Pieman wrote:Imagine your 23 year old 80kg halfback, who has done nothing in the game, who missed the most tackles in the game - coming out and giving a spray to the forwards at half time and the end of the game on tv. Fuck me dead there would be some fuming forwards who busted themselves all game.
I also noticed in that after the game when they were in the sheds, Gutho was walking around helping blokes take their jerseys off etc while hayne and french stood behind everyone backs turned in their own little group. They really need gutherson back on the park, someone the side enjoys playing with and for.
Once our forwards stopped dropping the ball and giving away silly penalties, and gave us close to 50% possession, he led the comeback for us. He missed 3 tackles and made 14, last week he missed 2 and made 14, in the Manly flogging he missed 3 and made 19, in none of those games did he miss the most tackles and there are a few other halves that have missed more this year and have a higher ineffective tackle rate. If your gonna come back with "bad reads" etc and that sort of guff, again, that comes down to the guys that should be helping and protecting him defensively. He has clearly improved defensively under Arthur, but still needs Tom work on it no doubt. Where he is struggling is from the kicking tee, and for a goal kicker, that can affect your confidence so he really needs to do some work there and refocus.
I'd like to think the forwards weren't fuming but actually listened and accepted responsibility for a shit effort for the 4th week in a row from them, they have been ill disciplined, sloppy and unenthusiastic as a group, no doubt about that and Mitchell has every right to try and light a fire under them.
Agree with Gutho.
Easy pot shot on Hayne and French.