Recent content by heartly87

Not to mention he was the first of this group to commit to the club in our worst years. He believed in the club, the least we can do is give him ours. He is well above average defensively and has the potential to be very damaging. At the moment he is safe both sides of the game.

Great game from the boys. Near 90% completion rate in the wet. Great defence mostly yet again. Reynolds kicking and game management clinic. Don't get the Ricki hate tonight as this was his best game in a long time. Yes he has got more to give in attack but this was a good effort. Our forward...

I think he has been solid. He has been around an 7 to 8 out of 10 the first few rounds. If he keeps that up he will stick around a lot longer than i would have thought preseason. He is also a point of difference in our backs. Him and Cobbo make up some size we otherwise lack. With Staggs back...

Yeah your spot on. I rewatched it again. I think round 1 set people up for a fantasy bubble burst. Broncos fans are use to seeing the entertainers. I believe we are going to see more games like this. Where our solid defence and fitness wins the day. Raiders unlike the Cows actually look fit...

Darren would disagree. He was great at support play in the middle, kicking and playmaking. It's about choosing the moment. Granted when you're coming out of your own half hanging around the middle is pointless. But once you are over your own 40, tackl 1, 2 and potentially 3 should be live for...

They feed off each other. Hence they both had poor years last year. But when they are on they are on. We just have to give the new combos time. Personally I think Walsh hasn't found his new thing yet. He was great running outside shape, but once the Panthers showed crunching in on him last...

Positive I take from that apart from the obvious win is that we wouldn't have won it last year. Our fitness is right up there. It as allowed us to stay in the game last week and this week it got us over the line. I think the easy win in round one probably wasn't what we needed. A tough lesson...

Home crowd and no excuse for not showing up. We will see what type of team shows up. Until we can play tough and to the system under pressure we ain't winning a comp. We can win more games than we lose but we need that extra discipline to knock of the Storm or Panthers when it counts. I am...

That's why I said if he could think about control in the tackle. Cam was very good at winning tackles because he was thinking about it, like a ufc fighter would.

Cam Smith was a hugger, it's about conserving energy. If like Cam he would consintrate on control in the tackle then that would be great. It's something Blake seems to attempt. I want crisp delivery and an attacking threat out of hooker. Not a hitter, if your expending energy attempting to shot...

I don't want to rewatch the game as I found it very chaotic to watch. But I will just retouch on the momentum thing. We had a very poor start with a number of six agains, a couple of tries and the stupid dead kick off. It saps energy and the boys never adjusted. They never decided to take the...

Round one looked pretty awful for the game. The deck has to be stacked a bit against the top end for a while to avoid embarrassing the game. Why else would you ban free speech about ref decisions after round one out of the blue. Melbourne will be the only one who gets the rub. They appear to...

This is the modern game. Momentum is extremely hard to stop. We had our chances to do it but our completion rate made it impossible. Raiders games are always difficult. Especially early in the year. We were lucky not to get ,50 put on us. I said it would be a perfect litmus test game for us...

I wouldn't agree he fixed the culture. But I would say he got the guys to love the club again and each other. He was on the way with culture with Ikin at his side but he derailed that relationship and the culture suffered. Madge doesn't need Ikin as shown with his trip to Cherbourg. That's...