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I reckon their biggest problem is the pack(outised of AFB and Tohu) Last year Jackson Ford was playing the house down, this year he's been, well ****'s And i reckon Niukuore is a massive loss, last year he was so hard to handle such a massive threat outside johnson that meant defenders couldnt just ...

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actually, here is Annisley - regarding the rule change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfY8RJY-ZiU Interesting. That's exactly what happened with Hudson then. Could hear Atkins call surrender The new rule stinks, but that is now the rule. New rule or not, When was the last time someone was penalis...

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Rick's reverted to what he knows, grind ball, we have zero structure so probably more chance of keeping within 20 this way. I suppose he was never going to dump his two most experienced spine players in Levi and Starling despite how putrid they were with the other spine members available. Some of th...

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Hookers really the only position that can make a significant difference imo. we'll see if Levi really was hooked or if Stuart just noticed he wasn't keeping up and gave him a breather(not keeping up after 20 odd minutes isnt nrl standard but i have a feeling Stuart will see what he wants to see in r...

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BadnMean, with the young criticism, you’re right, he does an insane amount of scramble work but he is playing to 1/10th of what we have seen him play. He just isn’t delivering. A week or two in Reggies might wake him up. He is well below par atm. Yeah Youngs in poor form no doubt but i reckon our h...

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Our best season overall recently but especially from our Hookers coincided with Ennis being a coaching consultant, I think he then went to Parramatta where Reed Mahoney and Parra looked very good, Sharks last year where they finished 5th and Manly this year(currently 4th)
Pay him

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gangrenous wrote: ↑April 23, 2024, 7:15 am Thursday is ANZAC day. Surely nothing is happening Thursday!

No Ethans signing won't be announced untill Sandersday, pretty simple really

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We lost one player in the second half and as a result it looked like 7 players were playing a different position??? What the hell is going on with our interchange? Said it last week but I never want to see Levi or Starling in the 17 again yet alone on at the same time. Sent from my iPhone using Tap...

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Sandon Smith from the chooks is a guy I'd be keen to pursue as a 9. I’d go the other Smith That contract has been a disaster for them, he’s not played very well although I thought his last few weeks before I left were solid He’d be a big bet and one that could go wrong… but it’s a bet I’d make eyes...

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Cotric's problem is he went to Sydney/Bulldogs. He lost direction being away from Mum, didn't really fit in and worst the dogs training ( or his away from the club training with mansour etc) changed his shape and style. I've seen this notion thrown around quite a bit that the dogs move ruined his c...

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I like schiller, have wanted him to see more first grade for some time but I kind of get why we wouldn't want to pay too much for him, I reckon his best position is right centre and the problem is he ain't better than matty Timoko so you wouldn't want to overspend. Also think Asomua's style and phys...

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I am expecting to see SimiS named later today. That will be a good thing. I have been impressed with what he has produced so far in Green. Have to feel for ZacH though. I'm expecting Ata in the starting side, Simi on the bench. Ata was very good on an edge v Titans. He's a good footballer. yea hes ...

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If we ever have a game officiated by Badger, hold down all day, have your hands all over the ball and know she will never make a call on the fly. So take the tackle before the bunker can fix her mistake. Except for, y’know, all the restarts and penalties she blew and the fact she got the majority o...

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afgtnk wrote: ↑April 14, 2024, 8:28 pm Joe Tapine

26 runs
303 metres
134 post contact metres
33 tackles

That's ridiculous, a few players get 300m but it's normally fullbacks getting half of those in cheap metres off kick returns etc. He was enormous

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Last week were were awesome spreading the ball and creating space for our outside backs. This week we continually turned it back inside and didn't get any decent ball to our wingers. We all know HSS can get lost in defense at centre. Can't remember really testing him at any stage. I actually think ...

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Our best attacking football since leipana?

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to be fair we have dominated posession in both games so far so that would throw his work rate stats off a bit, probably need a few more games to get an accurate look at things Come on Kiwi! You didnt think i come prepared for this... https://i.imgur.com/b0pr3cV.png What ever impact possession had w...

