SBW to start

[Guest]

I thought he was going to have to earn the starting spot???

Maubs better not get cut. Hopefully Kennedy is dropped for napa

[Guest]

SBW has well and truly earnt his spot. He wasn't recruited to warm the bench.

[chook 56]

More than earned it......and I am one of the nay sayers to his signing.
One of our best last week.

[007]

SBW will be better for the run. He'll do well in front of his native land, of course I'm going on the racehorse theory that some perform very well second up.

Overall I think the Roosters will do well this week. I tipped us through my heart last week and as much as I hate to admit it Souths are a good side and will give the competition a shake.

Look on the bright side, things could have been worse; Anasta could have been wearing the No.11 for us - worse still the No.6. Maloney too will be better for the run. He was a bit tentative at times but he's considered origin class.

[Guest]

Now that SBW has shaken off the cobwebs, expect a good performance from him this weekend. Along with Maloney against his former club.

[Yak]

It really worries me that Mini is the bloke that is running off Sonny. He couldn't catch a cold. If you SBW's union highlights some of his offloads are unbelievable but they don't always land in the bread basket. Mini will drop anything that isn't there. I'd have more faith in Henare Wells to make the most of Sonny's offloading ability. RTS needs to work on his support play a lot. Imo Sonny should be playing on the left edge while Cordner is out. It would be deadly with Jennings and Maloney running off him!!

[Rooster_6]

It really worries me that Mini is the bloke that is running off Sonny. He couldn't catch a cold. If you SBW's union highlights some of his offloads are unbelievable but they don't always land in the bread basket. Mini will drop anything that isn't there. I'd have more faith in Henare Wells to make the most of Sonny's offloading ability. RTS needs to work on his support play a lot. Imo Sonny should be playing on the left edge while Cordner is out. It would be deadly with Jennings and Maloney running off him!!

Yeh hopefully Maloney is following him around the pitch all game.

Already SBW put Mini into a half gap and he dropped it ffs. Willie Brown would offer better support.

[bondi-boy]

Offloads are very ill-advised if they're not right where they should be for the player running at pace to catch.

If Mini can't then catch them he should not be attempting to so, should be moved to the wing and someone who can catch them be made fullback.

[kakaruk]

The last couple of seasons mini has dropped a lot of ball in attack.There are a couple of reasons why a first grade standard player drops footballs but in minis case here are my thoughts.It appears to me that mini is taking the pass at full pace.There is no margin for error when you do this, the pass has to be perfectly floated in front of you and at chest level.The safer way to do it is to take the pass at a reduced pace and then accelerate thru the gap.Watch the replays the ball is hitting him on the hip,bouncing off his arm,he overuns the pass, if hed ease off a bit on the speed that he is trying to catch the football he would catch a lot more of them.Mabye he is doing this to compensate for a lack of acceleration who knows just my opinion.

[Headless Chook]

The last couple of seasons mini has dropped a lot of ball in attack.There are a couple of reasons why a first grade standard player drops footballs but in minis case here are my thoughts.It appears to me that mini is taking the pass at full pace.There is no margin for error when you do this, the pass has to be perfectly floated in front of you and at chest level.The safer way to do it is to take the pass at a reduced pace and then accelerate thru the gap.Watch the replays the ball is hitting him on the hip,bouncing off his arm,he overuns the pass, if hed ease off a bit on the speed that he is trying to catch the football he would catch a lot more of them.Mabye he is doing this to compensate for a lack of acceleration who knows just my opinion.

I think its simply a case of Mini looking at the gap or the defence and not watching the ball.

[Guest]

Offloads are very ill-advised if they're not right where they should be for the player running at pace to catch.

If Mini can't then catch them he should not be attempting to so, should be moved to the wing and someone who can catch them be made fullback.

I'm sure I'm dumber for having read that post.

Chook.

[Darkone]

Great memories for Sonny at Eden park

Make him your captain in Super coach, he will go ballistic!!!

[Guest]

Now that SBW has shaken off the cobwebs, expect a good performance from him this weekend. Along with Maloney against his former club.

He was good last week

[bondi-boy]

I'm sure I'm dumber for having read that post.

Chook.

Pearce and Anasta's useless passes, ...bullet-like, along the ground, in front of, behind, to Mini and other players cost us a lot of possession and momentum in matches.
Anasta's gone, but Pearce is still here.

Hopefully SBW won't be offloading the ball just for the sake of it.

[Rooster_6]

What Chook said.

Trying to blame the passes Mini receives as the reason why he drops them is probably the funniest thing I've ever read on this forum.