Official Round 2 vs Storm Match Discussion

[capt obvious]

My question to the kennel is this: if we select Karl Oloapu sometime soon and he has a bad one (which I hope he doesn't) will you all turn on him or will you give him time to learn and grow?

Ill never knock him for having a crack, our halves have no clue at end of sets

 

[dogwhisperer]

Storm depth isn't what it used to be though, they look very weak right now. Some of the guys on their bench wouldn't even make our 17 right now imo.

It’s not about that. Whoever comes in they just do their job properly and play to Bellemy’s game plan and they clean us up. Doesn’t take much to beat us. Seen it all before. Grant and Hughes will pull our pants down

 

[bradyk]

Welch we have our own Max king who's better, and rfm and kikau in the back row is better than their starting backrow... Katoa is good but hasn't really shown much yet

Well I think after the game you won't have the same opinion so let's wait for that.

 

[AlzzBulldog]

Well I think after the game you won't have the same opinion so let's wait for that.

We may very well lose but looking at the pack, we have a lot more potential than what they showed last week.. yes we are weak in the forwards but there's a lot more to it than what they showed last week

 

[judyisapunk]

We’ve been without a 7 for so long some of us fans have forgotten how one is suppose to play.

Ours improves his defence & try’s hard and some think that’s putting in a good 7’s knock ..

DCE schooled us on Saturday & reminded us of what it’s like to have a 7 that has the running passing and precise kicking skills that a 7 needs to have, including how to play both sides of the field and manage the team around the park.

And before some one brings up experience, DCE was doing that at 22, had won a premiership playing like that and was getting $1.2 offers.

The Flano experiment has to end, he unfortunately just doesn’t have those skills, and as @D-VOICE said, we have a disconnect, and it’s the 7, that’s the last place you want a disconnect because your 7 is the most important player in your team, we’d get no worse from Hayward or Rajeb but at least with them there’s a chance they’d do better, Flano’s reached his ceiling and it’s time the tap on the shoulder came.

shame Jonah Pezet is signed till 2025 because given he won't play regular first grade for a while we could have thrown a decent offer at him.

 

[Sir dogeth style]

still not a good sign that ciraldo is putting faith so soon into an 18 year old who has only played 1 nsw cup game - thats desperation

Ciraldo probably has more faith in a halfback from an under 8s team than he does flanno but he has to choose from what he has available lol

 

[KiwiDog7]

Can we all agree now that Ciraldo is an idiot?

Not necessarily, I can see his logic …it’s only been one game so why throw the baby out with the bath water?

He puts his faith into the 17 that got pumped and they perform to repay his faith

Makes wholesale changes with cup players then run the risk of dividing the changing room after 1 full game.

Damn if he does damn if he doesn’t scenario

 

[Sir dogeth style]

honestly i dont think brown at lock is a bad idea, he is a hooker/half he is use to making many tackles and has ball playing skills so its just about letting him get use to that role and adjusting to it

just because he didnt turn into (Isaah Brown or Nu Yeo) in one game doesnt mean he isnt suitable for the role lol

 

[silva]

Why not blood Oleapu in the centres

 

[Sir dogeth style]

Why not blood Oleapu in the centres

because he is a half back and thats what we need him to focus on and stay as lol

 

[KiwiDog7]

Ciraldo best selection is putting young Karl on the extended bench, one to reward him for his performance last week but more importantly finally showing media + fans that Flanagan has been put on notice and over his shoulder is a young kid ready to take that opportunity with both hands.

Plot twist it’s actually Burton on notice…..

 

[AlzzBulldog]

Not necessarily, I can see his logic …it’s only been one game so why throw the baby out with the bath water?

He puts his faith into the 17 that got pumped and they perform to repay his faith

Makes wholesale changes with cup players then run the risk of dividing the changing room after 1 full game.

Damn if he does damn if he doesn’t scenario

What happens if they don't repay.. we just delaying the inevitable.. I hope they can turn it around

 

[KiwiDog7]

It was so predictable, crazy decision to give him a top 30 spot. Groin so he will be out a few weeks.

I hurt my groin and still played 8 games of touch footy over 3 days at Nationals FFS [emoji23]

 

[SPEARTAKVIDREFS]

We’ve been without a 7 for so long some of us fans have forgotten how one is suppose to play.

Ours improves his defence & try’s hard and some think that’s putting in a good 7’s knock ..

DCE schooled us on Saturday & reminded us of what it’s like to have a 7 that has the running passing and precise kicking skills that a 7 needs to have, including how to play both sides of the field and manage the team around the park.

And before some one brings up experience, DCE was doing that at 22, had won a premiership playing like that and was getting $1.2 offers.

The Flano experiment has to end, he unfortunately just doesn’t have those skills, and as @D-VOICE said, we have a disconnect, and it’s the 7, that’s the last place you want a disconnect because your 7 is the most important player in your team, we’d get no worse from Hayward or Rajeb but at least with them there’s a chance they’d do better, Flano’s reached his ceiling and it’s time the tap on the shoulder came.

Watching the game on the weekend, I noticed on 2 occasions Reed went to go right, seen flano and immediately turned and went left like he didnt want to know about him. It didnt look like dummy type stuff trying to throw the opposition.
Maybe in the heat of the moment Reeds natural instinct kicked in and he went back to the left.
Or maybe I read something that wasnt there, who knows.

 

[KiwiDog7]

What happens if they don't repay.. we just delaying the inevitable.. I hope they can turn it around

Yeah not sure bro , I’m just playing devils advocate after 5 beers to be honest [emoji23]

 

[Scoooby]

You better prepare to rub one out to Ciraldo’s masterclass.

Oh Very prepared, I would love nothing more to be proven wrong !!, but I don’t think my odds of being correct are to bad Safe as haha !!

 

[Doogie]

Watching the game on the weekend, I noticed on 2 occasions Reed went to go right, seen flano and immediately turned and went left like he didnt want to know about him. It didnt look like dummy type stuff trying to throw the opposition.
Maybe in the heat of the moment Reeds natural instinct kicked in and he went back to the left.
Or maybe I read something that wasnt there, who knows.

well after the weekend - now he'll just go fck it and he'll go up the middle.

B4 we resigned Burton, said to ditch him and throw the book at Munster. Got pasted for it. Burton $750k, Munster ended up on a million.

Sucks to be right....

 

[craigo]

took Karl all of 1 week to be named in the reserves lol

Cause Reynolds is injured

 

[Doggiezbrah]

It was so predictable, crazy decision to give him a top 30 spot. Groin so he will be out a few weeks.

That’s why the shouts of him starting in FG were absurd. He is better than Flanagan but cannot stay fit. I wonder how people thought he would be able to adapt to the NRL after years away being injured in the SL.

 

[Mr. Ditkovich]

Why not blood Oleapu in the centres

After the last week of reading Kennel threads, I genuinely can’t tell if this is a joke referring to Burton at Penrith or if it’s a serious suggestion lol