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Kikau is arguably our most important player right now …he is in destructive form with ball in hand plus look at the different variations on our left edge shape …he drops under and the defence stops which opens up Burton to hit Tracey in space who gets it to Fox…or Burton plays short to Xerri...

3 premiership in the last decade does give a coach more leverage to be fair BA has won shit

I do like our current back 5 2012 was a good back 5 too some workers mixed with X factor 1. Barba 2. Wright 3. J Moz 4. Inu 5. Perrett

If he somehow wins the case the precedent set would allow every past and present player sue their club (or former clubs ) for an easy money grab case citing “unfair and tough working conditions” which some people call hard work and in line with your profession and pay bracket

I’d rather Hutchinson than Sezer 2024 version that’s saying something!

Yet they only took one quick look and ruled NO TRY!!

Buzz will prob say “the Harold Matt’s team lost to warriors and isn’t Gus in charge of pathway and development “ He will find something to hate

Today was a 6 point win with the BYE and we will beat Tiger Top 8 finish on what we have witnessed through 7 weeks is not out of the question!

To be fair Berries said he was sitting in the nose bleeds with the sun in his face (he may have been 6 beers deep too) I agree with your points on Hutch..he does get involved a lot and is trying but just frustrating to see him stifle the right edge for 7 rounds only to see Taffe unlock it...

Penalty count was 6-2 in favour of Knights Set rstarts 4-1 in favour of Knights not to mention 3 out of that 4 were given on the 5th tackle Add in the no six again ruling when Kikau made the break in first half plus video ref ruling on a forward pass for the first time in NRL history

They just beat Storm at home and Storm were missing Hughes, Munster and Solomona yet we almost beat near full strength Storm in Melbourne they lost to roosters missing Teddy and Walker we beat full strength roosters yet we were underdog haha

Special mention to Mahoney (sin bin took polish off) Hughes and Kiraz

3. Curran 2. Burton 1. Tracey

Hutch didn’t play well bro hahhahha

Ciro confirmed Preston and Mann back as well after the bye Only way Hutchinson is out is if he’s dropped so on the assumption he’s dropped for two weeks for deliberate kicking/tripping 1. Tracey 2. Kiraz 3. Xerri 4. Critta 5. Fox 6. Burton 7. Taffe 8. King 9. Reed 10. Hughes 11. Kikau 12...

Fk Hethrington a loose cannon great work from Gussy to get rid of that liability and also picking up Curran

Yea, Knights Tofa Mai feleni

How good is it to sit and watch the boys play over cold ones and no heart attack material !!

Told you I had that titans game feeling !! unhappy with conceding that last try but fk we won easily

Swap for a prop Sexton is 3rd in pecking order

Knights only try came due to weight of possessions this 6 restart on the last is taking the piss ref

Just insurance Tracey looked hurt early and I didn’t bat eyelid knowing he was on bench

Knights are 6.50

Need him to fantasy nrl reasons

18-6 is great considering we lost Patolo first minute and the ref is a Kant and our completions sucks hold the ball we kill these kants

Glad that guy Fitzgibbon not playing he turned into prime SBW against us last season

Let’s just wait and see champ

That’s a weak knights team with no Gagai or Frizell then that late switch Gamble for Cogger like they had a fkn ace up their sleeve

Doesn’t really matter the way Ciro works his bench

Great opportunity to shoot up the ladder this round

Eels quit no mas cowards

That rookie fullback is awesome

Jake’s scoring a double when we play fins

We overtake the Eels if we …sorry when we pump Knights

Prob the only good thing Pay did was turn him into a hooker

JMK did what I wish Reed would do Run direct off. Fast play the ball

We haven’t beaten Wahs since Lewis landed that FG can’t remember last time we beat the Broncos or Panthers

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We all but beat them 2017 I think at Belmore before Joey Leilua steamrolled the twins and scored the winner on the buzzer ‍♂️

Storm could easily be down the ladder that’s 4 games they have won at the death

Teddy and JWH are washed ! Roosters need Walker out there creative half

This week I’ve had the same feeling leading up to the Titans game I expect the same result too

I had dinner with some mates I haven’t caught up with in years, all footy heads (Wah and broncos supporters mostly) and one of them brought up the dogs and all of them said the same thing about us looking competitive and “will challenge for the 8” I just said to them “man, it’s just good to...

Kudos to Ciro for sticking with Tracey this super sub experiment better work better than starting Turpin at lock

We won’t next time lose to either of these teams

Sharts are pretenders too

Definitely failed it purposely

Burton isn’t elite 6 But he’s the best 6 at Belmore

Ok, Mulitalo still a grub though

Late and high (HIA)

That’s got to hurt Mulitalo cheap shot stays on then sets up a try I would feel sorry for other team usually but it’s Souffs

Cows are not the real deal

If Ponga plays we still win

Waddell still the same penalty machine error prone guy bombed a try too

If Ciro planned to give Patolo and KK junk mins then he was better off playing Knight for his journeyman experience out there

Wilson illness bad timing cos in two weeks he’s gone from likely to stay in FG and ahead of Xerri to back to reserve grade

Tuesday team announcement will be interesting especially the back 5. Tracey won’t be dropped but will he still be fullback? Or Taffe comes back Fox and Kiraz are locks and Critta which leaves Xerri who played solid in his club debut then went nuts vs the Storm so that’s two heavyweight teams...

