking game. Question is Barrett a good defensive coach . He needs to take a good look at it . Team needs to be drilled about fighting for that line . The attack was good when Averillo got more involved. When it goes Flanagans way we looked lost. When DWZ and Thompson got fired up we looked good and dragged some players along and gave Avo a kickstart. Flanagan seemed lost. Lewis next week? or Wakeham? What about Topine! He is a real footie player, what about halfback? Topine definitely looks promising and having a go ,showing enthusiasm. I would persist with him. It is probably a overwhelming for Flanno the Moment. He did not have this pressure on him at the chooks . Needs to take the scruff by the neck a go for it . The difference is that the Roosters didnt tolerate him not being able to handle the pressure. And I can see why they let him go now. The top teams rely on any 1 of their halves to control the game. If Flano cant do it, they dont rate him. He looks worse playing for us because we do t have the skill across the park, but his last tackle options for the team have been diabolical 4 games in a row. Sorry but no one should be given that many chances for no return.
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+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa And I'm talking about kicks. I'm sure A Johns and JT kicked well enough in those seasons and it had nothing to do with them getting the spoon
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+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa Flanagan was good week one, his play in the Thompson try was good. But there is a lot of bad mixed in with the good. I've seen a lot of bad from Hoppa and very little good, Napa is similar. Even Katoa and Waddell have had good patches and seem to be trying hard.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa Incorrect again. Both John’s and Thurston were criticised fir being poor in those years. And it also backs up my argument that we need better forwards not different halves.
That is the real point though. If you aren’t going forward your halves haven’t got much chance. Blaming the backs when you lose is like blaming the rims on your corona when you get beaten over the straight by the V8 Commodore.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa And I'm talking about kicks. I'm sure A Johns and JT kicked well enough in those seasons and it had nothing to do with them getting the spoon Look at most kicks tonight. Flanno had no room because his forwards played the ball slowly and gave him no room to kick. For the Chockens his kicking game was great because they went forward
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa And I'm talking about kicks. I'm sure A Johns and JT kicked well enough in those seasons and it had nothing to do with them getting the spoon Look at most kicks tonight. Flanno had no room because his forwards played the ball slowly and gave him no room to kick. For the Chockens his kicking game was great because they went forward It seems to me that he is a late kicker and should give himself more room or have blocking forwards protect him. Even with that however, he seems a kick and hope type kicker rather than one that can execute s good attacking kick. Averillo this week and Katoa last week kicked better. Way better. Lewis also is under pressure as the go-to kicker but he executes alot better. As was the case with Johns and JT.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. Like I said last week.... If he defends Flano, it will be on his own head. He doesn't need that unnecessary pressure and fans turning on him, but he'll get exactly that if he doesnt act
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa Incorrect again. Both John’s and Thurston were criticised fir being poor in those years. And it also backs up my argument that we need better forwards not different halves.
That is the real point though. If you aren’t going forward your halves haven’t got much chance. Blaming the backs when you lose is like blaming the rims on your corona when you get beaten over the straight by the V8 Commodore. Our attack has been a problem for 3 games, but we managed to improve today. The loss to Broncos (probably the only winnable game) lays squarely on the halves who couldnt create anything for us.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa And I'm talking about kicks. I'm sure A Johns and JT kicked well enough in those seasons and it had nothing to do with them getting the spoon Look at most kicks tonight. Flanno had no room because his forwards played the ball slowly and gave him no room to kick. For the Chockens his kicking game was great because they went forward It seems to me that he is a late kicker and should give himself more room or have blocking forwards protect him. Even with that however, he seems a kick and hope type kicker rather than one that can execute s good attacking kick. Averillo this week and Katoa last week kicked better. Way better. Lewis also is under pressure as the go-to kicker but he executes alot better. As was the case with Johns and JT. Avo kicked in attack. Flanno kicked for meters in defence today. He did stand deep as did our whole backline. Too deep most of the time. It looked like they gave up twenty meters most sets from the first pass.
Flanno doesn’t have the boot that others do. I’ll agree there. I was very against him when we first signed him because I thought we needed an experienced half like Kimi or Sticky during a rebuilding phase. But he does have all the attributes those two do and has huge potential. I certainly don’t think he is the answer. But the answer is never dropping the halves when your forwards and less meters than the opposition. I’ll back him until we gave the forwards to prove me wrong
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa Incorrect again. Both John’s and Thurston were criticised fir being poor in those years. And it also backs up my argument that we need better forwards not different halves.
