PRE-GAME Round 4 - Broncos vs Titans
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No, we flogged the Roosters the week before we played the Titans. It was the Rabbitohs game after the Titans where we won under controversial circumstances and then the next game against the Panthers we were heavily penalized but managed to hold them out.
_wwong
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That's why I just want to see us blow a team off the park for a change. This would send a message to the media and the competition. Plus give the boys some belief and confidence.
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However, the Titans were flogged by the Raiders the week before they played us last year.
Supply and demand. Very few quality halves so these guys can trade on potential or past glories. You are only worth what the highest bidder is willing to pay.
However agree lucky these guys aren’t on performance based contracts. Taylor is still young and would benefit from a better system than suspect is getting at moment. Alf wasn’t much first couple of years. Needed help and time, suspect in good team with the right combination of a bodyguard (and before say shouldn’t need one Locky had one), five eight and coaching staff he would be worth close to his pay.
Makes you wonder about the old argument that halves are either being run out of the game by kids too big to be playing in their age range, parents removing the smart ones to play something ‘safer’ and/or coaches over coaching their development.
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It’s a hard one isn’t it. The bigger, faster, more athletic kid will always get the contract at that younger age, which is a shame.
But for every one of those athletic kids we pick up (and there are a hell of a lot of them!), there is a not-so-athletic kid, who is smaller, not as robust and not as developed, who is developing other skills like resilience, toughness, game awareness etc. This type of kid is the one that we haven’t done enough recruiting. The footballer. Not the athlete. This is where the Storm are miles ahead - they identify a footballer first, not the athlete.
We go to junior carnivals and sign all the biggest and fastest kids. The ones running over the little kids, and scoring all the tries. Which is great to some extent (think Haas, Fifita, Corey Allen etc), as there is some real talent there.
But it doesn’t get you a “footballer”. A Lockyer, Thurston, Smith, Slater type player. We need to start developing the kids that aren’t the biggest and fastest, but can read a game, can play tough, can be a footballer - not an athlete. That’s what we lack.
That’s what the game as a whole really lacks at the moment.
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Probably today or tomorrow. The news isn't going to be good though. Anytime you go straight off when hurting yourself (and not returning), that usually indicates a more serious injury. Hopefully not more than a month for either player.
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Even if he made contact and tripped Widdop, he wouldn't miss any games.
You don't get points for trips now, you just get a fine and that's what he got.
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Ryan James, Keegan Hipgrave, Ash Taylor all charged.
They will all be free to play. James and Hipgrave got points but not enough to be suspended and Taylor got a $1500 fine.
They will all be free to play. James and Hipgrave got points but not enough to be suspended and Taylor got a $1500 fine.
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TPJ and Oates expected to miss two weeks each.
_wwong
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You're right. All the potential junior halfbacks who have a football brain are probably now on this forum analysing the game lol
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I just read online that they are both expected to be out for up to 2 weeks. Titans then Newcastle coming up. Newcastle won't be easy at their home ground but hopefully we can still get a couple of wins without them.
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If it's two weeks, wouldn't they be okay for the Newcastle game?
I hope so too. Whilst the defence was very good last game (and I personally think it is far more important than attack at this time of year) we best see a major improvement in the attack. You won't see another game won any time soon without scoring a try.
There were the mitigating factors of injuries, but for mine the real problem is in our halves lack of desire to get the ball, with the game in balance. Both need to be sniffing for opportunities.
It's a long season and it's early days, but that kind of thing is important. Milford is steadily improving, but still tends to go into his shell sometimes.
Knik's kicking can be improved, both with greater application, but also helping him out in field position. He seems to feed on self-confidence and goes to another level when things are going right. Kicking is an important part of that, as after a bad kick he tends to dissappear.
There were the mitigating factors of injuries, but for mine the real problem is in our halves lack of desire to get the ball, with the game in balance. Both need to be sniffing for opportunities.
It's a long season and it's early days, but that kind of thing is important. Milford is steadily improving, but still tends to go into his shell sometimes.
Knik's kicking can be improved, both with greater application, but also helping him out in field position. He seems to feed on self-confidence and goes to another level when things are going right. Kicking is an important part of that, as after a bad kick he tends to dissappear.
