The Jake Friend third tackle kick

[Guest]

Jake Friend's kicking game is not up to standard and should not be kicking. We dearly missed Mitchell Pearce.

[ROC181]

No one is happy with the loss. But....he played ordinary......and.....the loss....seem to suggest you think they are related. That the reason we lost is coz Jake played ordinary. I don't think he played badly at all. You are right when you say he should not have kicked it on the 3rd tackle. But he has done that in the past and it has led to a try.
The reason we lost is because we had no go forwards in the first half. Coz of the wrestling of the Storm. We didn't really have a Plan B. They lost their way. In the second half there were times we were dominating but our last play options were terrible. I thought Jake was ok.

Heard Maubbs on the morning news saying that they weren't prepared for the wrestle. What? Makes you think that there was no pre game strategy to deal with a team that plays like that when their backs are on the wall. If so, that was pretty dumb. However, Lockyer said yesterday that teams get bored with winning so many games. Perhaps he is right and the fact that the team assumed that they would go through, just made them complacent. There's no complacency this week.

[dice]

A defence oriented game is exactly what Melbourne wanted.

It was an error. Pure and simple.

Correction. To counter a defense-oriented game.

Agreed it was a mistake on a 7-tackle set.

[Thirteen]

Heard Maubbs on the morning news saying that they weren't prepared for the wrestle. What? Makes you think that there was no pre game strategy to deal with a team that plays like that when their backs are on the wall. If so, that was pretty dumb. However, Lockyer said yesterday that teams get bored with winning so many games. Perhaps he is right and the fact that the team assumed that they would go through, just made them complacent. There's no complacency this week.

Of course they were prepared for the wrestle. Melbourne are famous for it. They were just expecting the ref might penalise them a couple of times to stop them.

[Danish]

It was a shit decision in a long line of shit decisions that Jake has been making over the last month of footy. I don't know whats wrong with him but his attacking game has regressed badly of late.

Hopefully Pearce back next week makes Jake remember he is not supposed to try and lay on everything.

[Thirteen]

i thought maloney played poorly. The workload without mitchell is too much for him imo. We lacked direction. Which pearcey will bring back to us.. i hope

You weren't commenting on Maloney's workload after we smashed Manly then Souths.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Jake Friend's kicking game is not up to standard and should not be kicking. We dearly missed Mitchell Pearce.

Poppycock.

Jake's kicking game has been a big value add since his return from serious injury.

It's a great bonus to have him with that in his kit bag from dummy half and not just rely on the 6 and 7.

[Cockadoodledoo]

Jake Friend's kicking game is not up to standard and should not be kicking. We dearly missed Mitchell Pearce.

I wouldn't say he shouldn't be kicking but just never before the fifth tackle.

[ROC181]

Poppycock.

Jake's kicking game has been a big value add since his return from serious injury.

It's a great bonus to have him with that in his kit bag from dummy half and not just rely on the 6 and 7.

Hahaha... Good call mate. Some here have NFI!

[Cockadoodledoo]

Poppycock.

Jake's kicking game has been a big value add since his return from serious injury.

It's a great bonus to have him with that in his kit bag from dummy half and not just rely on the 6 and 7.

His last tackle kicks are normally pretty good but he has a habit of kicking early in the count when no one is ready for it. That has to change.

[bondi paul]

i liked the bobby fulton bullet style grubber put on by hastings which nearly led to MJ try.

[redwhiteblue]

Hahaha... Good call mate. Some here have NFI!

The wallet and the fur coat are having a fashionista stoush...don't you love finals week?

[ROC181]

The wallet and the fur coat are having a fashionista stoush...don't you love finals week?

The wallet looks foreword to arguing with posters that have an opinion. It's s sickness...😂😂😂

[Guest]

He did it again on Friday night, on a 7 tackle set, we marched down more than 50 metres and with The Storm back pedalling in defence decided to put it on the toe with no one having an inkling what he was thinking for the Storm to regain possession 10 metres from their line.

He has done this a number of times this season, a few times he has got a repeat set but on most occasions just turning the ball over due to no one having any idea what he has in mind. Sometimes he varies it up by kicking on the 4th but unless you can execute the play perfectly and get a result, it is a needless low percentage play.
Cue BAW to have a whinge and RNB to jump to Jake's defence but it isn't personal, i would like him to put a bit more thought into this play that has crept into his game this year.

He has the second best kicking game in the tam behind Hastings, I put it down to a rare Jake brain snap

[Guest]

Poppycock.

Jake's kicking game has been a big value add since his return from serious injury.

It's a great bonus to have him with that in his kit bag from dummy half and not just rely on the 6 and 7.

Not one of his last tackle option kicks were at all on the mark. He is very effective kicking out of dummy half to surprise the opposition who do not have wingers dropped back but his bombs and cross field kicks in particular are very poor. He is not a playmaker and should not be treated as such. Jackson Hastings is more than capable of providing effective last tackle kicking options.