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State of Origin Rep
- Dec 4, 2013
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With Flegler and Kaufusi (who would've fired up to have his once in a season game) out the phins seriously have zero quality in their pack.
He ran a great line and then got a lightning quick ptb to set it up as welllook at the big goates jumping and punching the air. how can you not love him
Great line by oates. He saw Hughes sliding and just shifted his angle to hit the gap. Forced a legs tackle, unorganised line and ben barges over.All i want to see is Milf and Kodi standing on the goal line together and seeing this bloke winding up...
And how serious they are. A 1-2 week injury for anyone we can manage. It is when it starts to get above 4-5 weeks it becomes problematic.We're going to have injuries - it's a contact sport. The key problem for us is the who and how many all at once.
This is all well and good, and I share the sentiment. But do you not think that in the midst of a bout of injuries, where our best middle is out, and we allowed our next two most accomplished middles leave, that there is justification for Carrigan playing longer minutes for a few weeks and then reducing his time or giving him a week off once the injuries abate?I'd suggest that you'd also want to preserve your biggest investments and ensure their longevity.
Carrigan is earmarked as a future captain and long-term player, and we are compensating him now commensurate to his performance and value (may actually be paying him unders...). If we want him to maintain his form and impact for the longest period possible, we should be managing his minutes so there is a balance between him having an impact on each game, but ensuring he is not overworked.
Yeah I know, I said at the time how ridiculous it was.A lot of us on here questioned it as well...
Who is last in the regained percentage?
Would also be interested on how effective receiving teams are at defusing short kick offs... feel like we really struggle when teams kick short to us.
Have we actually defused a short drop out this year??
With Flegler and Kaufusi (who would've fired up to have his once in a season game) out the phins seriously have zero quality in their pack.
people need to mix it up. Do the Benny Hunt origin trick. Straight, on the ground and rush it. Decent chance any receiver bobbles a worm burner while the defence rushes it.Dragons 42 drop outs, 17 short, 1 success.
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Always thought arey should aim for the sidelines he seems pretty good at catching the opposition out with thempeople need to mix it up. Do the Benny Hunt origin trick. Straight, on the ground and rush it. Decent chance any receiver bobbles a worm burner while the defence rushes it.
This exactly. There needs to be an element of risk here for the receiving team. Knowing the majority of our kicks are going to favour the our left and will land around the 15m mark means they just stack that position every drop out. We need to show randomness so they can't prepare for what's almost now a set play every drop out.Always thought arey should aim for the sidelines he seems pretty good at catching the opposition out with them
people need to mix it up. Do the Benny Hunt origin trick. Straight, on the ground and rush it. Decent chance any receiver bobbles a worm burner while the defence rushes it.
Reminds me of a few years ago Cowboys vs Storm. Thurston kicked off low and hard and it sort of grubbered out the sideline. He did it a couple of times and it worked great. I remember the commentators saying he was giving up some maroons tactic but I hadn’t seen him do it again.I agree, when the Walkers were doing it 10 years ago they had different players to do different kicks and assigned roles for those kicks.
Capewell would kick the high rugby type one that would land on the 11m mark.
The grubber straight at the big dumb prop was drilled at him to drop from kick offs by someone different.
They had three or four types of kick and four different people to do it.
This is all well and good, and I share the sentiment. But do you not think that in the midst of a bout of injuries, where our best middle is out, and we allowed our next two most accomplished middles leave, that there is justification for Carrigan playing longer minutes for a few weeks and then reducing his time or giving him a week off once the injuries abate?