Really good effort from almost everyone in that game. I feel like if we have a few more troops we win that one. Just another product of this cursed season.
First two Penrith tries pretty fluky - two lapses from us and they did make us pay, bit still a bit of arse about them. Then add in the...
Accountability is the point of the exercise. If there is no accountability, nothing changes.
But I tend to agree that the NRL would rather not venture down that path.
Let the broadcast networks bring in the technology that places a visual onside line based on the position of the tackled player and see how quickly offsides tighten up. Initially there will be a push back on the refs not policing it, so they will get stricter, and then the players will learn...
I've had a think and this seems realistic and doable within the current cap*:
Position
First Team
Depth
Depth's Depth
Fullback
Walsh
Edwards
Paps
Wing
Arthars, Mariner
To'o
Fox
Centre
Cobbo, Staggs
Crichton
Anyone but fucking Trell
Five-Eighth
Mam
Time-travelling Wally Lewis
Little...
Flegler and Palasia weren't grand final forwards when they signed elsewhere, though - and at the time I don't know that many on here thought they were necessarily worth the contracts they were getting from those other teams. Flegs had promise but a lot of people criticised him for his...
Even if we don't beat the Panthers, if we compete we could get some confidence out of it. The next four games are winnable, and if we go on a run there we look good by the time Reynolds gets back for the Cowboys game. We keep winning through to the Storm game and they might rest their players...
There's a certain disconnect in saying that we should have done more to keep Flegler, Herbie and Palasia, when keeping them would have meant cuts elsewhere - not retaining Walsh or Mam or Cobbo or a combination of those players, for instance. As Sproj has mentioned, the salary cap exists...