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BadnMean

People a just sick of premium free agent players being signed by the Roosters or Brisbane. A draft won't stop that. Sent from my CPH2021 using Tapatalk A draft won't stop that- a draft alone that is- but it does mitigate it to a fair degree. It provides one balancing mechanism. Others would be tran...

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Bulldogs are gonna be a big test next week. Our crash balls aren't going to trouble them too much I have to say. Their defence is pretty impressive. Will need to be able to get some rolls on mid field and hope this can free up Timoko, Kris, Savage, Strange and Weekes to do some damage. Rapana back ...

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Seiffert82 wrote: ↑May 10, 2024, 12:13 pm We've got 2 now.

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Not likely for 2025

BadnMean

I guess the question for me for any young spine player is whether they'll be superstar, which I'd broadly describe as a top ten player of the game. I'm of the view that a team can and will be a huge premiership force, with 2-4 superstars and the rest more or less honest hard working, solid players....

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Written 15 years ago. Thanks for thinking of me, Ricky, but I have better things to do Phil Gould | April 26, 2009 Dear Ricky, perhaps you misunderstood my comments during the week about your predicament at Cronulla. Your invitation to have me come to training and talk to your players about attacki...

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I posted a number of times in the pre-season about going after Angus Crichton, he was getable and on the market. He's turned his form around and back close to his best as predicted. He'll probably stay at the Roosters now. Would have been great for us. Ah well. I may get deleted but there were seri...

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To sum it up, Andrew Webster is struggling. How about other highly touted coaches who have come through in the last few seasons? Adam Obrien? Stinking the house down. Todd Payten. Also wafting an abhorrent stench. Jason Demetriou? Jack is playing the best footy of his career under him.? Ciraldo and...

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Jack could roll a grubber past the dead ball line from halfway. He just isn’t a finesse player. Fog and Strange definitely have the better short kicking games than our previous halves of the last decade. Fog probably has the best long kicking game too. Fog this season was the best I've seen a raide...

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It was noticeable when Starling and Mooney came on how our defensive line compressed and our line speed improved. Weird game. Didn't look like Manly wanted to win it in the second half. They're getting run down, and then overtaken and DCE and Tommy didn’t even really attempt to do anything about it...

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Chevy back to cup would be my go. Without Fog there is a need for some experience in that spine.

There's a very good chance Chevy gets another crack at FG with a Rapana injury or suspension in a month or two anyway, given age and playing style.

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It’s going to be pretty bloody important that Strange, Sanders and Chev are learning on the job with a strong pack Tapine may not be a core part of the future raiders team that we’re hoping can win us a comp (he also might be! He’s not so old that there is certainty around that) but he’s going to b...

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Probably DL's best defensive game for us with only 2 missed and 1 ineffective tackle. One tackle I recall on Turbo was very good close to our line. But... can he back it up. In Manly's first try DL is the defender ambling across the field when Turbo cuts back inside. If he had shown a little more u...

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Calling a spade a spade, I thought we looked very disjointed in attack. I get that weekes had the courage to kick on the second tackle, but other than that I don't recall him creating anything else which suggests to me he will be a consistent first grader. I hope he grows in confidence after that w...

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I guess now is when those of us who were still "on" Hudson Young - good yards all year, great effort we just post annoying reminders? I thought he was still very ordinary with a lot of ill discipline… 110m+ (only 2 forwards cracked the ton on a night when yards were hard), 36 tackles in t...

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Strange already setting himself up as a bit of a match winner. First the Titans game and then the perfect grubber in this game. Great to see from such a young guy. Huge plays from a rooky half. Massive competitor in him. Lachlan Galpin is getting some hype with comparable attacking stats off a smal...

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Can’t see us getting within 20 points of the Sea Eagles tonight. And even if we do - we all know it’ll be down to another one of these classic Rick rah-rah ambush response performances rather than anything sustainable. It shouldn’t take getting a 40-blot shellacking at home to elicit some effort an...

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President Clinton wrote: ↑May 3, 2024, 8:18 pm
julian87 wrote: ↑May 3, 2024, 8:17 pm What a performance.
From the worst spine ever in NRL history!!!

Would like to see the score D Levi on vs D Levi off...

