We have been cruelled with injuries all year, but let's look at who was not injured and has been playing in those six weeks of absolute dog-turd, low-grade pretendy football.
Riki - A Kiwi forward so a bonus coming into origin you would think. Nope. His soft tackles on our line has become a habit, so much so that opposition coaches target him for their crash plays as he's soft as shit. And - oh look he's gone and got himself a two week suspension for a nothing, no need, dumb late hit so he'll be missing during an origin game when he's really needed. What a deadset pretty-boy wanker. I did have time for him coming through the ranks and he was one of the first to sign for us in the bad years, but he has amounted to nothing and needs to sort his defence out and start taking the hard frikkin lines in attack. Looks like Tarzan plays like Chita!
Staggs - another clown who thinks defence is de thing out to de back of de house. "Oh I'm captain tonight so let's set a great example and get sin binned" what a dickhead. Since Q cup days his defence has been poor, but he made up for it in attack. Aside from last night he has not bothered to put in in attack of late. Paid too much for not a lot in return.
Walters - a season from hell after doing so well to punch above his weight last year. That captain's challenge was never on last night. Three in the tackle!! Even if the player lost it cold it was never going to be reversed - just plain dumb.
Oates - loved that he managed to smash that shitstain Sloan (the amount of 6 agains he 'wins' by deliberately tangling his legs with the tackler is criminal). Oatsey also had zero errors, no penalties against him and should be telling the ones on here that say he should be dropped to **** right off. He takes a pay-cut to stay at the club and puts in despite being on one leg at the minute and some tragics on here want to drop him for good. Yeah right.
Sailor- FMD can we move on please. That clusterfuck of an attempted bomb-take that gifted Su'a 6 points and could have been the difference between a win and a loss was typical of his lapses in focus. He has been doing it every week and costing us at least a try every week. NOT UP TO NRL STANDARD!!! Never was, never will be.
Big Marty - That's two weeks the big fella has had a real dig and shown the young fellas how to do it - but wait we've already told him we no longer need his services next year. We much prefer the likes of (checks notes) Baker and Hunt FFS!
Kobe- Eat more porridge son.
Mam- Has improved his defence over the last few weeks, but he's really marking time waiting for the likes of Reyno and Walsh. He is isolated at present as we have no other real threats. So the opposition can jam him on every play. He'll come good.
Jensen - Good honest toiler. Would love to see the occasional lift in intensity in either defence or attack. We really needed him during origin to step up, but seems he was not able.
Willison - better than half our other forwards playing with a busted shoulder last night. If only we could bin Baker and Hunt and give their money to the X man and sign two q cup hopefuls on minimum wage as the other two are wasted cap space.
Mariner - did he play last night? The last few weeks he's made some howlers in defence. So maybe he decided if I don't touch the ball I won't be accused of fucking up.
Yeh I could go on and on with a whinge at how we only lift once the game is out of reach and are unable to stay focused for any longer than 20 minutes in the opening of a game. The fact of the matter is these guys are not a team, are not being coached as a team and it all seems to revolve around the time the players wanted TPJ back in and Kev knocked it back. From then on the team threw in the towel. Kev's days are strictly numbered and it will not be long before you hear those cliched words of "yeh we let the coach down".
It's Kev's own fault. He's been too much of a nice guy. He waits 6 weeks before blowing up that their attitude is not good enough? Get fucked Kev. You should have been riding these troughers hard right after that Titans game. That's when a good coach knows there is something wrong with the attitude. Waiting another 6 weeks hoping it will change is living in the realms of fairyland.
Mozer is not yet ready for full-time NRL but well worth his spot on the bench. Either drop Smoothy or Walters to make way for him. Again, it's a bit late now though. Our ill discipline and our poor completion rate is all on the coach. Our poor attitude is also on the coach. He's sat on his hands for 6 weeks and watched our season go up in flames. Why? Because he has **** all idea of what to do. He's lost without the individual brilliance of some of our players who are currently missing in action. His coaching credentials are seriously under the microscope. If he fails to make the eight this year, he's a gonner.
