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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 3125750, member: 8423"] Well time to be brutal: 1. Isaako - I again thought he was actually quite good but he is a symptom of this side over the last few years. He did some things really well but others were horrible. You can’t have mediocre in your 1 anymore. He is great at taking the high ball and is getting better reading defensively but he offers absolutely nothing in attack. He doesn’t ball play and he doesn’t support run. He’s half a player essentially and this is symptomatic of almost the entire team - 6 2. Oates - He has become a horrible winger and it’s just so sad to see. I think to an extent he is a victim of the guys inside him who are absolute trash but he runs with zero venom these days and he gets no quality ball at all. I wonder how he would go with a good Centre on his right. He actually looked decent in the second-row at the end of the game, that’s his future now or another club - 4 3. Arthars - He wasn’t good but almost no one was last night but I think he is a bit of a victim of circumstance. He is getting shuffled all around the backline and he is clearly trying. Is he good enough? I don’t know but he needs to be given a shot at left centre, I think he could help fix that side of the field’s glaring issues, at least as a stop gap - 4 4. Boyd - For goodness sake, what an absolute spud. He has been over the hill for what, four seasons now? Make the call Anthony because if you don’t, this bloke will be here longer than you sadly. Boyd defended like pus, he didn’t even try to score on two occasions, one an absolute chance. That’s two weeks in a row. He gives up in defense and he doesn’t even try in attack. He got put away once and instead of drawing and then passing by holding the ball up, he immediately passes to poor Oates who can’t do anything but run and become easy pickings for a noted gun defender in Morris. Absolute garbage from a bloke who should know better and be long retired - 0 (deserves lower) 5. Farnworth - Look, he had his first pretty average game but at least he was trying his socks off out there, was just outclassed at his present stage of development. I’m not going to be as harsh on him as some of the more experienced guys but he needs to run with venom on kick returns, he’s big enough to do so. Looked all at sea when shifted to centre late in the game - 4 6. Milford - Get out of the side! Absolutely wasted money in this guy. He is a victim of really poor coaching decisions but poor coaching doesn’t make you lose your speed, poor lifestyle choices does that. He has nothing going for him now. He’s slow, he has no footy brain and he has no creativity to save himself. If he were your prize race horse, he’s laying there with a broken leg. He May still thrive under a good system but that isn’t the Broncos anymore. He needs to be dropped last year but he won’t be because he’s paid too much to sit on the line. He can’t defend, he can’t lead, he can’t make anything happen, he can’t organise, he breaks down any semblance of play that does happen. What exactly is he there for? Why is he getting paid more than a third of what he is being paid? Trash - 0 (Again should be less but I wonder if he would go even slightly better with anyone other than Boyd outside him) 7. Croft - Absolute shocker. At least last week he was trying his butt off despite no support whatsoever from his million dollar spud halves partner. Horrible in every aspect of the game but that said, his short-kicking actually is decent, he just doesn’t have anyone in the backline who can capitalise on it. As a captain, he needs to inspire and lift his troops, not stand at the back of the group and sulk after the 85th try - 2 8. Flegler - Horror game for the kid, at least he was decent in rounds one and two because since the break, he’s been garbage. Like most of the team, zero consistency and zero intensity. He’ll come good but last night was one of his worst performances ever. Absolutely horrible stuff - 2 9. Paix - I don’t really know what to say because he was on a hiding to nothing to be honest. Definitely thrown in the deep end and while he stayed above water just for a while, he sunk pretty low by the end. He didn’t run, he didn’t look confident and while he tried, he didn’t make a lot of good decisions. He got zero help from his forwards he didn’t want to run on to the ball though either. Made some bad tackle attempts when he was understandably exhausted - 4 10. Haas - Once again a shining light in a horror display. I feel for this kid though because in he last two weeks, every time he’s got the ball, he’s had 18 defenders on him because it’s always one out with no support runners anywhere in sight. He is looking to offload, you can see it but there is no one to offload to. He’s going to be burnt out if Siebs keeps playing him for so many minutes. Just because he can doesn’t mean he should and especially when his side is being so hopelessly bashed and beaten - 7 11. Bullemor - Look he fried and there were things that looked good but he was found wanting in defense over and over again. He has a future but he also needs time and I’m willing to give it to him because the foods are there, you can see it, he just isn’t ready yet. I like the potential though - 5 12. Hopoate - He was better but then, he couldn’t possibly be worse than last week. He turned up but that’s about it. He doesn’t run with venom, he doesn’t even decoy run, he doesn’t hit with venom, he’s just there, the very definition of depth player sadly but interesting when he is one of the best mediocres of a horrible bunch - 5 13. Carrigan - He’s been really good so I will cut him a little bit of slack but last night he looked flat and as captain, he needs to learn his team feeds off his demeanour. He did some good runs but mostly lacked energy and just seemed quiet - 3 14. Niu - He definitely added something when he got out there. He played 9 in attack and 1 in defense, he looked pretty good doing it too. I’d really like to see more of him because he showed energy when he got there, something none of the starters showed at all - 7 15. Ofahenguie - He was mediocre, in this side that’s greatness sadly. He tried to lift the side, not much you can do though when you just aren’t that good - 5 16. Kennedy - He needs to stay in the side. This isn’t because he’s good, he’s serviceable but he also doesn’t seem to act like an entitled, unearned megastar that’s others do. He also doesn’t phone it in as much, he’s average and last night, average was like gold - 5 17. Lodge - He tried to fire his team up, he tried to inspire, he also missed 20% or so of his tackles, just like everyone else out there - 4 Coach - Out of just depth clearly. Though I do feel for him here and am willing to cut a little slack for a few reasons. Firstly, there are no good coaches available that could do anything with this current squad, I include Walters. Secondly, the side looked good in rounds 1 and 2 when they had most of the squad available. Finally, he legitimately does have an unavailability crisis and at least he tried to change things up at the end of the game last night, albeit too late. He needs to drop Milford and Boyd, it willtake guts but if he doesn’t, they will both be around longer than him. [/QUOTE]

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