Official Andrew Fifita

[ABshark]

But his mistakes are avoidable.

Every tackle he looks like a hooked fish. Just get up and play the ball. He forces his own errors

He does. He also draws a lot of penalties through it though.

I thought he started badly and it really influenced the whole team. When he started to assert himself we looked pretty good and really rolled through them. He's almost our most important player now. More influential than Gal.

Luckily, he'll be near unstoppable if he can build on that performance and get back to his best. The Broncs don't have anyone to match him.

I don't mind the idea of starting him from the bench. Its brought the best out of him before... I think it might focus him on making an impact.

 

[deano the p]

If you took at least most of the stupid mistakes he made last night out it would have been a really good game from him.

He needs to learn some discipline.

 

[Western Sharkie]

He does. He also draws a lot of penalties through it though.

I thought he started badly and it really influenced the whole team. When he started to assert himself we looked pretty good and really rolled through them. He's almost our most important player now. More influential than Gal.

Luckily, he'll be near unstoppable if he can build on that performance and get back to his best. The Broncs don't have anyone to match him.

I don't mind the idea of starting him from the bench. Its brought the best out of him before... I think it might focus him on making an impact.

He was our bench prop when he made origin for memory.
I'd like to see him come on around the 20 minute mark.

 

[sharks2010]

His discipline was bad last night, didn't like the fact he was getting up smiling, however in saying that he ran the ball hard and straight on most occasions, improved effort on the Tigers trial

Like someone else mention, take the errors out and he had a great game but unfortunately it doesn't work that way

 

[Deleted member 3365]

where is his fend?
Waiting for that all game, his fend is usually the reason he breaks the line.

 

[endevour shark]

If you took at least most of the stupid mistakes he made last night out it would have been a really good game from him.

He needs to learn some discipline.

If we took out his stupid mistakes last night there would have been a lot of blank spaces.:yawn:

 

[19ninety9]

How did he get done for a knockon early? new rule or something, they were saying you can't use the ball to lift yourself to you feet, wtf does that mean? it clearly wasn't a knock on.

 

[hamsy44]

If we took out his stupid mistakes last night there would have been a lot of blank spaces.:yawn:

lol yeah cause his 209 metres and 35 tackles is a pretty average effort.

:lmao

 

[Sutty]

lol yeah cause his 209 metres and 35 tackles is a pretty average effort.

:lmao

Yeah what a **** player, his brother who was only on the field for 15 minutes did much better.

 

[CrazyMatt]

I wish this guy would figure out how much more effective he is when he just runs straight. He's already a handful for defences, he really needs to learn he doesn't need to do the sideways rubbish.

 

[Thresher]

If he keeps training hard he may end up as good as his brother.

 

[snowman]

thought Andrew had a cracked of the a game when he actually kept himself in control.

what I don't lik are the articles coming out about him and his brother trying to be the big dogs, and him saying he wants his rep career back.

he needs to learn to let his actions do his talking, because when his mouth opens in the media, the fans start to expect more of him. when he makes mistakes and gives away penalties its easy for us to blast him and point out his rep career will go to his brother while he plays like this.

his talent is there, but he needs to take away his outside distractions and focus on playing footy again. once that happens, him and his brother will be killing people for fun

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

thought Andrew had a cracked of the a game when he actually kept himself in control.

what I don't lik are the articles coming out about him and his brother trying to be the big dogs, and him saying he wants his rep career back.

he needs to learn to let his actions do his talking, because when his mouth opens in the media, the fans start to expect more of him. when he makes mistakes and gives away penalties its easy for us to blast him and point out his rep career will go to his brother while he plays like this.

his talent is there, but he needs to take away his outside distractions and focus on playing footy again. once that happens, him and his brother will be killing people for fun

Spot on. Less is more really. The first tackle hit up he took where he just ran hard and straight was great. Then he ruined it by doing the caterpillar and dropping it. Theres no need for the defence to even try to slow down the ruck anymore, he does it by himself. And refs wont favour him when there is a penalty to give either

 

[deano the p]

How did he get done for a knockon early? new rule or something, they were saying you can't use the ball to lift yourself to you feet, wtf does that mean? it clearly wasn't a knock on.

The rule has been around for quite some time. You're not meant to put the ball on the ground until your standing.

I don't know the exact wording (and can't find it from a simple search) but it has been around for a while.

 

[sharkstragic]

The rule has been around for quite some time. You're not meant to put the ball on the ground until your standing.

I don't know the exact wording (and can't find it from a simple search) but it has been around for a while.

They don't enforce it enough then. Happens regularly in all games

 

[sharks2010]

If only he played like he did for his first three hit ups...

 

[Gards]

He had some very strong straight runs in the second half as well but discipline let him and the team down badly again

We are paying him substantial coin, he needs to be more mature and display some self control and focus for me to think he is still worth that money

 

[sharks2010]

While he did make good meters last night, 5 errors and conceding 2 penalties is just rubbish, really needs to clean this part of his game up

Won't get back into the rep scene playing like this

 

[Wilson]

Lucky to even be in this team with that ****.

 

[snowman]

flanno should do a bennet and bench him