Got to disagree though, Trindall is definitely worth a look at. His doing a good job in Newtown and showed spark in his first hit outs this year.
He definitely has a positive influence for Newtown Jets, cannot deny that.
As I said previously, it's about small fixes to address the issues that contribute to the bigger problem. Trindall doesn't fix the big issue alone, but it will be a start.
For curiousity sake, do you think our current halves don't contribute to the "bigger problem"?
Hynes contributes to the attacking driven gameplay which lacks ball security. I don't think Moylan does, I also don't think Trindall fixes it or Hynes wearing a different number fixes it. Fitz and Hynes fix it.
Moylan contributes to the weak tryline defence which is another big issue however he is far from the sole person to blame for this. While we have seen issues across the park and some of them have just been specifically Moylan's fault they have also been the fault of plenty of others (including Hynes). Wilton has been more than a few which wouldn't do Trindall any favours. Something needs to change with how we are defending our tryline, and I don't think that changing specifically Moylan is it. However we can also improve this by fixing the above, teams
will score if you let them keep having the ball in your attacking end repeatedly.
I don't think Moylan is anywhere near as bad as some do (doesn't mean I think he is killing it but I think a lot of his good work is being ignored) and I also don't think Trindall is as good as some do. I think the two are quite close actually, but also quite different players. I didn't see anything in that Trindall highlight video which I didn't think Moylan could do, other than a 40/20.
I wouldn't bat an eyelid if Fitz dropped Moylan for Trindall but nor do I think it is outrageous he hasn't.
I also don't believe we have seen proof Trindall is a high level game manager like some claim, just because he played Flegg as a 7 or whatever. We see Moylan regularly addressing team and pointing people into shape, supposedly he offers no game management. Fitz knows if Trindall has better game management skills than Moylan or Nicho. I don't think we know that, despite what some claim.
I do think some fresh blood could give the team a little extra oomf however I also think Fitz probably has a good enough read on Trindall in Cup and NRL to know if that would happen or not. Presumably not if he is also meant to be calming and organising.
Attacking football also energises the team which will come more often if we hold onto it.
While we want to hold a team to a high standard and our ladder position is inflated by byes we are theoretically going
okay
Is okay good enough? No
But there are seasons we would have loved to have been 'only able to beat the weak teams'. I accept it must be hard for a second year coach who can see his team going okay to drop an experienced half (his other half apparently gets a lot out of playing with, whether random sharks fans agree with that or not) for a less experienced half with the hope he improves the team
in the future. I get that a lot of people in here feel Trindall has earnt the chance but clearly the coach doesn't. Hopefully we have a half decent coach and he knows more than random fans, if not we are ****ed for a while whether with Trindall or Moylan.
Every week Trindall should be learning and gaining experience, there will come a time he gets a chance whether through jumping Moylan or injury to Moylan and I'd love to see him grab it with both hands and run with it.
Remember Trindall's good games at the start of the season, admittedly playing with Moylan not Nicho, we went 1-2, yeah Trindall played pretty good, but Moylan and Nicho are 6-4. Throwing away a 60% winrate pairing for an unknown one just in case it goes better or because fans want you to are probably both incorrect from coaches perspective if he doesn't confidently feel Trindall increases it.
I don't object to Trindall being in the team at all, I don't think he is as good as some claim though.
I do object to concept Nicho and Moylan can't game manage but Trindall can - I think that is very hard to judge unless you're consistently on the sideline and training paddock with them.
And I object to the fact the coach doesn't know what he is doing, really hope I am right about that one. Plenty of players have been talked up or condemned by fans before, only for the fans to be wrong in the long run. Kennedy is going alright for someone I was told shouldn't even be playing rugby league just last season.
