POST GAME [Round 15, 2023] Broncos vs Knights

[Morepudding]

I’m strongly in the drop herbie camp. He’s been pretty bad since signing with the dolphins and his defensive reads last night were terrible. Almost cost us the game by rushing ups and going for someone who never even got the ball.

he leaves end of year anyway. Jesse Arthur’s deserves to be in the team he has been great this year, or at least Dene Mariner.

 

[Shane Tronc]

Herbie has been poor for about a month now. Maybe he’s just readjusting to having Oates back?
Thought it was ironic Herbie spraying Oates for not giving him the ball on that chance lol

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

The Lang Park pitch- finally sorted
From Pat’s first ’tackle’ on the Gambler being penalised it was obvious how the game was going to be reffed. Right up to the last play of the game where he gave Newy two goes at trying to snatch the win - the reffing was quite pathetic rofl
Riki’s kick chase all night, especially that one where he hammered Marzew
Walsh’s try assist and that effortless line Piakura ran for the try
Snatching a win at the death despite playing the team that was fresh off the bye for the third straight week
Kobe taking and handing out the knocks in equal measure and that last gasp offload to set up our final try
The Reyno and Ezra show
That last pass

The thing I love about rikis kick chase is he is coming for you no matter what blockers are in the way. We never get a penalty for it anyway. Imagine watching the video as a fb throughout the week KNOWING riki is gonna smack you no matter what

 

[theshed]

The thing I love about rikis kick chase is he is coming for you no matter what blockers are in the way. We never get a penalty for it anyway. Imagine watching the video as a fb throughout the week KNOWING riki is gonna smack you no matter what

Yeah it’s great. Only blemish is when he ran past Marzhew lol

 

[Unbreakable]

I thought that was probably Haas' best game of the year.

21 runs, 222 metres, 7 tackle busts, 4 offloads, 41 tackles, 0 missed.

That's just absurd.

 

[McHunt]

I’m strongly in the drop herbie camp. He’s been pretty bad since signing with the dolphins and his defensive reads last night were terrible. Almost cost us the game by rushing ups and going for someone who never even got the ball.

he leaves end of year anyway. Jesse Arthur’s deserves to be in the team he has been great this year, or at least Dene Mariner.

As the pioneer of putting shit on Herbie for killing momentum - and the one who copped a barrage of invective for pointing it out - I still wouldn't drop him. The worst I'd do is swap him with Cobbo, but that might introduce other issues. His attack has always been self centred, but his defence is normally pretty good, but he's slipped a bit recently.

I think we have to endure his idiosyncrasies, and appreciate what positives he brings, until he leaves.

 

[McHunt]

When was the last time we won a penalty / infringement count?

Last week against the Sharks. The Sharks were pinged 4 to 1 and had 3 players put on report.

 

[McHunt]

I thought billy walters was excellent with his kicking. He was a touch unlucky not to get at least on 40-20 and overall he was very goid. Reynolds was struggling to find the right purchase on it and those kicks from dummy half take the pressure off him. Probably macca's influence. Those little darts probing the line remind me of kerrod walters where hed have forwards linking up as well.

Yes, it's nice to see him chancing his foot occasionally. We lost a bit of that when Jake left:

Turpin all class as kick finds Fakatoumafi on the full

William Fakatoumafi comes through uncontested to score a try off a Jake Turpin kick

www.nrl.com

 

[McHunt]

Starting to get over Herbie running inside every play though...

I remember a time when saying that got you excommunicated from the Church of Herbie.

 

[McHunt]

Smoothy's ruck speed was the starting catalyst that made the team click.

Didn't get enough time to settle in, but I liked what I saw once he got over his nerves. His passing isn't as pretty as Billy's, but I prefer his placement. He keeps the forwards rolling. I hope Kevvie gives him more time next round, and ideally switches them around, with Billy coming on in the last 20 or so.

 

[McHunt]

Billy is unquestionably our best 9, saying otherwise is just wrong.

And Kevvie is our best head coach.

 

[McHunt]

Anyone trying to defend the Reffs after this game - well, I only hope they get better.

The idiot tried his best all game to give a leg up to the Knights. Tried his best to the last second to rob the W from us. Pathetic.

**** you NSWRL. **** Vlando. **** Annersely.

And yet we have more wins than any other team.

 

[McHunt]

But it's not his strength. Oates skillset isn't throwing a 5-6m pass while at full speed. If he throws it and misses the mark, he is scolded by Kevvie.

If Corey had his time over again I'm sure he would've done the same thing, but rolled the defence.

He's a winger. All that needs to be said.

 

[Unbreakable]

@McHunt There's this feature called multi-quote, it's revolutionary.

 

[McHunt]

Another thing that must be driving the anti-billy crew crazy... where the **** has his kicking game come from?! Top notch the last 2 weeks!

It's great to see him becoming less one-dimensional, and I thought he was pretty good last night. His hard flat spiral passes are exactly what I was on about Macca lacking years ago. But, if we're to be honest, he's been good, maybe even very good last night, but the rest of the spine has been FABULOUS. I would rate his kicking game as less than Turpin's, but his service is much snappier.

 

[Santa]

Yes, it's nice to see him chancing his foot occasionally. We lost a bit of that when Jake left:

Turpin all class as kick finds Fakatoumafi on the full

William Fakatoumafi comes through uncontested to score a try off a Jake Turpin kick

www.nrl.com

Don't miss Turpins 2step before every pass though. Watching the Penrith game, it slowed the Roosters down so much.

 

[Unbreakable]

Doesn't work on consecutive pages.

Sure it does, you just click "+quote" on everything you want to respond to and then click "insert quotes" below the message box to add them in to a single message.

 

[McHunt]

Sure it does, you just click "+quote" on everything you want to respond to and then click "insert quotes" below the message box to add them in to a single message.

Oh okay apologies and thanks, I'll keep that in mind before I mess up a thread again.