PRE-GAME [Round 3, 2025] Broncos vs Cowboys

I agree, Mariner has to stay and preseason saviour Gosiewski has to go. That means we are going to be playing with both Piakura and Mariner in the same football side again which means our IQ will drop to stapler.
 
I agree, Mariner has to stay and preseason saviour Gosiewski has to go. That means we are going to be playing with both Piakura and Mariner in the same football side again which means our IQ will drop to stapler.
Piakura showed good defence in trials and he needs to play left side and not 10 minutes from bench. I'm happy if Madge goes with Mariner and Piakura with Arthur's, what attacking potential.
 
I agree, Mariner has to stay and preseason saviour Gosiewski has to go. That means we are going to be playing with both Piakura and Mariner in the same football side again which means our IQ will drop to stapler.

Gos missed one tackle .
So did BHunt . He goes too ?
 
Round one and Allen and Bukowski are the only ones you could even give a slight couple of seconds thought of inclusion.

Innes was sensational again.
 
If there was any change I'd make, it would be Hunt for Riki.

He did well in the pre-season and I think Riki needs a rocket up him to lift his game.

The only question is, can Hunt play 80? Or do you force Patty to play 80 and move Kobe to backrow throughout the game to give Hunt a breather?

Perhaps even send Piakura back to QCup and drop RIki to the bench and Hunt to starting backrow.
 
Gos missed one tackle .
So did BHunt . He goes too ?
He missed 4 actually, and only made 13. But as you can see, it was an issue across the board. Problem for Gosiewski is his misses were crucial and led to tries.

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After reflecting and taking a few breaths I think and hope madge doesn't react too much to this loss.

They appear to be weak mentally and downhill runners but dropping gos for piakura would not send a good message. As bad as gos was and is, the best result for the team is a reaction from both and the continued message to earn it back. 1 bad game and he gets dropped that means piakura will have to play 22 good games in a row or get dropped as well? So far the score is 1-1 with them, but gos had a better pre season so he deserves another chance. If he plays bad next game and piakua plays well then you swap them, 1 or 2 bad games more off the bench and j hunt (if playing and training well in reserves) comes in for him on the bench.

I hope tapau comes in for jensen though. Jensen is great, but he just doesn't fit with our team week to week. Haas, carrigan, willison and hethrington can all play more than 50 minutes without denting their impacts. We need impact for 20-30 mins. The raiders just screamed out of the line (so quickly some may theorise it was illegal but the refs would notice *cough cough* that of course) and rushed willison knowing the next guy or the guy before was no chance of doing a tacklebusting, linebreaking, quick ptb run so they didn't need the numbers or to be on the front foot defensively. And when they do rush jensen he gets pushed back most times.

I really like him but he just doesn't fit our team. If we had a high impact 2nd row/middle on the bench so we had 3 middle options (and cover our inept and/or injury prone edges) he would be perfect, but we need the momentum to change or continue from our bench.
 
IMO Shibasaki and Gosiewski really need to step it up in defence ... both have had defensive lapses that have led to tries.

both likely made the side primarily because of their defence and their attacking ability isn't good enough to keep out Mariner (or Staggs now i suppose), and Piakura without having top notch defence
 
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