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That would have been magic. I was there in late 1991 when Mal scored late and kicked the winner from the sideline to keep us in the top 5. Too many other times at Brookvale were very painful. Was that the one at home vs Doggies when Mal reminded reporters after the match, "It's an 80 minute ga...

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I guess now is when those of us who were still "on" Hudson Young - good yards all year, great effort we just post annoying reminders?

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I'm on board with bringing in Woolford because he provides better service out of DH, but I wouldn't be expecting him to improve our defence in the middle - Woolf does a job sure, but I'm not sure he is that much of an upgrade defensively. In 2022 and 2023 BadnMean, please drop some stats to set you...

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Now Schneider glides through because Bunnies are terrified of his slow mo hoop ball.

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There is not one other coach in the NRL who would persist with having two superior (albeit not by much) hookers languishing in reserve grade for such a long period of time. Levi is done. He was done 3 clubs ago. Starling is a great back up 3rd choice hooker who can play a part if need be. And yet h...

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Rickmando wrote: ↑May 1, 2024, 7:34 am
Is that the same meeting where the players come to him with suggestions for coaching ideas?

That's the one.

And then Ricky tells us the pack has taken charge of their own start/bench options and there's an article about how he's mellowed.

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People thinking Hoppa is not that bad a choice for fullback, do they watch other teams, or just the Raiders?? Every team has a strike fullback. All of them. Hoppa is not even a strike winger With an already weak spine, this is devastating. I'll hope for some good metres and carries but I can't see ...

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Well, there’s certainly been an overreaction in here to what is a pretty understandable team list. Hoppa at fullback, that’s fine. Stewart needs a rest and Rapana’s still injured. They did it in the trials and he played well so it’s not completely out of left field. He may not be exciting and speed...

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Hoppa comes in and maybe Elliot and that's it I suspect. Billy was right in that you need to give yourself some latitude moving forward. At the end of the day they just have to get some of these players better. Strange needs to learn how to run straight and engage the line to open up some space for...

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It all starts at dummy half though, BnM. Every single damned play Let’s hope the coach sorts that out this week Completely agree. Woolf at least takes the right option more often than not, which at least would actually help the others development to get the ball a fraction quicker and at the right ...

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My Broncos supporting mates and then my Sharks supporting work colleague were saying they can’t believe I have been talking up our young players. They think that Mooney is worse than their reserve props, Chevy is particularly useless with no potential and that Strange is only OK. Are we over egging...

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Don't think it was "couldn't" I think it was "didn't want to" I'm sure if he had no offers on the table to match they would've offered him a reduced price contract for another year or 2 Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk Yeah probably right. But the decision making is the same ...

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Looking at the stats, the game for the most part is pretty even, they ran for 400m more The glaring stat is 64 missed tackles, that's ridiculous. That suggests they'd been beaten before they got off the bus. Whether it was Fogartys injury or the Brisbane game was draining mentally, they just didn't...

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Everyone keeps saying Levi bombed a certain try. He was running in mud with Nico Hynes flying up behind him. There was no way he was getting to the try line. We might have scored off the next play but Levi wasn’t getting there. That’s part of the issue. How was Mr Preseason so gassed that early in ...

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Hodgo moved on because he was cooked after the injury and we couldn't match the offer. His career afterward showed that was the right call. Which doesn't mean backing Starling was the right call. His best form- in 2020/2021 coincided with that for Hodgo and we all kind of hoped his game would develo...

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1. Stewart- sounds weird in such a loss but he defended well. I'm still waiting for the slick passing he's shown in reggies to come out. Might take him a while to catch up with that side of FG. He popped up to receive one or two offloads which is good. We could lean in on offloads more since our att...

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Both Cook and Woolford are crap and won’t change anything. There’s a reason why Stuart tried to “upgrade” Woolford with a player that’s been rejected from 3 NRL clubs. Has nothing to do with “personal vendettas” and everything to do with being not very good. Levi has been OK this year, popped up wi...

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Well we have to look for positives and expect that with a half dosen FGers out including our only experienced spine player, that we will suffer for it. Chevy is showing signs he could be ok. Honestly I'd let him unlock his passing game more- it's his strength. He's shown he can defend and do hard ch...

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