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Bench is weak starting line up good
ben cummins is their first one pickedWhat's the pussy cats team?
don’t worry he’s a serial ball hog as long as we contain him and he’s coming off knee recon doubt he will be 100%Doueihi back from injury.
Hopefully he has a slow start back and we run over top of him.
WE WANT KLEIN. WE WANT KLEIN!! Nah but seriously, how good was not only playing well, but so good that we overcame a huge discrepancy in penalties? Klein wasn't necessarily good for us. I do prefer him in a way, as he's not a ref I can remember having problems with in the past. Our discipline still needs a lot of work, but the attack and defence was good the other day.I think everybody missed the main story...
The NRL has reacted strongly to the Bulldogs thrashing of the Parramatta Eels yesterday by appointing Ben Cummins as referee to their next game V Wests Tigers. Graham Annesley NRL head of Elite Football Competitions said "we made a BIG mistake last week & it won't be repeated this week. Ben will make sure the Bulldogs are put well & truly back in their place (last) where they belong."
The bunker was pretty good for us, who was in it?WE WANT KLEIN. WE WANT KLEIN!! Nah but seriously, how good was not only playing well, but so good that we overcame a huge discrepancy in penalties? Klein wasn't necessarily good for us. I do prefer him in a way, as he's not a ref I can remember having problems with in the past. Our discipline still needs a lot of work, but the attack and defence was good the other day.
I didn't see the game, but did read that in a discussion about his immediate release. So even if he was still there he may not have been a threat, but really, if we play anywhere near as well as Monday, we should have no problem accounting for tigs. I don't rate them at all. They don't have many threats. Douehi is their biggest probably and it's his first game back in ages. Hastings is so overrated it's hilarious. He touches the ball a lot. Big deal, it's what you do with it that matters. I did see the highlights of their last game now that I think of it and one thing I remember is him clutching at Aloai (I think) with a pathetic attempt to stop him scoring.Leilua was tanking hard if you didn't watch. Was more blatant than Wile e Coyote's feined attempts to murder Road Runner, with none of the enthusiasm.
Features in most of the tries in the highlights but it was outright obvious during the game
Yeah he has. He is one of Baz's boys. Loved him at Manly and brought him over to us. But this season he has actually been better than his standard plodder level. He's had some very good performances with a few average ones. He deserves to be in the 17.Unpopular opinion but I think Waddel has been quite good this year. Makes a few errors from trying to hard but has improved alot this year IMO
The difference was that the penalties were legitimate. Not 4th tackle restarts when the opposition needs a hand. It’s the timing of the penalties and restarts that Cummins and sutton screw us with. They time them when it has the most impact. Not to mention completely unfair sun bins.WE WANT KLEIN. WE WANT KLEIN!! Nah but seriously, how good was not only playing well, but so good that we overcame a huge discrepancy in penalties? Klein wasn't necessarily good for us. I do prefer him in a way, as he's not a ref I can remember having problems with in the past. Our discipline still needs a lot of work, but the attack and defence was good the other day.
Yeah but that was when we still had supercoach Trent. We scored a measly 4 and 6 vs. Canberra and Newcastle! Just incomprehensible tbh. Potter, with only a few days to do anything, was in the job for the Tigers match, where we lost but scored some points (22). With several weeks now getting to know the players etc. I will be disappointed in anything but a win over them, this time around.Last time we expected to win was against a clown raiders side with Elliot at hooker and look what happened lol.. we have yet to show consistency, hope we can show it this week
Probably so, but it puts how Brisbane dealt with the Haas issue in perspective. Few clubs show the staunch act works. Hell, it may not in the long run, but they nipped his request for a renegotiation in the bud quickly and it seems to have blown over. He's not playing though, so he can't tank.he was a cancer in the joint, they had to let him go. They can use that money to upgrade some contracts.
Potter did say a few weeks back that we need more game awareness in terms of our discipline. Penalties and set restarts late in the count he mentioned specifically.The difference was that the penalties were legitimate. Not 4th tackle restarts when the opposition needs a hand. It’s the timing of the penalties and restarts that Cummins and sutton screw us with. They time them when it has the most impact. Not to mention completely unfair sun bins.
When they are legitimate penalties you can fix what you did wrong not spend the rest of the game wondering what the 6 agains were actually for.
It helped that most of the pens. we conceded were down their end. I mean, that should be worse, because you're giving them easy metres towards your try line, but they didn't take advantage luckily.The difference was that the penalties were legitimate. Not 4th tackle restarts when the opposition needs a hand. It’s the timing of the penalties and restarts that Cummins and sutton screw us with. They time them when it has the most impact. Not to mention completely unfair sun bins.
When they are legitimate penalties you can fix what you did wrong not spend the rest of the game wondering what the 6 agains were actually for.
I'm with ya bro.Smashing parra won’t matter unless we back it up with a convincing win over the tigers if we manage that then I def can say we have turned the corner
Cummins is ref mate. I wouldn't hold our breaths. I'm more worried about him then these clowns.
As much as I don't rate Cummins all that highly, the fact is our first two wins this season were when he was reffing us. He has reffed us 5 times out of our 14 games so far this season, so this will be the 6th time. The 3 games he reffed us when we lost were touch and go as to his performance, we lost by 1 point to Manly but that was more due to our inability to close out the game compared with DCE's calmness. We sucked against Raiders, and the Saints game was also disappointing.Can't be worse than the Klein **** and his 11-4 penalty count, can he?
We usually get a win like that once a year. Usually towards the back end but. Like 38-0 against tigers then the year before 30-14 on the Bronx then that 2019 game where we smashed dragqueens 38-0.I'm with ya bro.
Might sound harsh but it's the truth.
I'm not calling us premiers, but that smashing wasn't a fluke.
Way I see it, now everyone knows what they can do, we want to see that every week.We usually get a win like that once a year. Usually towards the back end but. Like 38-0 against tigers then the year before 30-14 on the Bronx then that 2019 game where we smashed dragqueens 38-0.
Good to see it when our seasons not fully over yet though. Hopefully get a few more of them performances