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They have a coach that's out of his depth and I seriously question the culture at the club.
They have had injuries, fair enough. But that doesn't excuse their efforts.
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They have a coach that's out of his depth and I seriously question the culture at the club.
They have had injuries, fair enough. But that doesn't excuse their efforts.
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Yep, ridiculously cruisy draw to start the sesson as per usual too.
Gotta beat whats put in fron of you though, so kudos to them for picking up wins but I think when they eventually get to a tougher patch of their draw, they'll lose a few.
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Heavy injury toll and a spine that is different almost every game due to poor form, injury etc. Very low on confidence atm as well. The arrival of veterans such as Milford and Nikorima will help immensely but it will be too late. No post season action this year.
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Isn't Niko going to Souths??
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Actually he is. Not sure what I was thinking.
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One of the reasons the AFL is so much better. I mean they still have gambling ads but hardly compared to the NRL's 1 and a half out of every 2.
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How bad are the penalties for arguing with the ref or flinching off the mark tho. Argh!
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Has Ennis mentioned that he’s extremely disappointed yet???
Because that’s all I can recall him saying about the broncos of 2020... and he’s a novacastrian so I would imagine he would be doubly disappointed at the moment
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Look, at least you get a point for missing between the uprights.
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Look at who the boss is for the reason
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You mean the coverage is better. The actual game is barely a sport.
Yeah... it's been a bludger few weeks. Been snowed under at uni though so had a general apathy towards the NRL lately thank the lord. Betting on your games have been the highlight of my weekends.
Jokes on you all though, guess who's currently on the top of the ladder in the Sapphire Series netball baby?! Yessir up the Titans.
I never thought the day would come that I would say I'm excited to see what 32 year old Kieran Foran can do... Have a better weekend/mothers day than me ladies and gents.
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I'm not sure if they were necessarily 'forced' into this situation. I believe they could have kept Fogarty around if they wanted to but they believed that Campbell-Brimson-Sexton was the best combination moving forward. Since the Raiders offered Fogarty more long term security, the Gold Coast chose to do right by him.
I don't necessarily think they were wrong to let Fogarty go. Jamal had shown time and time again that he lacked leadership and would often come up with bone-head plays when the team needed him most. The issue is that instead of signing a like for like replacement they went and signed Will Smith.
It highlights the poor job they've done with Tanah Boyd who went over to the Gold Coast for the opportunity. They lured him over they've shifted him from dummy half to the halves consistently and he's never found his footing as a result. Tanah was one of the most promising players coming through and he's gone backwards since leaving the Broncos.
I think their view is that Campbell-Brimson-Sexton with Smith, Turner, Boyd as back-up options and Tom Weaver as the fallback option if that combination hits it's ceiling too soon. The issue is, Weaver suffered an injury and has barely played this season, so that's a lot of expectation on somebody who hasn't shown much outside of U/18s.
In fairness to them, they've only had the Campbell-Brimson-Sexton combo on the field twice and it resulted in a close win and a close loss. Unfortunately Jayden suffered that rib injury and he's struggling to play through it currently. Last year he was genuinely one of the best players in QCup when he got the opportunity and made the most of it. This year he's struggling to make the same impact.
Getting them on the field would be a major priority, but they also need to change the composition of the team. I'm looking for some dramatic changes from Holbrook, the team is looking very stale and I think they need to inject some fresh blood and change some of their structures around. For me there's still too much play being set up around Brian Kelly who looks injured and isn't talented enough to trouble most teams.
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Definitely not as convincing as last week, but a solid enough win for the Cowboys.
I think it would have been easy for them to come into the game and expect it just to happen. That was the type of mentality the Eels had against the Tigers and we all saw what happened there. To an extent we did see a bit of that in the first half, but come the second the Cowboys focused on getting through their sets and while there was an element of luck to their play they did well to put themselves in that position.
He's done a really good job Payten. It's one thing to blood a bunch of rookies and say job done it's another to get them playing the way Payten has. Nanai, Luki, Neame, Cotter etc. are weapons and Todd has done a tremendous job of selling them the importance of competing on every play. They'll get it wrong from time and time but he's coached the right mentality into them and if they can keep it up they could be anything.
I thought the Knights were pretty brave. Nobody rated them a chance and they gave a good account of themselves. I thought the returns of Fitzgibbon and Young made a difference to the team and the Knights didn't miss their halves as much as they should have been entitled to. I thought that was Crossland's best game this season and Hoy had some good touches as well.
They had some solid moments but like a lot of struggling teams they just clocked off at bad times. That effort on Taulagi was just really poor and then to concede 70 odd metres the next set really hurt them. I think from that point on it was always going to be too difficult for them and to lose Edrick Lee and Jack Johns in the one set was just a bridge too far. In the end, they were probably fortunate not to concede 50.
Looking at their draw, they really ought to make Top 4 this season.
I think it would have been easy for them to come into the game and expect it just to happen. That was the type of mentality the Eels had against the Tigers and we all saw what happened there. To an extent we did see a bit of that in the first half, but come the second the Cowboys focused on getting through their sets and while there was an element of luck to their play they did well to put themselves in that position.
He's done a really good job Payten. It's one thing to blood a bunch of rookies and say job done it's another to get them playing the way Payten has. Nanai, Luki, Neame, Cotter etc. are weapons and Todd has done a tremendous job of selling them the importance of competing on every play. They'll get it wrong from time and time but he's coached the right mentality into them and if they can keep it up they could be anything.
I thought the Knights were pretty brave. Nobody rated them a chance and they gave a good account of themselves. I thought the returns of Fitzgibbon and Young made a difference to the team and the Knights didn't miss their halves as much as they should have been entitled to. I thought that was Crossland's best game this season and Hoy had some good touches as well.
They had some solid moments but like a lot of struggling teams they just clocked off at bad times. That effort on Taulagi was just really poor and then to concede 70 odd metres the next set really hurt them. I think from that point on it was always going to be too difficult for them and to lose Edrick Lee and Jack Johns in the one set was just a bridge too far. In the end, they were probably fortunate not to concede 50.
Looking at their draw, they really ought to make Top 4 this season.
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It looks like you'll get your wish.
Holbrook has said he's going to make changes for Magic Round.
