Offloads

[King Salvo]

glad you qualified which Co-captain. The other bloke can’t pass either. If he ran, we’d know whether he could offload

Friend can pass and made 138 of them - including two passes in the only Chooks try .

[ROC181]

Yeh I saw it too mate,so bloody frustrating...
Seems to me the Rabbits and Dragons always get away with those calls,whereas we always get pinned..
Bloody joke

I think the refs go into a match and they apply the rule once but then are reluctant to keep doing it because they have obviously felt the impact of the criticism of too many penalties. All teams are guilty with players not playing the ball correctly. Unfortunately we either accept the game full of penalties which will be frustrating for the fans, or we accept the odd penalty so the referees save face, or much like the debacle of the scrums just let the play the ball be like tunnel ball. In fact I don't think there was a penalty given on Wednesday if I'm not wrong and against the dogs the only one given was to Sharon himself in the first few minutes.

[The Axe]

Friend can pass and made 138 of them - including two passes in the only Chooks try .

salvo. Do as I did. I went to the match and paid close attention to the passes to ball players. Note the direction and the pressure the receiver is under for key plays and kicks.

Not it every time but at an alarming rate on key plays our playmakers are flat, need to prop or slow down to catch and this throws timing off.

I welcome your pov but please do yourself a favour and watch through unfiltered lenses. Those that have can clearly see the shortcomings in his passing game.

[crikey chris]

THROW THE CHEQUE BOOK @ COREY OATES.
He's off contract and the Bunnies were keen.
We've got some cashola up our sleeve. Add that plus what the Neanderthal on our wing won't get because he's shite and we land Oates. A cut above the rest.

I think I read somewhere that Oates sees himself as a future second rower, not a winger. And looking for a massive payrise as well.

[oldrooster]

I won’t blame Fergo on the first try because you have to look at what preceded that and it was the miss on Hunt and how he went through the middle like Souths did and then their support was good and no one in our team was capable to stop their offloads and then... a good flat bomb from Widdop had Fergo scrambling back. All on the last tackle. He shouldn’t have to have put in that position in the first place. Every player that missed a tackle in that sequence has more blame than Fergo.

Yes, Friend rushed up on Hunt like a bat out of hell and then just let him stroll past.
It was only the second minute so I doubt that fatigue had anything to do with it.

[theGman]

I think I read somewhere that Oates sees himself as a future second rower, not a winger. And looking for a massive payrise as well.

CC, better still. With Oates' athleticism, build and versatility he could cover other positions for us too i.e centre.

[ROC181]

CC, better still. With Oates' athleticism, build and versatility he could cover other positions for us too i.e centre.

Oates is just a left side Fergo. He has a few mistakes in his game much like Fergo. Both can jump for bombs in attack too BUT I think Fergo is less injury prone. I'm thinking that Fergo can cover many positions as well. he's got the size for it.

[theGman]

Oates is just a left side Fergo. He has a few mistakes in his game much like Fergo. Both can jump for bombs in attack too BUT I think Fergo is less injury prone. I'm thinking that Fergo can cover many positions as well. he's got the size for it.

When comparing the two, i believe Oates will transition nicely into the 2nd row something which Fergo would struggle with IMO. Time will tell.

[Mickie Lane]

Surely it’s not the case. Robbo can see how much teams progress through offloading. Surely he can’t be telling them not to do it. I refuse to believe this. Especially when a guy like Teddy is following them.

If they are allowed to off load but none of them do then dont you think Robbo would step in & say no offloads no FG?
I believe that none of the forwards are going to offload when Robbos match plan is to take 3 or 4 1 out hitups & then kick into the oppositions corners & then dominate in defence. Once they have that down pat & are winning the game by at least 10 points then they could probably offload.