Makes a mockery of those times that coaches/players say "we aren't concerned with the other team, we are focused on ourselves". It was obvious Melbourne were prepared on the edges for us, they combined slowing the ruck down with an emphasis on edge defense specifically as a way to close down our main attacking weapons.
Cant coach structure if coach reshuffles the team. Wakeham is in now, lets hope Baz sticks with him for a while and "coaches" this team to score some points.
I agree, I've actually been pretty happy with TPJ - at least he's making decent metres and getting offloads. It's just usually those offloads go to JMK or Jackson who just clusterfuck everything.
Would of had the same results with Lewis thus far, at a fraction of the price. If a boot is all he is going to offer bring Lewis back because he had a good kick too.
yeah exactly - and at least lewis could defend!
Bra, you have literally posted the same thing 20 times since last night mix it up a bit
only like 6
100%. He's put himself in a shit spot because it is clear that dropping Avo for Wakeham was not going to see any improvement. As a result we got worse. Now he's put Avo in centre. Whats next? Surely Flanno gets the next crack? It just gives the impression the coach has no idea what hes doing and has no clue what the solution is.
He had the most metres by a forward last night from both teams. He is doing his job. Can't blame the teams inability to create and finish opportunities on him.
He is right though. Our halves were poor and this was probably the worst performance from Burton in his career. We know he has the potential, but he's been really bad the last 2 weeks. We can't coddle him with compliments and I hope he isn't getting that from coaching staff either. He is playing below par, he needs to be told that.
I dont know what to think any more. Im over this shit and feeling let down. Time for me to do something constructive and not think about the Dogs for now.
I tend to agree about your man Averillo, he probably is the best option we have but fuck me he has had 12 months to show he is up to it and nothing as yet could convince me he would get a start in any other NRL team (tigers don't count), And that is the problem Burton is miles ahead of anything else we have but Opposition just have to target him (which storm did) and then we see what happens when we don't have a second option.Most on TK wanted that change so i hope they're enjoying it
I think Burton is massively overhyped though tbf, there's obviously plenty of issues but he isn't a shadow of the player people on here made him out to be. He still has plenty of developing to do and as we all know players don't develop at the Dogs..
So Burton gets a million excuses but they don't apply to the other players? LOL. We all lnow there's things wrong and i;ve said from the beginning i don't agree with how Baz has set the team up but it is what it is. Right now Burton is not playing any better than any of our other halves have over the years and for someone that people have up as some superstar immortal he SHOULD be doing better. He didn't show it at Penrith, he done nothing for large parts of the game in the halves and then turned it on with some great runs. There's nothing wrong with that, he's still an amazing talent but he isn't anywhere close to the type of player people have made out.
He’s going to put BBO there
Who's making excuses? I said he's played poorly the last two games. Yesterday he was forcing things because we were getting smashed and Melbourne were all up in his face all game. He didn't handle that well. He'll learn from that.