That is the real point though. If you aren’t going forward your halves haven’t got much chance. Blaming the backs when you lose is like blaming the rims on your corona when you get beaten over the straight by the V8 Commodore. Our attack has been a problem for 3 games, but we managed to improve today. The loss to Broncos (probably the only winnable game) lays squarely on the halves who couldnt create anything for us. Our forwards weren’t better than Brisbane though. We just had decent field position because the refs gave us a few six agains.
I do agree though Flanno made some shocking calls that game. Through the wrong pass three times on the line. Avo could have given us the win against the Broncos I think. He adds a lot in attack.
I don’t think Flanno was bad today. Only one incorrect pass in attack. We won’t know until we have some forwards to give him the room he needs though.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch. I agree and I’m struggling too mate. All Bulldogs fans are. I just hope Baz can attract the best players because we need at least two good middle forwards and a hooker. They will help. I just have a feeling it won’t help enough and we will sign a new coach soon
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year A bit early to be making the call. He needs to consider team selection carefully. Pay has some good ideas, but in the end stuck to stubborn team selections. Hasler created the mess mostly by stuffing up our squad, our development and our cap. Des could coach with talent, but most can. The type of rebuild Baz is trying to fo is very hard without talent, good squad depth, good spine players and in particular good forwards. But good coaches can do it, especially when given 2-3 seasons. If the club sacks Baz next season, there is no way back, we will be collecting spoons for as long as we last. Not saying he is a perfect coach, just that teams who regularly sack coaches, usually stay at the bottom of the table. I am hoping Baz starts to reconsder team selection and/or gets the team playing better. Too early to make the call on his coaching fans are too impatient, major rebuilds take time and rarely go smoothly at the start. He needs more talent to worth with, he is accountable for using the talent he has. Considering Lewis, Meaney, RFM, Okunbor, JMK and Ava are out injured this week, there wasn't a lot of quality talent available for selection this week that wasn't picked. Somehow Baz has to find replacements for the players who deserve to be dropped.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. Didnt stop them being the shining light in wooden spoon teams. At the moment, Flanagan looks like he's one of our worst players along with Hoppa And I'm talking about kicks. I'm sure A Johns and JT kicked well enough in those seasons and it had nothing to do with them getting the spoon Look at most kicks tonight. Flanno had no room because his forwards played the ball slowly and gave him no room to kick. For the Chockens his kicking game was great because they went forward It seems to me that he is a late kicker and should give himself more room or have blocking forwards protect him. Even with that however, he seems a kick and hope type kicker rather than one that can execute s good attacking kick. Averillo this week and Katoa last week kicked better. Way better. Lewis also is under pressure as the go-to kicker but he executes alot better. As was the case with Johns and JT. Avo kicked in attack. Flanno kicked for meters in defence today. He did stand deep as did our whole backline. Too deep most of the time. It looked like they gave up twenty meters most sets from the first pass.
Flanno doesn’t have the boot that others do. I’ll agree there. I was very against him when we first signed him because I thought we needed an experienced half like Kimi or Sticky during a rebuilding phase. But he does have all the attributes those two do and has huge potential. I certainly don’t think he is the answer. But the answer is never dropping the halves when your forwards and less meters than the opposition. I’ll back him until we gave the forwards to prove me wrong
Agree, You can go on all night about the halves, but behind a well beaten pack the have no hope. You need big go forward forwards, quick play the balls, good edge runners and a dominant dummy half. Bulldogs have only Thomson, Hetherington and possibly Atoni in the go forward category. Our edge forwards offer nothing, Jacko is easily contained, Elliot just runs back inside, Waddell may do well but never gets good ball. We need a couple of big boppers to break up the middle (Rudolph type player). Topine will make a great 13, a Radley or Murray type player next year, but now he seems to be a player who will fit in wherever and exude confidence to the team.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch. This season will go better if Baz can fix some of the major problems we have. He is good at spotting the problems, but that isn't hard. The hard part is getting players to overcome bad habits and lapses of concentration. That is easier with more competition for places, IMO we have that in the halves and he has to use it.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year A bit early to be making the call. He needs to consider team selection carefully. Pay has some good ideas, but in the end stuck to stubborn team selections. Hasler created the mess mostly by stuffing up our squad, our development and our cap. Des could coach with talent, but most can. The type of rebuild Baz is trying to fo is very hard without talent, good squad depth, good spine players and in particular good forwards. But good coaches can do it, especially when given 2-3 seasons. If the club sacks Baz next season, there is no way back, we will be collecting spoons for as long as we last. Not saying he is a perfect coach, just that teams who regularly sack coaches, usually stay at the bottom of the table. I am hoping Baz starts to reconsder team selection and/or gets the team playing better. Too early to make the call on his coaching fans are too impatient, major rebuilds take time and rarely go smoothly at the start. He needs more talent to worth with, he is accountable for using the talent he has. Considering Lewis, Meaney, RFM, Okunbor, JMK and Ava are out injured this week, there wasn't a lot of quality talent available for selection this week that wasn't picked. Somehow Baz has to find replacements for the players who deserve to be dropped. Absolutely agree. Just see how the players reacted to Thompson's try and then Topine reacting to another try. The players are there to see this through and it will happen. Do not forget that the bounce of the ball tonight was flukey against us. Three times. The much maligned Dogs held the Storm fairly well most of the game. Give then 75% in the first 25 minutes and all over. Never give up. Baz will prevail in the next 2-3 years.