What looked like a dream start half turned into a nightmare losing Burton out key player (haters must be happy now ) then Ciro baffling decisions to reinvent the wheel and Wilson exposed
If Ciro likely goes Mann, Sitili and Curran - latter two prop interchange and Mann 13 replacement and Haywood stints Reed then that make sense but brace yourself for Haywood playing in the middle just not at hooker
That last 20 min double change with Haywood and Salmon to join Reed in the middle against Titans mammoth pack is going to be a slow motion car crash !
Please Ciro just put Hayes back on the bench !
Right edge defence has been a worry for a few games dating back to end of last season
We need this addressed still got anxiety from when Manly scored that miracle try and beat every right edge defender
Yeah the fade out was disappointing but Dragons took advantage of Critta injury with two late tries and Liddell quick tap caught too many of our boys asleep at the wheel
The Dragons will beat a few sides this season …just not us
That makes winning sweeter cos past seasons we get fkd by the ref and we slump to defeat after defeat …we could’ve dropped our bundle today especially the first half
I couldn’t remember exactly who rubbished the signing but remember seeing a few comments over summer lol
got to hand it to Ciro he got Sitil sorted from the get go where Robbo had no idea
3. Sitili …my Doko!!
2. Hayes
1. Tracey
The game was in the balance until that trio of Mann, Hayes and Sitili came on and the blew the game open for us
They go off and Dragons mount an unlikely comeback
The way Ciro was grinning like Cheshire Cat when talking about the physicality Sitili brings is why he’s comfortable playing him through the middle
this will either be a coaching masterstroke or disaster and wasted opportunity to not add another big like Todd or Zyon ..or even play Morrin (middle)
They also have Gutho
dragons are capable of an ambush / upset so we need to come out the blocks nice and early to establish the lead and shut them out
don’t play with our food
Addressing the FB situation and I’d like to preface this by saying I’m a big Connor Tracey fan, but those school boy drops in the trial have carried over from 2024 (the one that hurt us was the Manly try in the qualifying final). The other aspect of his play I want to see better improvement on...
The good thing is we threw fk all shape yesterday and played as bad as we did in the last two regular season games last season which means Flanno Snr has little to work with on video and game plans
I’m confident that trial game is the worst game Connor will have this year
that was his worst game in our colours maybe his career but who cares it was only a trial didn’t cost us competition points
Such a bad call ..Mann literally let them reset their defence line and then said watch this and beat 5 guys to the try line fk he’s becoming my fav player now
The key objective today was ks in the legs, some solid contact and getting the reps in
that said there were poor individual performances across the park through a Cbf attitude/don’t want to get injured in a trial game
that’s all good and well if we turn up in round one and win
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