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Sammy Friday's role in the team?

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Tiger_Woods

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No, I'm not talking about what happened in the toilet cubicle last year.
But the role Handjob Henjak has him playing for the Broncos. As evident in Origin 2 last night, Sammy Friday is better off running out wide. He's a not a prop forward FFS!
 
It wasn't just Henjak making him play that role. Bennett had him doing that shit too.

I don't know what has to be said, but Sam MUST play out wider. He's SO much better there.
 
If anything it was bennett that instilled that in him and he just cant undo all those years of training overnight
 
Sam could run as wide as he wants but he won't get the pill with the current mind set of our coaching staff.

Ooooh don't vary our rucks too much or use width off the halves to get 1 on 1 we might drop the ball and lose.
Wake the f@#k up Henjak, we don't have the big forwards who can handle the collision and don't get turned turtle every time they get tackled.
 
I agree Sammy looks so much more dangerous playing out wide.. He has a great step good hands and could put others into gaps with a good pass or off load... Henjak Do It.. Do It
 
Thaiday looked most awesome early last season when he was playing that role. Check some highlights of Broncos vs Souths about round 8 (when Michaels got injured). Thaiday was amazing.
 
The problem is, we have Ben Te'o playing that role at the moment and while he's shown some promise - he's no Sam Thaiday.
 
Big Pete said:
The problem is, we have Ben Te'o playing that role at the moment and while he's shown some promise - he's no Sam Thaiday.

This is very true and has to make you wonder why the recruitment has gone the way it has when we have a gun like Thaiday changing his game for recruits from other clubs that aren't really that good anyway..
 
This is an amazing thread. I thought someone asked the same question about Sammy running wide a few weeks ago - with little enthusiasm from thy responses.

Even having Te'O running out wide was mentioned - and questions asked about Parker's role as our wide running forward. Does my memory serve me correctly that most were in favour of Sammy playing as an extra prop and Parker the appropriate wide-running forward.

Equally, someone posted about the fact that we're not using say Izzy like the Maroons use him (to so much better effect).

Are people waking up - especially about Henjak and the Bennett/Club legacy Which seems, IMO, to explain why we aren't really playing to the potential of our roster?

If our roster is as good as it is - and I reckon it IS good enough to get to the GF, when will the necessary changes happen. Like having Sammy running wide, like creating depth to go with our width so that players like Sammy, Izzy, Hodgo and even Te'O are stopped being used as one-out battering rams, and given some room to move?

So does this issue not also come down to our playmakers? Posts in other threads have been made about us using effective depth in 2nd man plays using Hunt in particular in their red zone, but we do bugger all outside it.

Unless we stop the style of play we are currently using - and IMO, it hasn't varied much for 7 years, we are going to go nowhere this year.

At least this thread hasn't yet mentioned â€individual brilliance“ as being some magic formula for the Broncos to be a real force in this competition.
 
R, some people on here are very slow to get it.
I remember what you said and I do believe I agreed with your comments.
 
Coxy said:
Thaiday looked most awesome early last season when he was playing that role. Check some highlights of Broncos vs Souths about round 8 (when Michaels got injured). Thaiday was amazing.

I honestly can't recall much about that game (I never seem to recall matches against Souths, unless we were ordinary) except for Moon scoring in the closing stages. I do recall Thaiday being sublime against the Tigers though.

You make some great points rna-jibberish and I can't believe Henjack hasn't at least made some subtle changes to the Broncos style. With a much more mobile and younger pack you'd have to think being able to get into formation wouldn't be that big a problem yet week after week it's always that period where our forwards get tired and we bunch around the dummy half area where we're extremely vulnerable. If Henjack and the rest of the coaching staff could've taken anything out of this State of Origin series it's how important consistent structure is to a football side. Queensland were always in formation and as a result were always likely of scoring points.

IMO both the backs and the forwards need to be addressed. If I had it my way it'd go like this.

Opposition kicks it over to Hunt, Hunt retrieves it and runs 10-20m before getting snapped. Quick play the ball to Hodges who runs in-field and gets a quick play the ball away to the dummy half. Dummy half runs a bit out of dummy half with a forward in support and asks questions of the defence - preferably have Lockyer/Wallace running behind the forward to create the second man play and address the fringe of the ruck. Tackle and go from there, see what options are open and take them asap.

The problem is we seem to do this.

Hunt slowly gets the ball, gingerly dummies to his winger before getting submerged by a sea of defenders. Gets up and Winterstein runs in-field and gets hammered. Play the ball, Michaels gets it runs 7 metres the open side before getting snaped...slow as hell play the ball, dummy half straight to a prop who's met in a sea of defenders. Hodges may come in at this rate and run in-field a bit, quick play the ball and Wallace kicks it straight down the throat of the winger/fullback who's been there since tackle 4. It just isn't good enough and unless we're awarded a penalty in which case our team actually switches on, we're never likely.
 

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