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He's still moving forward as he promotes it, Madden's tackle wasn't enough to stop him in his tracks.
POST GAME [Round 12, 2023] Broncos vs Panthers
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He's still moving forward as he promotes it, Madden's tackle wasn't enough to stop him in his tracks.
- Jul 28, 2016
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Have you seen cows draw
Parra rd 13
Storm rd 14 (Sunday after origin)
Bye rd 15
Panthers rd 16 (during origin... no Cleary, Yeo, etc.)
Souths Rd 17 (week after origin... Latrell and co backing up)
Tigers Rd 18 (at home and completely unaffected by origin... for them)
Bye rd 19
Parra in rd 13 is literally their most disadvantaged game throughout the entire period...
Jeez... they must get 'lucky' with their 'draw'
- Mar 4, 2008
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I can't be mad at that, we were all effort. We made mistakes but only because we were trying things against as solid of a defense that I've seen. Their first try was a double movement and we had two tries taken off us. Seems we get looked at as harshly as possible while other teams get benefit of the doubt.
Fitzy
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- Sep 10, 2018
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I think they made a massive mistake again tonight but I’m sorry we didn’t lose because of the ref we lost because we were bang average. The deserved team won and whilst that needs investigating that situation the deserved team definitely won tonight.
- Jun 13, 2019
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While I don't mind Walsh doing the shorter kicks because I think he is not far off Reyno in that regard, Madden should have been doing the bulk of the kicking tonight, he has a good boot on him and kicked pretty well, but it was nearly a 50/50 share with Walsh who is a bit hit and miss on the bigger kicks.
Most of us highlighted this at the start of the week that Madden needed to take control, I felt he played well regardless but the kicking he needed to take alot more control, he can send the ball much further up the field more consistently(I think given Mam had no kicking involvement it was clearly a coaching direction).
Mam had basically no kicking in this game and while his decisions are generally pretty terrible on last kick options Madden should have been given more control by the coaching staff, he made it clear in this game he is a much better 7 than a 6.
Most of us highlighted this at the start of the week that Madden needed to take control, I felt he played well regardless but the kicking he needed to take alot more control, he can send the ball much further up the field more consistently(I think given Mam had no kicking involvement it was clearly a coaching direction).
Mam had basically no kicking in this game and while his decisions are generally pretty terrible on last kick options Madden should have been given more control by the coaching staff, he made it clear in this game he is a much better 7 than a 6.
- Jul 28, 2016
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I'd take Frizzel, but play him as a middle off the bench... not sure he'd be keen on the pay packet that comes with that kind of role though
- Jul 28, 2016
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He also got us a penalty by starting a fight for 'tackling too hard'... might've been our first ever!!
- Jul 28, 2016
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If we have Reynolds, Flegler and Walsh next week then we might be a chance... we're losing a shit ton to origin, but if Billy picks Flegler and then chucks Walsh in the 18 jersey... we fucked
- Jun 13, 2019
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too injury prone for me.
- Jul 28, 2016
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Your stills don't show him getting tackled straight away... can't be guaranteed that momentum gets him there when his upper body is tackled and then driven out of play.
His upper chest on the left side is behind the line in your second still... that's where the ball was... Staggs is in the frame to tackle him a split second later.
To suggest he's definitely scoring or momentum is getting him there, without promoting the ball, is a tough sell. Given it's 50/50 (at best) and he's clearly promoted the ball, it shouldn't be rewarded with a try.
- Jul 28, 2016
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I think he'd be handy as a middle off the bench doing 30-40mins.. like Taupau is doing. I think he'd bring a lot of impact to the team.
Unfortunately that kind of role is like $250-300k tops... and he'd be on $600k at knights... I feel like there's teams out there :::cough tigers cough:::: who would offer him more to keep playing as an 80min edge forward (even though he can't really do it anymore).
OR a team like sharks could offer him $250k for the same role and he'd go there, given it's his old club, he's in a top 4 team and he doesn't have to leave Sydney.
- Jun 13, 2019
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I just look at where the ball was and where that part of the body is when he goes for the try and see a clear no try, he promoted that while a player was holding him, sure his body moved forward but not enough for where the line was to where he stopped.
- Jun 13, 2019
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expensive NSW player it wouldn't work, I think what we need is what we lost, Hosking would have been perfect.
we need a hidden gem backrower to play as Capewells rotation imo, and hopefully better and capewell can rotate with him.
We are not even paying that much for capewell, and he is a big moment player with good leadership we still need him.
- Jul 28, 2016
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Yep... I've been saying for awhile that Piakura should be getting groomed into that kind of role.
Play Capes for 30mins then bring Piakura on to play out the game... Capes then becomes a utility off the bench for injuries or you figure out a way to bring him into the middle rotation.
At some point we either need to get some value out of Piakura or what was the point of signing him in the first place.
- Jun 13, 2019
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I think it's 50 mins for Capewell where he still fully effective, Penrith game shows that, saved a Crichton try at the 49th min that we blew with the middle not moving the line over after.
if your benching an edge a bit after the 2nd half starts will get the most out of the freshness advantage from what I can see.
You are right by saying the better team won but to say we were bang average I don't know what game you were watching.
- Jul 28, 2016
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to be honest you can't really tell where the momentum would put him after he's promoted the ball given he's tackled straight away.
His entire right side is promoted forward from where he initially grounded the ball.. given his stomach / lower rib cage (the only parts not promoted) didn't get over the line before being tackled I don't see how it can be rewarded... they're simply rewarded a promotion of the ball after being tackled... are we playing union now??