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch. This season will go better if Baz can fix some of the major problems we have. He is good at spotting the problems, but that isn't hard. The hard part is getting players to overcome bad habits and lapses of concentration. That is easier with more competition for places, IMO we have that in the halves and he has to use it. Apart from a handful of players we have two reserve grade teams. Not a lot will change without probably 5 or 6 new players. Not all can be marquee players under the salary cap but at a minimum competen first graders.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year A bit early to be making the call. He needs to consider team selection carefully. Pay has some good ideas, but in the end stuck to stubborn team selections. Hasler created the mess mostly by stuffing up our squad, our development and our cap. Des could coach with talent, but most can. The type of rebuild Baz is trying to fo is very hard without talent, good squad depth, good spine players and in particular good forwards. But good coaches can do it, especially when given 2-3 seasons. If the club sacks Baz next season, there is no way back, we will be collecting spoons for as long as we last. Not saying he is a perfect coach, just that teams who regularly sack coaches, usually stay at the bottom of the table. I am hoping Baz starts to reconsder team selection and/or gets the team playing better. Too early to make the call on his coaching fans are too impatient, major rebuilds take time and rarely go smoothly at the start. He needs more talent to worth with, he is accountable for using the talent he has. Considering Lewis, Meaney, RFM, Okunbor, JMK and Ava are out injured this week, there wasn't a lot of quality talent available for selection this week that wasn't picked. Somehow Baz has to find replacements for the players who deserve to be dropped. Absolutely agree. Just see how the players reacted to Thompson's try and then Topine reacting to another try. The players are there to see this through and it will happen. Do not forget that the bounce of the ball tonight was flukey against us. Three times. The much maligned Dogs held the Storm fairly well most of the game. Give then 75% in the first 25 minutes and all over. Never give up. Baz will prevail in the next 2-3 years. Being super critical of those tries off kicks, DWZ is not great positionally and is a bit slow to the ball. But if Baz thinks he is the best option with Meaney out injured, we need to respect that. Allan didn't add much in attack. What we need is players with energy who will put in for 80 mins, listen to the coaches instructions and keep their minds on the job.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch. This season will go better if Baz can fix some of the major problems we have. He is good at spotting the problems, but that isn't hard. The hard part is getting players to overcome bad habits and lapses of concentration. That is easier with more competition for places, IMO we have that in the halves and he has to use it. Apart from a handful of players we have two reserve grade teams. Not a lot will change without probably 5 or 6 new players. Not all can be marquee players under the salary cap but at a minimum competen first graders. Realistically with the team we have and off contract players we should be able to sign three 500k plus players at least
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch. This season will go better if Baz can fix some of the major problems we have. He is good at spotting the problems, but that isn't hard. The hard part is getting players to overcome bad habits and lapses of concentration. That is easier with more competition for places, IMO we have that in the halves and he has to use it. Apart from a handful of players we have two reserve grade teams. Not a lot will change without probably 5 or 6 new players. Not all can be marquee players under the salary cap but at a minimum competen first graders. We can try more young players or unproven players. I am disapponted if Doorey and Schoupp aren't available for selection and even more disapponted if they are available and are not being picked. The other way to improve the side is drop the worst performing players expecially if they don't seem to be putting in a fully comitted effort. In that case we are not expecting the replacement to be more talented, just to try harder. Defense is all about effort, decision making, energy and desire. We are leaking more points than a team with 17 fully comitted players should be leaking, even considering the new rules, the quality of the opposition, bounce of the ball etc. Lower quality opposition will also we welcome. The 3 tries we did score against the Storm were quality and would trouble most defences.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch. This season will go better if Baz can fix some of the major problems we have. He is good at spotting the problems, but that isn't hard. The hard part is getting players to overcome bad habits and lapses of concentration. That is easier with more competition for places, IMO we have that in the halves and he has to use it. Apart from a handful of players we have two reserve grade teams. Not a lot will change without probably 5 or 6 new players. Not all can be marquee players under the salary cap but at a minimum competen first graders. We can try more young players or unproven players. I am disapponted if Doorey and Schoupp aren't available for selection and even more disapponted if they are available and are not being picked. The other way to improve the side is drop the worst performing players expecially if they don't seem to be putting in a fully comitted effort. In that case we are not expecting the replacement to be more talented, just to try harder. Defense is all about effort, decision making, energy and desire. We are leaking more points than a team with 17 fully comitted players should be leaking, even considering the new rules, the quality of the opposition, bounce of the ball etc. Lower quality opposition will also we welcome. The 3 tries we did score against the Storm were quality and would trouble most defences. Add technique to that
