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  • Originally posted by Jacks Fur Coat View Post
    We probably didn't deserve to win despite the bombed tries and close calls.

    Thought our best were Crichton and Collins, and credit to Teddy for busting a butt to get us moving.

    Not uncommon for us early in the season. As long as we still have the hunger, we can always recover. Flanagan a concern but don't want to sack someone after two games.

    TIT.
    Yeh Crichton was excellent. Really promising signs. Will be interesting to see what Robbo does next week with Cords ready to start.

    I thought as a whole our forward pack were tremendous tonight. Territory was something ridiculous like 70-30.

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    • Originally posted by Thirteen View Post

      Manly was on our line once. They scored. They repelled our attack. We had good quality ball in that game and great field position. I don’t think we were the better side at all.
      It genuinely wasn't close, made 400 more metres, 5 clean line breaks to 1 - Manly from the 20th minute never looked like worrying us. We bombed 3 tries and had another 1 questionably called a strip. Manly's middle wasn't good, their props were dominated by ours - match thrown.

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      • terribly disappointing, but not all bad. we should have won. if keary grounds the ball we would have. cords and j moz in next week. Flanagan is going ok , as someone mentioned on here cronk took time to find his feet with us. what I'm worried about is the stat that says when we are 0 and 2 we miss the finals , have done last 5 times. disappointed but hopeful .

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        • The team is in a slight rebuild /Dont you listen to what your coach said in the preseason.
          The more games under our belt and they will get better all these teams have had trial matches and 9's .
          I expect us to be right for the souffs game and start a winning roll.
          Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe

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          • Originally posted by milanja View Post
            That games on Keary unfortunately, we definitely miss Boyd’s toughness out there.

            for those that like the stat that in every year we have won a premiership we lose the first game, well, every time we have started a season 0-2, we have missed the 8.
            We lost the first 3 in 80 and won the minor premiership. That's 2 bombed wins in a row.

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            • Crichton was great but Turbo was superman.
              Keary lost us the game with a very lazy put down.
              Very disappointed in Victor, really has been one of my favourites but basic mistakes, that hospital pass to Teddy was so bad.
              Two close losses, reminds me of last year when we lost to Souths, I came away very confident, something just feels different this year.
              We really miss Cronk but that was expected.
              Cant wait for the Souths game!

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              • We aren’t going to be none and three. Poor Souths!

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                • Times like this I remember that we are still B2B champions!

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                  • Disappointing to lose because we are better than that effort. Flanno has to run to the advantage line before passing to Keary. He’s accurate but a bit slow. Hopefully he will get better after a couple more games. Not giving Keary any room to run the ball and create space for the outside backs. The defence is on top of Keary straight away. It will take time for the spine to gel. We have to be patient. We will get better!

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                    • 72% completions.
                      44 missed tackles.
                      Disappointing.
                      Don’t deserve a win with stats like that.

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                      • The forwards battled hard and I think they were generally good. Flanagan was poor, Keary is the only option and the opposition know it. Morris at centre doesn’t work. He didn’t play bad but he weakens the combo with Manu. Playing Verrils for 5 mins is a stupid joke and wastes a bench spot. This is one criticism I have of Robbo, this dumb bench shit has gone on for years. Teddy and Toups tried hard. Tough loss imo.

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                        • Originally posted by The Marshall View Post
                          The forwards battled hard and I think they were generally good. Flanagan was poor, Keary is the only option and the opposition know it. Morris at centre doesn’t work. He didn’t play bad but he weakens the combo with Manu. Playing Verrils for 5 mins is a stupid joke and wastes a bench spot. This is one criticism I have of Robbo, this dumb bench shit has gone on for years. Teddy and Toups tried hard. Tough loss imo.
                          Verrills played 20 minutes.

                          Curious who else would you have played tonight and then whose minutes would you have sacrificed to play that player?

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                          • Originally posted by Rooster_6 View Post

                            Verrills played 20 minutes.

                            Curious who else would you have played tonight and then whose minutes would you have sacrificed to play that player?
                            Do you think we have gotten any value with sam on the bench this year, and would you have him there when cordner and butcher are back next week?

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                            • Originally posted by milanja View Post

                              Do you think we have gotten any value with sam on the bench this year, and would you have him there when cordner and butcher are back next week?
                              I think there's a few things to weigh up.

                              1) Verrills is most likely our back up half should an injury occur in game
                              2) I wouldn't want to take any more minutes off Collins, Butcher, Liu, JWH, SST or Radley. Taking minutes off your top 6 middles to give minutes to your 7th best middle just doesn't make sense to me, none of those players are over worked.
                              3) I think you've also got to plan for the future. We have been caught short with Cronk's retirement, Drew Hutchinson ended up being our 2nd choice half by the end of Cronk's tenure. We can't afford for that to happen in our succession planning at dummy half. It's almost as an important position as your halfback and there's a very similar lack of quality options in the competition right now and I feel like Verrills has huge potential that requires development.

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                              • Originally posted by Rooster_6 View Post

                                I think there's a few things to weigh up.

                                1) Verrills is most likely our back up half should an injury occur in game
                                2) I wouldn't want to take any more minutes off Collins, Butcher, Liu, JWH, SST or Radley. Taking minutes off your top 6 middles to give minutes to your 7th best middle just doesn't make sense to me, none of those players are over worked.
                                3) I think you've also got to plan for the future. We have been caught short with Cronk's retirement, Drew Hutchinson ended up being our 2nd choice half by the end of Cronk's tenure. We can't afford for that to happen in our succession planning at dummy half. It's almost as an important position as your halfback and there's a very similar lack of quality options in the competition right now and I feel like Verrills has huge potential that requires development.
                                We won a comp with Verrills, I know its not panic stations and of course Robbo knows best but maybe he should be starting?

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