Because Xerri hasn’t played FG in 3 years and needed to get reps in reserves and improve some defensive aspects of his game ….gets called up week 5 and hits the ground running so kudos to him for doing the work

The biggest compliment CC has got was tonight from Bellamy who said he is impressed with our side and the way in which we have a tailored game plan worked around the type of roster we have i.e small ball pack so up tempo game and hunt in numbers on defence

He varied his kicks tonight which was good especially short kicks were accurate but general kicking wasn’t that great tonight apart from that bomb which gave Kiraz time to contest and win. Peach of a ball for Fox 3rd try and defence was great. He did take the line on a couple times … If he...

Our defence also is so much improved on last season. We need to be fit to play the up tempo defensive plan and we are

The difference between last season and now is he actually has a roster of players that play for him and believe in his systems He’s starting to find his feet as a FG coach and just needs to improve his rotations and in game adjustments ie having two interchanges left up your sleeve at FT when...

Look at who we have lost and we still go down to Melbourne and almost do the impossible Dolphins top of the table always * haven’t left QLD yet

He needs to run more to take pressure off the halves and give our attack another dimension he’s definitely playing better than last season though

I’ve been telling anyone that would listen Fins top of the table was due to the easiest draw in the comp as well as their BYE play a decent team and they fold like a cheap suit

The ref wasn’t too bad considering his first gig

Someone needs to tip him up “hey bro you’re allowed to scoot from dummy half especially on quick PTB and or when the defence has one marker at times “ We just need another facet to our attack because before the year is out good teams will come with a game plan to stop out left edge

10-0 down at halftime the dogs teams of past 7 years lose that by 40 plus I’m proud of the effort especially rookie Hayward defending in the middle like a veteran. So much to like on left edge Xerri far better second half to cement his spot for next week…in fact don’t change the back 5 ...

Let Critta kick

Storm just have too much class in the spine to get them home, we can hold our heads high we actually have a team ripping in every week that we can be proud of Tough draw to open the season now we get to play meh teams which we should beat and claim the odd heavyweight scalp along the way

He was absolutely diabolical tonight , he can’t attack to save himself, no vision , no threat and if you can’t attack at least clean up the ball (Storm second try) I don’t care who goes in out of Taffe, Sexton or Hayward they will all do a better job

Very proud of the boys , so much disruption against full strength Storm in Melbourne and they only won because Burton missed conversions 3. Kikau 2. Tracey 1. Addo Carr Xerri also break out game don’t change the back 5 put Taffe at 7

Stats wise Storm should be up 20 plus

Storm obviously can’t handle our left edge so why doesn’t Ciro swap Critta and Xerri so Critta can unleash Fox more Turpin experiment not working though can’t knock his defence Storm are there for the taking they had all the ball who 88% completion and only up 10 we bombed couple of...

Obviously Ciro sticking as close as possible to playing the same shape so with Mann out he must see that Turpin and Hayward can best execute the game plan

ponga surely gone for next week at least

In fact we better win by 20 I don’t care as much about tomorrow as I do about avenging 2023 66-0 v Knights

I will be very surprised if we don’t beat the Knights next week

I like him at Centre as well, that said at the back he has great comms, good under the high ball, good hands on back door sweep and his PCM will definitely help too

Storm spine is world class

No one will stand out tonight i guarantee that

We are playing tomorrow night with house money, written off by all and sundry as reflected in the betting markets To that end, if they players in question are not 100% fit then rest them and target the win at home v Knights (We need to smack these guys after they embarrassed us twice last...

We are $5.90 on the NZ TAB

After watching the replay I saw the moment K Mann fractured his hand - 1 min from halftime when he smashed/trapped Jennings in the in goal

It’s disrespectful. Despite the circumstances we beat a genuine title heavyweight and have the best winning record of any team against the Storm (not to mention we beat them in round 2, 2023). Storm have been less than convincing this year and just beat the Wahs and Broncos both at home

It doesn’t looks like Skelton will get a run in the 17 which is a shame Wilson still sick? Had a virus last week. I’m guessing the plan for Hayward is to come in and play hooker and Reed goes to the 13 ball playing role …. winnable game if the game plan is sound

Put Skelton on the bench regardless. When we lose an outside back during the game it’s disruptive and if we don’t he can come on and run a muck for 15-20mins …not like we are wasting a spot or interchange cos Ciro hasn’t been good with in game adjustments and some players recently have only...

So, what’s the Wahs are doing right now is what we were supposed to do last week

Take the L this week bro You can’t shit on his virtuoso performance yesterday and I’m just annoyed I didn’t captain him in fantasy for his 88 points

Just seen it has been postponed

All week Taffe and Burton were getting slandered on here then bam!!!

It was nice reading the chook pen game thread “we should win by 30” to “sack Robbo” all within 24 pages

Surely this is a rhetorical question we all know the answer to this

3. Marley 2. Berries 1. Issac

When does the cup team play all of a sudden there’s plenty of incentive for those boys !!!

Young is overrated as fk

You’re not wrong with Storm halves kicking game and the fact it’s Melbourne in Melbourne that said Joash is the last bonafide fullback we have left standing and if he’s playing Cup for a call up one day then this presents the best opportunity to do so I have faith in the kid he strikes me as...

He’s started the season with a point to prove…he’s coming back for the best backrow tag he lost last season

At 26-0 I was looking forward to being for and against positive ffs

We actually had a good great start to last year then the wheels fell off in round 6 hope history does not repeat but I’m getting nervous with the injuries