Dufty and Rava. It was free tries running down the wing where they had a 2nd rower playing centre and i forget who was playing wing. Same as running at Coates wing.
It baffles me how folks attack Hunt before and after getting a $1M paycheck while excusing Milford's efforts over the years.
The focus should have been on Milford back when the blame was on Hunt. Hunt was the fall guy for all our problems. I never saw Milford put in effort like this:
The pass...
And Ramsay will be back where he plays well. Then on the other side they Rava back who will not only fix the defense on that wing but hits and runs hard.
I agree with the defense issue. He'd look worse in our squad. The dive and elbow don't worry me too much. Dunn definitely got him first and if Reece didn't retaliate I doubt Dunn would have gone on report as the NRL doesn't seem to care what the ball player does. They let them step around...
He and Gould look even more stupid because the rules haven't changed. Radley would be in trouble for his head highs before the crackdown. What has changed is that he was binned. If he had another jersey on he may well have been sent.
Remember when Hodgo used to shove McCullough aside and run the ball from dummy half usually for a total of 5 run metres. If you're not getting good ball for $1mil you should be going to get it.
Copley at centre was excellent. Troubled a lot of defenders. But his defense was always suspect. One of his last games with us I think he nearly knocked himself out three times. He got replaced by James Roberts but absolutely towelled Roberts in his first game against us.
Swap Kelly for Reynolds and we still have the same number of NSW players in the run on side. Next year we may have Reynolds and Staggs as halves. Cowbros will have Townsend and Drinkwater. Good times for QRL.
Fair enough as long as they leave room for the likes of Dufty, Lomax and Ramsay to keep coming through and Moose can keep himself out of trouble. Hook definitely has Hunt back in form and somehow Jack Bird has managed to not get injured. McCullough doesn’t seem so average these days either.
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I’m baffled by this. Who is allowing Hook to (re)assemble this squad of players who are getting long in the tooth. Moose is looking like a mistake and I’ve not really sure what Beale can bring.
It's fine to "crack down" on head highs but it needs to occur from Rd 1. But you still need some grey area as the Tedesco incident shows. Also you cannot punish legs tackles the way we do calling "get of him" the moment they're on the ground.
The "one on one" strip is another stupid rule. It was fine how it was. Munster did three proper one on one's in one game. Now it's an excuse to try to strip after the tackle is completed and if not then get tangled up and delay the play of the ball.
They looked out of sorts with him playing fullback. Not surprising how little time he’s had with the team and it didn’t help that RTS had a bad game on the wing. Last week they moved him to six and he was really good. But this week CHT came back and they moved Walsh to bench. Turbo ran through a...