Bucking Beads
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I think Ash Taylor was first grade standard today. He was superb. I like the look of George Fai as well. He looks promising.
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Yeah, agreed. Fai is a fucking big unit, isn't he?
Taylor is a full-blood halfback, one of the rare real ones. I wouldn't mind seeing him taking the 7 next season, and leave Hunt and Barba to fight it out for the 5/8 position.
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Taylor looks a perfect partner for Hunt.
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George Fai is 18!! The kid will be a wrecking ball.
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Berrell was also excellent today, his service from dummy half was half the work for the halves to do their magic. His stint on the bench coincided with the worst period of the Broncos (end of first and start of second halves).
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Rockley also looked like he goes ok. All we need to do now is develop some big fast wingers and a few goal kickers. Not much punch in our backrowers though.
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How did Grienke do sounded like he was doing a pretty good job.
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Today was the first time I got a proper look at Ash Taylor all year. Suffice to say he was extremely impressive and makes me scratch my head when people say he wasn't ready to play this year instead of Hoffman.
Hopefully there'll be a place for Ash Taylor in our future.
Hopefully there'll be a place for Ash Taylor in our future.
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Ash was injured for 2/3's of the season after shoulder surgery. I reckon he would have been a very good chance at the start of the season otherwise.
Jai Arrow deserves a shout as well, very good job at lock.
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Big Pete
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Difficult to play footy when you spend half the season recovering from a shoulder injury.
One of the biggest problems has been that he came onto the scene last year with plenty of promise, so much so the club placed a ton of faith in him signing him to a 3 year senior contract and then he was out for the rest of the year with the shoulder injury.
Then right before the trials he copped another serious shoulder injury.
One of the biggest problems has been that he came onto the scene last year with plenty of promise, so much so the club placed a ton of faith in him signing him to a 3 year senior contract and then he was out for the rest of the year with the shoulder injury.
Then right before the trials he copped another serious shoulder injury.
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The ironic thing is that now you have to question whether he even has a future in our team.
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That's a shame but can't keep them all.
Performance today was shocking. Defence was non-existent and the Dragons were just making yards at will. Too much class out-wide and much better defence too.
On the Broncos...
Tuttle scored a great try leaping for a cross-field kick. Plenty of traffic but somehow took a wonderful catch and came down with it for a try that kept the Broncos in reach.
They were looking good again when I believe it was Taylor who placed a short kick behind the line which forced a goal line drop out. Unfortunately, Ash got a little too impatient, put in a grubber kick that just rolled dead and that was the ball game.
Defensively, they just tore us to shreds on the fringes and as SF pointed out, got plenty of second phase going which guys like Clune, Duffty their big Fijian winger all took advantage of and I left just before it hit 50.
Hard to pick a stand out after a pumping like that.
Only thing I noticed is that George Fai got injured early into his stint. Got twisted in the tackle, tried to walk it off but the Dragons just took advantage of his injury and scored a pretty soft try to extend their lead.
Performance today was shocking. Defence was non-existent and the Dragons were just making yards at will. Too much class out-wide and much better defence too.
On the Broncos...
Tuttle scored a great try leaping for a cross-field kick. Plenty of traffic but somehow took a wonderful catch and came down with it for a try that kept the Broncos in reach.
They were looking good again when I believe it was Taylor who placed a short kick behind the line which forced a goal line drop out. Unfortunately, Ash got a little too impatient, put in a grubber kick that just rolled dead and that was the ball game.
Defensively, they just tore us to shreds on the fringes and as SF pointed out, got plenty of second phase going which guys like Clune, Duffty their big Fijian winger all took advantage of and I left just before it hit 50.
Hard to pick a stand out after a pumping like that.
Only thing I noticed is that George Fai got injured early into his stint. Got twisted in the tackle, tried to walk it off but the Dragons just took advantage of his injury and scored a pretty soft try to extend their lead.
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None of the broncos in u20's team of the year. What a load of rubbish dominated by Sydney clubs of course.
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Disappointing. The only team in the top eight not to get a rep.
