Official Ronaldo Mulitalo

[puma1355]

needs to learn to defend better

 

[Western Sharkie]

needs to learn to defend better

Yeah, can be brilliant at times but loves a “jamming play” sometimes to our detriment (I think he jammed when he should have stayed on his man for their try’s)

 

[Milkshark]

Needs to keep his head in the game. He is way too easily rattled and at times riles up the opposition

 

[Western Sharkie]

Needs to keep his head in the game. He is way too easily rattled and at times riles up the opposition

He was a bit to focused on the niggle rather than the game.
Ravalawa scored 2 on him, so honestly, Ravalawa took the points IMHO

 

[Proud Shark]

needs to learn to defend better

The first one Iro jams in on Hunt leaving Ronnie to mark Sloan and Ravalawa. If he stays out hunt plays short to sloan. Can't blame him for this.

The second one is more 50/50, but Sloan has beaten Iro on the outside. There's a chance if Ronnie stays out that Iro and Kennedy clean up sloan, but I don't think I can blame him for coming in there either.

Feels like he was defending fine in our system to me.

 

[jocktheshark]

Went back to his old habit of rushing in on defense , but made one real good decision when rushing in on the fullback , needs to concentrate on the stuff he does really well .

 

[MMsharks]

He was a bit to focused on the niggle rather than the game.
Ravalawa scored 2 on him, so honestly, Ravalawa took the points IMHO

I don't think it was the whole game though that he niggled.

yeah at times he got a little excited but love the Ronnie

one of those tries you couldnt blame him entirely - sloan could have got the ball from Hunt in the second try easily if he stayed on Ravalawa.

 

[Proud Shark]

When you watch the replays of their trys. Ask yourself what you'd think if he stayed out and they scored inside him. He'd look 10 times worse in that situation IMO.

Wingers are taught to jam when they are beat for numbers, it's not an error. You could maybe argue he could have jammed faster to shut it down?

 

[Born&bred]

When you watch the replays of their trys. Ask yourself what you'd think if he stayed out and they scored inside him. He'd look 10 times worse in that situation IMO.

Wingers are taught to jam when they are beat for numbers, it's not an error. You could maybe argue he could have jammed faster to shut it down?

First try maybe (need to watch that again), second one no way. They had them covered easily if they didn't jam in so tight / close together

 

[Western Sharkie]

First try maybe (need to watch that again), second one no way. They had them covered easily if they didn't jam in so tight / close together

This is how I saw it.
I still think Ronnie jams in a bit but I think I covered that somewhere (game day thread maybe) that Iro might have been beaten so he might have had to for one but the other I thought was unnecessary

 

[Proud Shark]

First try maybe (need to watch that again), second one no way. They had them covered easily if they didn't jam in so tight / close together

Yeah I had to watch again too. First one he's 100% left with two on one.

Second, I said in my other comment that Sloan beats Iro on the outside. I think they may have covered him, but I don't think it's definitive enough to say Ronnie definitely should have stayed out. Remembering that he can't see Will coming across behind him.

With the benefit of hindsight, I think if he stays out Iro grabs him and Will does enough to wrap it up. But all Ronnie can see is a speedster getting around his centre, so I can't really blame him for making the decision he did.

 

[Born&bred]

Yeah I had to watch again too. First one he's 100% left with two on one.

Second, I said in my other comment that Sloan beats Iro on the outside. I think they may have covered him, but I don't think it's definitive enough to say Ronnie definitely should have stayed out. Remembering that he can't see Will coming across behind him.

With the benefit of hindsight, I think if he stays out Iro grabs him and Will does enough to wrap it up. But all Ronnie can see is a speedster getting around his centre, so I can't really blame him for making the decision he did.

I think I should've put that one on the all the cover, not just Ronnie - they were way too tight for what they had to cover though.

 

[bort]

If you have to watch a replay to decide if he was right to jam or not it says a lot about how hard the split second decision making is.

 

[MrDravid]

If you have to watch a replay to decide if he was right to jam or not it says a lot about how hard the split second decision making is.

The second one at least (IMO), if he doesn't jam in, Sloan strolls through.

Not sure what happened on the first one, although it looked pretty bad.

 

[bort]

The second one at least (IMO), if he doesn't jam in, Sloan strolls through.

Not sure what happened on the first one, although it looked pretty bad.

(This is more of a genera response not specific to you and that comment)

So they did a good job mixing things up maybe, and/or he just made a mistake. Loads of players make mistakes.

It’s not good to make mistakes but a split second defensive read on a play designed specifically to force quick tricky decisions isn’t much more an egregious mistake than a cold drop or laying in the tackle too long that lets them get that field position in the first place.

nice to look at it from different camera angles on the couch and say how we would have done it better but it’s not so easy in real life.

Not that it can’t be criticised just keep it in context of an intentional difficult circumstance that every team* uses to score tries every week*

 

[Proud Shark]

I wish he'd waited a week to drop this video so he could include Ronnie's efforts in here. Great explainer on why wingers jam in.

 

[Tiger Shark]

I wish he'd waited a week to drop this video so he could include Ronnie's efforts in here. Great explainer on why wingers jam in.

Thanks for sharing

I do find it frustrating people just auto blaming the wingers without understanding the game properly.

 

[Proud Shark]

Thanks for sharing

I do find it frustrating people just auto blaming the wingers without understanding the game properly.

It's kinda understandable as it does look bad on the winger. Problem is he's often left with an impossible task to clean up by his inside men and the last pass has to go by him.

 

[Gumby]

He’ll bounce back this week in a big way. Expecting him to rip in against the storm.