Player criticism

[Rooster1908]

Ha ... Lam was shit tonight and has been in general !


Do something.

At it again Double penetrated

[Nigel Gaffey]

Here's my take.

1. Teddy - tried too hard. Buzzing in the first half but became uninspired and frustrated with the teams collective performance around him.
2. Sualii - bright future, but shows lack of match experience..it will come. I really enjoy watching him play. Great future.
3. JMoz - off night, but still a solid defensive center. Attacking wise, he is off the pace against the top sides.
4. Manu - we all expect better from him. He is no longer the #1 center in the game. That goes to Olam. too inconsistent in my opinion.
5. Toops - tried hard, always does. One of our positives.
6. Walker - tried too hard but not his night. Plenty for him to takeaway and learn from last night. He will be better for it. Defensively still a concern.
7. Lam - Needs to be dropped. Offers nothing in attack. Weak defensively. I think he played his last game for the tricolors
8. JWH - He is taking up the workload for an out of form SST
9. Verills - supposed to be 'the artist'. Was a 5/10 last night and we need him to be a consistent 7-8/10 each week.
10. SST - completely out of form. Needs a kick up the backside. His running meters are decent but he's not a bully. Doesn't bend the line at all in attack. No quick play the balls.
11. Gus - tried hard but our whole pack was dominated. Good running battle with kafusi. We miss radley
12. Sitili - good first half but dropped ball on half time summed up our poor half overall. Ran for 27m which is completely ridiculous for a player of his potential.
13. Liu - might be time to send him off to titans if rumours are true...wondering if he did reveal he is leaving on match day to the boys. That would really p1ss me off!

E Butcher - plenty of upside
Fifita - cheap shot merchant. Needs to be dropped to the bears
Baker - good young player. Not sure why he doesn't get more minutes.
Hutchison - good to see him back. Not sure he is what we need but he's a tough player just to be back on the field he should be commended.

[bondi.boy]

I suspect the conversations have already been had.
It’s July 1 and Isaac has moved on and perhaps more to come. That wouldn’t be good for overall team morale

Pro football it is....not the "Every child wins a prize" junior league.

It's Jack Gibson's: "If you can't tackle don't bother ringing up" pro footy league!

It's Jack Gibson's: "A player can have speed, strength, skill, and courage...but what I ask is: can I win with him" pro footy league.

[DP1990]

At it again Double penetrated

Oh watch out... It's Lam's secret boyfriend to his rescue

[bondi.boy]

Everyone here said our season was cooked when Keary did his ACL.....and you couldn't argue with that. You then lose half a dozen of your best but still think we can win the comp?

Lets face it- the teams above us have a lot better rosters.....and maybe even a couple of teams below us.

Im disappointed in the way we lost tonight but i cant say i was totally shocked.

We live to fight another day

Never say never.
We can still win the comp this year...it is possible.
Unlikely, but still possible.
The GF is not until Oct.
Steven Bradbury made the final, and won a gold medal at the Olympics.

[Rooster1908]

Oh watch out... It's Lam's secret boyfriend to his rescue

No just dont like bullies and keyboard warriors. You probably never laced on a boot let alone played grade to know the pressure and sacrifice players make but think you know better than Robbo

[Mickie Lane]

Never say never.
We can still win the comp this year...it is possible.
Unlikely, but still possible.
The GF is not until Oct.
Steven Bradbury made the final, and won a gold medal at the Olympics.

Its still possible for the Wests Tigers to win the comp as well. Chooks have as much chance as the Tigers have of winning the comp this year.

[dice]

Its still possible for the Wests Tigers to win the comp as well. Chooks have as much chance as the Tigers have of winning the comp this year.

Please let me know if you ever decide to become a bookmaker.

[bondi paul]

Respect to Hutch - he showed a lot of ticker last night against the premiers.
To come back from his horrific injury and numerous hospitalisations and his first up return game against the Storm was amazing.

[Bondicigar]

Pro football it is....not the "Every child wins a prize" junior league.

It's Jack Gibson's: "If you can't tackle don't bother ringing up" pro footy league!

It's Jack Gibson's: "A player can have speed, strength, skill, and courage...but what I ask is: can I win with him" pro footy league.

ask yourself BB honesty can you win the comp with the halves we have available.
Not to mention our weakend forward pack and both captains

[bondi.boy]

While the club is kicking asses, it needs to tell Mr Cronk to choose between coaching our halves and coaching the Storm halves.

[Mickie Lane]

Sack Robbo.

[bondi.boy]

We play the Storm, Storm thrash us with Cronk, our halves coach, as their halves coach.
NO!
I OBJECT!

[rented tracksuit]

If we don’t get up next week and win that game comfortably surely questions would need to be asked about the team ,especially after tonight’s debacle..

Should be asked already. There is no way in fuk we should be kept to 0 by any team, let alone a side we have on equal par with over the past 4 years. They were always going to win but not score a point is simply unacceptable. I expected us to at least have won a half.

[ROC181]

Everyone here said our season was cooked when Keary did his ACL.....and you couldn't argue with that. You then lose half a dozen of your best but still think we can win the comp?

Lets face it- the teams above us have a lot better rosters.....and maybe even a couple of teams below us.

Im disappointed in the way we lost tonight but i cant say i was totally shocked.

We live to fight another day

I agree with plenty you say except this...Had we had ALL 30 players available, overall we have the best rosters including some from Norths for emergencies. However we have to expect some injuries BUT not 5 season ending injuries, 3 being forced retirements.

Even with a valuable player like Keary out for a season, a good club like ours can still be competitive but this is where Robbo and co have dropped the ball. We went in with an average half who's playing 5/8 and is probably the worst 5/8 after Milford. Robbo said before the start of the season 'Lachie will get first go' or something to that extent. TBH, that didn't give me too much confidence. A coach should express confidence in making an announcement of a player especially at the start of the season. Then if that wasn't going to work, he would give Walker a go. Walker is great. He has skills that Cooper Cronk never had but is as courageous as Cooper. He's just not ready for the brutality at this level BUT he will be.

So we go into the season with practically one fully competitive half ( who eventually gets a season ending injury) and we don't have a great kicker either. This is the Maloney saga x 2 all over again.

We will win some games and we will remain in the 8 but Robbo has to make some player changes by having 2 halves that want to create and attack, that means getting rid of Lam and having Walker and Manu and then Hutch or Keighran to cover. We also would need for Robbo to start winning the games with tactics to upset the opposition. What I'm seeing at the moment are same old same old tactics that good teams just love to take advantage of. We have seen this before where Robbo is too slow to pull the trigger when needed.

Can we win the comp? Unless we do a Steven Bradbury and every other team just slips, then we can't BUT the comp doesn't end until we are completely out of it.