the similarities they have to the broncos of old are uncanny.
Great result for Melbourne last night...
No they are not becoming more beatable. They were missing 2 of the best spine players in the comp as well as in my opinion there best middle forward and an outside back. Which is why they were getting toweled up in the second half they had Trent Loeiro, Tyran Wishart, Alec McDonald, Dean Ieremia, Marion Seve, Tui Kamikamica, Chris Lewis And then Harry Grant at 7 and Nick Meaney at 1. That side would have been wiped with by the Bulldogs. Yes obviously it is a tactic to have 0 depth to afford more star players but don’t give me this shit that they are more beatable cause the looney tunes I just named got beat by the team sitting in 3rd who have lost 3 games this year. The Storm still would absolutely wipe the floor against any team with a full side in their form up until unfortunate injuries. You lot would blame every loss on injuries even if it was bloody Jordan Riki or something. Don’t use a bunch of cup players to get a gauge of where their team is at when they are missing Papenhuyzen (most in form player in the comp till his injury), Hughes (one of the top halfbacks), Welch, NAS and Reimis (cause major backline shuffle alongside Papi).
I wasn't referring to lastnight's result. They have zero depth. They are more beatable this year than most based on that.
Depth isn’t a point at all. If you are relying on breaking into their depth to win then how are they anymore beatable than previous years when they still had 0 depth. Just cause Nicho Hynes was on the bench last year doesn’t mean they had good depth. Not at all. For years now they have had Kamikamica, Lewis, Seve, Ieremia, Eisenhuth, Jennings and Cooper Johns as depth even someone like Loeiro I believe is in their 3rd season there. Even blokes like Howarth, Garlick, Pezet, Wishart, Moeroa and Grant (Jordan) are in there second season and we’re viewed as a legitimate force last year. So please explain to me how Nikorima, Faalogo and Warbrick coming in makes their depth any significantly worse as a result of the absence of Lumelume, Atkinson and Hynes leaving. They have been competing all this time with shocking depth and you see 2 weeks in a row against top teams where they have to scour to the dregs of the squad just to form a team and you decide that they are more beatable as a result of a handful of depth players moving for relatively like for like skilled replacements (barring Hynes). Yeah fucken oath if they send out that side it’s beatable but it has been no different for years as to their depth ability. Might make the odd case for nrl experience but really regardless of whether you played a handful of games or not if you have to send out about 10 depth players and play your best players out of position more often than not you will get toweled up. I guarantee you that if they had their best team last night I reckon the score lines would have been reversed.
Of course it would, that's not my argument. I said I think they look more beatable this year than they have in previous years, based largely on their lack of quality depth. You can have a different opinion, that's fine.
cheers
Arousing read.
It's a change from the Seibold days where every name ended with a y.
