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A thread for the realists who aren't overly surprised by the results/performances and want to rationally discuss the game.
A few points;
- Latrell Mitchell continues to surprise me, we all knew he had talent but for an 18 year old kid he's more than holding his own. His workrate in attack has been really impressive, whilst Sheck was all about yardage and he was exceptional the one criticism of him was that he never had the energy to be the attacking weapon he probably should've been for us in attacking positions. Latrell Mitchell seems to be the opposite, it's all about conserving energy for big plays and letting his wingers do the grunt work. He hasn't been perfect, he's made a few costly errors but overall for an 18 year old I'm excited and a little surprised.
- Dale Copley's injury opens an interesting door, the three options are to bring Burgess in and shift SKD to centre, bring Elliott in directly to centre or give Joey Manu ago. As much as I'd love to see Joey Manu get a go maybe now is not the right time.
- Jackson Hastings is stagnating a bit in his development, I'd like to see him start to show some progression of the lessons he's learnt in the first few games.
- Mitch Frei looked promising, a fundamental error which cost us but he looked extremely mobile, made decent yards and worked his ass off in defence.
- Sam Moa is back to his 2013 form, extremely promising stuff.
I feel like the key will be keeping this group as mentally fresh as possible, there's no point beating them up every week only for JWH, Cordner & Pearce to return to a team with no confidence and morale. A win soon is a must, tonight was a poor result for a number of reasons.
A few points;
- Latrell Mitchell continues to surprise me, we all knew he had talent but for an 18 year old kid he's more than holding his own. His workrate in attack has been really impressive, whilst Sheck was all about yardage and he was exceptional the one criticism of him was that he never had the energy to be the attacking weapon he probably should've been for us in attacking positions. Latrell Mitchell seems to be the opposite, it's all about conserving energy for big plays and letting his wingers do the grunt work. He hasn't been perfect, he's made a few costly errors but overall for an 18 year old I'm excited and a little surprised.
- Dale Copley's injury opens an interesting door, the three options are to bring Burgess in and shift SKD to centre, bring Elliott in directly to centre or give Joey Manu ago. As much as I'd love to see Joey Manu get a go maybe now is not the right time.
- Jackson Hastings is stagnating a bit in his development, I'd like to see him start to show some progression of the lessons he's learnt in the first few games.
- Mitch Frei looked promising, a fundamental error which cost us but he looked extremely mobile, made decent yards and worked his ass off in defence.
- Sam Moa is back to his 2013 form, extremely promising stuff.
I feel like the key will be keeping this group as mentally fresh as possible, there's no point beating them up every week only for JWH, Cordner & Pearce to return to a team with no confidence and morale. A win soon is a must, tonight was a poor result for a number of reasons.
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