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWe need a kicking coach. The stats, number of kicks and metres gained mean nothing. All kicks are high lobs straight down the opposition's throat every week. One of the reasons for that is our kicks are from our side of 1/2 way. Storm kicks are attacking kicks. There are acres of vacant space but we don't seem to find it. Common denominator Flanno No. It’s our forwards that are the problem. John’s and Thurston would look shit behind our pack Wrong. Those guys were too smart. Flanno is robotic. It's a shame because he looked good in game 1 against the Knights, but is well down on confidence. He needs to be dropped and can try to force his way back into first grade if he can control a game with attacking kicks. No, I’m right. John’s won the wooden spoon when he had a shit pack and Thurston just avoided it because he had one of the greatest props ever. I saw the press conference. Baz mentioned set ends he means 5th tackle kicks, a bad kick gives the opposition more posession and puts pressure on the the side. I agree that the forwards are also a big problem. Baz seems happy with DWZ at fullback, but there were 3-4 Storm tries off kicks DWZ was slow or poorly positioned for 2-3 of them. In contrast he did a good job of catching one of our kicks fir a try. Last time around at fullback DWZ fumbled some kicks and his speed and positional play were ordinary. I am honestly not sure what to do with him. The best footy we saw from Katoa was playing in the halves after Lewis went off injured. Baz highlighted the kicking game, switching off in defence and individual misses. He also noticed who sparked the attack. Any player with poor errors in defence who did little in attack should be dropped. If Averillo make some of the defensive misses we need to persist with him. His defence will improve and he is a major attacking wespon, leave him out we will not score many. I hate to say it but it looks like Baz is out of his depth. I wanted to believe the hype but Pay looks much better and Hasler looks like Bellamy compared to Pay. I’m calling it early. Baz will never get us a premiership and most likely will be sacked next year I must admit, with all the hype of him being behind the panthers attack, I also had a higher opinion of him and I'm definitely disappointed so far. I know we have less talent than other teams but I actually thought he can "coach" the team to play better. I now think you cannot coach some of these players. It's not Barretts fault. I just hoped he could at least make them play as best as they possibly could and then axe the ones that c as not go to the next level. Seems to me, he is losing faith in his own abilities and is now just hoping next season comes along so he can Burton, JAC and maybe 1 or 2 others. I personally think he will survive next year of the back of those players. But this year will be painful to watch. This season will go better if Baz can fix some of the major problems we have. He is good at spotting the problems, but that isn't hard. The hard part is getting players to overcome bad habits and lapses of concentration. That is easier with more competition for places, IMO we have that in the halves and he has to use it. Apart from a handful of players we have two reserve grade teams. Not a lot will change without probably 5 or 6 new players. Not all can be marquee players under the salary cap but at a minimum competen first graders. We can try more young players or unproven players. I am disapponted if Doorey and Schoupp aren't available for selection and even more disapponted if they are available and are not being picked. The other way to improve the side is drop the worst performing players expecially if they don't seem to be putting in a fully comitted effort. In that case we are not expecting the replacement to be more talented, just to try harder. Defense is all about effort, decision making, energy and desire. We are leaking more points than a team with 17 fully comitted players should be leaking, even considering the new rules, the quality of the opposition, bounce of the ball etc. Lower quality opposition will also we welcome. The 3 tries we did score against the Storm were quality and would trouble most defences. Add technique to that Bad defensive technique is a reason to drop a player unless that player is contributing a lot in other areas like attack, work rate, line speed or hardrunning. In particular I don't like bad defensive technique, bad reads or switching off from experienced players, I expect young players with less than 50 NRL gsmes may have issues they need to work on.
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Napa tonight... 5 runs 45m made
If this is correct, he needs to go ASAP!
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+xNapa tonight... 5 runs 45m made If this is correct, he needs to go ASAP! Correct or not he needs to go
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+xWe need to somehow get Hetho a brain Most props have played very well without one.
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Panthers clap.... reminds me of the time Dman visited Panthers leagues.
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Villi
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+xPanthers clap.... reminds me of the time Dman visited Panthers leagues. Dman can’t come to the phone right now.... he’s currently in an ice bath with Toby Rudolf
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