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As is usual for me, I'll be interested to see how DL performs defensively against the Warriors pack. I was curious about this, because i felt the same about his performance defensively being poor, in both work rate and efficiency, but understanding my own bias i wanted to get a more objective look ...

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Assume horsburgh will play nsw cup to get minutes under his belt?

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Bay53 wrote: ↑March 19, 2024, 3:03 pm Isn’t Horsburgh suspended? He got 4 weeks for fighting the charge and losing. It would have been 3 with an early guilty plea.

Has already served 4, suspended from the hit on jenson in the broncos game in round 26, missed sharks rnd 27 last year , Knights final and 2 rounds this year

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Neeeegz wrote: ↑March 16, 2024, 8:44 pm Horse isn't available until round 4.

4 game ban from the broncos game in round 26, missed round 27 vs sharks , finals game vs Knights and rounds 1 and 2 this year. I'm not great at maths but I reckon that's 4 done

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So Horse is available? And what about Kris given the 6 day turnaround? Hopefully just Horse for Guler Switch on fella, Horse is available rnd 4. Next week is rnd 3. One week short of seeing Horse. Pretty sure horse is available this week, got 4 weeks, served 2 last year, I know this because round 3...

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So Horse is available? And what about Kris given the 6 day turnaround? Hopefully just Horse for Guler Switch on fella, Horse is available rnd 4. Next week is rnd 3. One week short of seeing Horse. Pretty sure horse is available this week, got 4 weeks, served 2 last year, I know this because round 3...

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Honestly Whitehead can't just walk into the starting 13. Hosking's has been brilliant . He has to retain the right side 2nd row position. Smithies is our lock , which means Horse moves to the front row. Guler to drop out. We are developing into a good team , we have strong platform with our forward...

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DWZ scored 21 tries last year, i'd be staggered if CNK didnt play a major part in at least half of those whether he got the TA for it is another matter.
Johnson is obviously a major factor, but so is the attacking structure(coaching)

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Great competitive test match. Kiwis dropped catches killed them. Yea the Ravindra drop of marsh was huge, also the coin toss win for Australia probably turned our pretty important with 14 wickets on day 1. Still at least we were competitive, big step up from wellington where I think the fact we har...

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Azza wrote: ↑March 11, 2024, 12:17 pm I don’t care what 2020 aficionados like red rocket say test cricket is the best

disagree , it stinks!

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think we offered something similar to get Tapine from Newcastle.
It is what it is for the Raiders. no one else is taking our money, established top tier halves would knock us back even if we doubled that offer .

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Hagley generally pretty dead and lifeless after the first day or 2 max, looks pretty comfortable out there now(cue commentators curse)

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Wasn't flash attack wise but we seemed to have a bit of attitude about us defensively, something you can build on imo

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julian87 wrote: ↑March 7, 2024, 7:55 pm Why we didn’t put on a play off the scrum to kick for Xav Sav is unbelievable.

We were but Rapana juggled it and didn't get time for the kick

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Rapanas still the heart and soul of this team, was pretty good at fullback at the back end of last year too and didn't he win fans choice player of the year last year? We need someone in the spine that can create and isn't predictable with our hookers, Fogarty and a rookie at 5/8, Jordy's our man fo...

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julian87 wrote: ↑March 5, 2024, 8:25 pm My prediction is Cook outplaying Weekes and Being left with another less talented Hingano at 6 in NSW Cup.

Cook looks to have a bit of ball playing about him , quite nice to see considering our other halves options, just looks a natural footballer rather than someone picked on athletic abilities

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I'm no Levi fan boy but Stuart was probably never going to toss him aside after only 120mins of first grade for the club.
I also think Woolfords form was very ordinary in 2023 and people are probably remembering his 2022 season

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gangrenous wrote: ↑March 5, 2024, 5:45 pm Tapine captain hey? After Fogarty was named vice captain, what a couple of weeks ago?

Suggests to me this has been the plan for a while that Tapine would be captain and not Whitehead…

That's a really good point

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