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Message: [QUOTE="Jedhead, post: 3230180, member: 9518"] It's taken up until now before I was calm enough to comment on last night. First up I know Kevvie has a lot on his plate and we all know it will take more than a handful of games to turn around the mess we are currently in. Many people on BHQ have sounded patient and understood this and have remained positive by pointing out the small incremental changes they have noticed. I agree totally with their views, but heavens above it seems as if half of the team has never played the game before let alone played at NRL level. The amount of dumb plays last night left me furious. The ball retention seemed to be an afterthought. We were 9 from 15 coming up to half-time!!! Not sure what our final error count was. So yeh Kevvie may be changing things, but no one in their right mind would expect that he'd need to go so far back in fundamentals and teach them basic ball security. I'm sounding like a broken record i know, I said the same last week. He needs to cane the **** out of them through the week on ball handling skills. I've seen better security in Samoan prisons. Carrigan needs to focus on simple, safe carries. last night was not the first time he has lost the ball in an innocuous tackle and in doing so lost the team attacking momentum resulting in us being put under extreme defensive pressure. He was not the only one I might add, but it is fast becoming a habit with him in particular. His no knock on before our try was a prime example. If he had been pinged that try was gonski forever. Someone needs to pull Issako aside and tell him that stupid little girly skip he does only slows his momentum and fools no one - he needs to get the ball and fuckin run hard!! It is only then a side-step actually becomes effective and allows the runner to evade the tackle. At present he is hop, skipping and jumping better than the fuckin Easter Bunny on a hot tin roof. Just stop it ffs. I bagged Riki's input last week and I have to say he was the standout for us last night. He took two solid hits from Tino and Comfortable Dave and still managed to make that break where he left his backline way down field. Milf looked like he'd been pulled out of the queue at Maccas and was in a hurry to get rid of the ball in order to return to his place in the queue. His mind was never on this game and he was never in the game. A number of times he shuffled across the field and handed the ball off to a forward for another 'settler'. Kevvie should be putting him on a course of diazepam if he feels he needs that much settling. His hospital pass to Riki who had three Titans sweating on him was just never on. If Riki makes the run for you Milf - the least you can do is take the line on yourself. That offload was bordering on illegal mate. Would I have payed Walsh Milf's 1 million to keep him here? Too right I would. Honestly - what value are we currently getting from Anthony Milford? Kevvie talks about we can't pay people on potential. Well we're paying Milf a mil and so far he's not shown us any of the potential we thought he had. At least Walsh can tackle. Finally, Carty and Matto need to drill the kids all week that we are not interested in them trying to pull off some flash play for the cameras, all we want is socks up, sleeves up and a no-nonsense 80 minutes. They all seem to want to emulate Benji, but they end up looking like Sims (take your pick). I'm not asking for the 1990s Broncos, or the 2006 Broncos, I just want to see a team that can hold the frikkin ball for 80 minutes. Some of that may be on Kevvie for poor bench rotation later in the game, but seriously there are guys getting payed in the hundreds of thousands and one of the basic criteria is to catch and hold onto the ball until it is deemed time to pass. After last night's effort Id say most of them are taking those huge pay-cheques under false pretenses. [/QUOTE]

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