NRL Round 6 - Tigers Vs Knights - 4:05pm Sunday, 12th April - Campbelltown Sports Stadium

Didn’t watch the game, haven’t watch it yet, Sunday Roast dinner, few drinks family time, taped and will watch tomorrow so only guided by comments on here. Obviously we now realise the efforts of Best in defence.
Obviously DeCourcey had a shocker but that was always likely with his lack of experience and likely out of position, winger.
Without the insight of actually watching would put forward the likely changes which fall back on experience rather than future ability.
Left centre Lucas, left b/row Frizell if fit, f/row bring up Crouch to start with Saulo and Mooney bench. 1, 6 & 7 depends on fitness/ready am leaning towards 1 Sharpe, 6 Brown/Gamble, 7 Smith, Hunt in 19..
So my team, sight unseen?, 1 Sharpe, 2 Young, 3 Gagai, 4 Lucas, 5 Marzhew, 6 Brown/Gamble, 7 Smith, 8 JSaf, 9 Crossland 10 Crouch,
11 Frizell, 12 McEwem, 13 Croker, 14 Graham, 15 Mooney, 16 Saulo, 17 Hopwood, 18 Gamble/Decourcey/McCarthy, 19 Hunt
Gone for experience rather than future, let’s get through the tough next few or more weeks and get back respect and bring in Ponga, Brown and Best with our heads held high, not so much wins but effort.
 
My supercoach team, "The Dark Knights", beat a team called tigers featuring 9 Tigers players (and he had 4 non-scoring Tigers on the bench, and we both had Makashini and Sandon Smith). Heading into the final game, I was leading by 1000pts+ and still won by 200, but he came home with a wet sail. Doeuhi scored over 200.

#FightingTheGoodFight
 
Might’ve been too harsh on Fletcher Hunt. He was our best and biggest attacking threat in the 2nd half.

Bit of a concern how poor our 1st half was. WDC was atrocious but overall our effort was poor. Not as bad as the Warriors game but still frustrating. Still think if we’ve got KP, Brown and Braddy we’re a better side than they are but they thumped us today. Doueihi in particular was fantastic. Best player on the field by a mile.

Also there’s not a lot of positives to take away from today but the myth that we’re somehow better without our best players is one of them. If KP, Brown and especially Braddy are fit today we absolutely win.
 
Last edited:
MBQLD said:
View attachment 8059
I don’t know who said that Marz would get blamed for most of WDC’s mistakes but here’s the standard level of Facebook outrage you will see week in, week out, win or lose. 😆
Click to expand...

Marz not to blame but the game really highlights just how much Best and Gags do for our winger in both attack and defence. Marz was on the NRL scrapheap before coming here, bouncing from the Eels reserves to the Titans and Dom looked completely lost at the Roosters.
 
slotmachine said:
He grounded it as much as Dom did
Click to expand...
Fair. Definitely wasn’t enough evidence to overturn Dom’s try. Bula didn’t ground it either. Another poorly officiated game. At least it didn’t decide the result because the Tigers thoroughly outplayed us
 
Oliver said:
Marz not to blame but the game really highlights just how much Best and Gags do for our winger in both attack and defence. Marz was on the NRL scrapheap before coming here, bouncing from the Eels reserves to the Titans and Dom looked completely lost at the Roosters.
Click to expand...
I think marz has some blame as well not all on wdc. Wdc was pretty poor tonight not the first guy to have a shocker and won't be the last but hopefully only a small hiccup in a bright future .You could see marz didn't trust him and tried solving the problems on his own and was pretty poor on his decisions he was making
 
Marz wasn't given a choice, if you watch WDC closely you will see he was always slow and was either caught infield too much allowing his player to get outside him.

There was also anyone he was beaten and didn't bother to chase back, really poor signs for a young bloke trying to make it.

I don't see how Marz gets any of the blame tbh
 
JOJO82 said:
Marz wasn't given a choice, if you watch WDC closely you will see he was always slow and was either caught infield too much allowing his player to get outside him.

There was also anyone he was beaten and didn't bother to chase back, really poor signs for a young bloke trying to make it.

I don't see how Marz gets any of the blame tbh
Click to expand...
Turuva first try marz makes a decision to leave the line douhei throws a ball over his head marz fault turuva 3rd try again makes a decision to leave the line again poor decision look I not saying drop him but he has some blame out there today to
 
mozza said:
Might’ve been too harsh on Fletcher Hunt. He was our best and biggest attacking threat in the 2nd half.

Bit of a concern how poor our 1st half was. WDC was atrocious but overall our effort was poor. Not as bad as the Warriors game but still frustrating. Still think if we’ve got KP, Brown and Braddy we’re a better side than they are but they thumped us today. Doueihi in particular was fantastic. Best player on the field by a mile.

Also there’s not a lot of positives to take away from today but the myth that we’re somehow better without our best players is one of them. If KP, Brown and especially Braddy are fit today we absolutely win.
Click to expand...
We barely had the ball. There was plenty of effort, no one can hold another team out set after set after set these days because the rules punish all the little tricks of the trade you would use to do that so heavily. Then when we got the ball we tried to do stuff to flip the contest and a lot of it didn’t come off. There was no shortage of effort.

Agree to disagree on Doueihi, IMO their best players were May, Pole and Samuela Fainu. They wrecked us physically. Their spine could have been Gutho, Flanno, Atkinson and retirement home Damien Cook and they’d still score more than 20 on us in the first half.
 
I wonder how the games would look if they went forward with the rule that the conceding team can choose to receive a kick off. The clubs were against it but it would help wrestle some momentum back in these sorts of games where one team is just getting a roll on all game.

We could have been in this game with some possession, but just could not turn the momentum.
 
Les Misérables said:
Mooney has been fairly average all year Ive thought. He isn't a starter.
Click to expand...
When he does get involved in the tough carries, he has a habit of picking out the biggest, meanest forward in the other team, sprinting directly at them full tilt, and then getting absolutely obliterated in contact. This is a guy who's very used to running over smaller and weaker players in NSW Cup, clearly.

He'll either have to fill out & harden up a bit more, improve his base/leg drive, or get a bit smarter about how he goes into contact, because he definitely has this habit of taking one tough carry then not putting his hand up for another one anytime soon after that.

Before the season started I thought they should play him at lock and try to develop him as a Cam Murray type, where it's all late footwork, always hunting for little pockets in between defenders and maybe just being prepared to brace into contact and take his medicine a bit when there's nothing on on his carries. But he seems to want to be a big dog front rower.

Either way I think it's one of these things where we need to give a bit of time, the dude has 7 career starts in the middle.
 
Mclovin said:
I would like to see WDC on the wing in first grade one day, he has the talent and he just got taught a lot of lessons tonight in a pretty hard way. I hope he takes it personally and puts more effort into all areas of his training.
Click to expand...
That's been a criticism of him before, hasn't it, or am I misremembering - not a great trainer.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top