Official Craig Fitzgibbon

[Gal The Goat]

Unless things improve I can see a team like the Broncos putting 50.in us.

Same. I had flashes of Walsh tearing us to shreds watching him last night.

Our defence for some reason has gone backwards

 

[Wilson]

You hate me that much?

Haha, maybe just the Eels game then.

 

[Proud Shark]

No, but it means a team is always continuing to develop.

Go watch each game again, the tries we have conceded are not from poor coaching and poor defensive structures. They’ve been from awful individual defensive decisions (Talakai, round 1), awful individual one on one tackles (Moylan round 1 & 3, Ramien round 2) and awful individual positioning (Katoa round 2 & 3).

Genuinely asking.

At what point do we expect the coach to make changes to address awful individual defensive decisions? I don't think you overhaul a system after 3 rounds (few more if you count the end of last year). I also don't think we are yet at the stage of dropping players, but we can't be too far off it. We are in a run of conceding 20 points+, particularly against good sides.

If we concede another 40 over the next two weeks do we ring the alarm bells?

 

[Matty C of the Shire]

3rd round in
35 bloody degree heat today

it’s not time to get the knifes out for fitz
the team scored and defended well when we were down to 12 men just remember that

 

[ben]

Its third week in of playing the same way> Not to mention last year

 

[Wiz]

Who cares if it’s the 3rd round.

We’ve dropped 4 points, you can’t get those back

We lost games the exact same way we did last year and we are worse defensively now a year into his program then when he first started

We don’t have no juniors playing for us neither so that’s not an excuse anymore

 

[Matty C of the Shire]

Who cares if it’s the 3rd round.

We’ve dropped 4 points, you can’t get those back

We lost games the exact same way we did last year and we are worse defensively now a year into his program then when he first started

We don’t have no juniors playing for us neither so that’s not an excuse anymore

Right… come let’s both do the same kind of activity in that heat and see how we do.
i have a feeling that you’ll be in the floor within 10 mins or probably less. I used to work and train in that type of heat for many of yrs, it saps you big time mentally, physically and emotionally

braliey, and Williams arent they juniors?

that game was poor from both sides and the heat was a major factor.

 

[Matty C of the Shire]

Its third week in of playing the same way> Not to mention last year

Yet we finished 2nd in the competition Last year, did we not?

 

[Wiz]

Right… come let’s both do the same kind of activity in that heat and see how we do.
i have a feeling that you’ll be in the floor within 10 mins or probably less. I used to work and train in that type of heat for many of yrs, it saps you big time mentally, physically and emotionally

braliey, and Williams arent they juniors?

that game was poor from both sides and the heat was a major factor.

It’s got nothing to do with me or you lol

I mean none of our players are rookies

 

[Wiz]

Yet we finished 2nd in the competition Last year, did we not?

Soft draw
Bundled out in straight sets
First 2nd place team to do so in a while

Stop with the 2nd place last year… it means nothing, we were sht against the good teams

 

[Capital_Shark]

Right… come let’s both do the same kind of activity in that heat and see how we do.
i have a feeling that you’ll be in the floor within 10 mins or probably less. I used to work and train in that type of heat for many of yrs, it saps you big time mentally, physically and emotionally

braliey, and Williams arent they juniors?

that game was poor from both sides and the heat was a major factor.

It wasn't that ****en hot & they had to play the same conditions

 

[Capital_Shark]

My biggest concern is we don't even look to consider repeat sets when nothing is on. If someone does try what looks like it, it looks entirely unplanned & untrained for.

We spend good chunks of time & effort getting in good-ball then decide its try or nothing and need to start again where we get the ball back after a set of D if it doesn't work.

A few repeat sets on Raiders last night we win easy. Need to control possession and apply pressure. We almost won off the repeat opportunities they gave us, imagine if we create & control our own.

 

[Wiz]

My biggest concern is we don't even look to consider repeat sets when nothing is on. If someone does try what looks like it, it looks entirely unplanned & untrained for.

We spend good chunks of time & effort getting in good-ball then decide its try or nothing and need to start again where we get the ball back after a set of D if it doesn't work.

A few repeat sets on Raiders last night we win easy. Need to control possession and apply pressure. We almost won off the repeat opportunities they gave us, imagine if we create & control our own.

If we were a team that is big on kick chase we could’ve got a couple repeat sets

A number of Trindalls kicks landed right on their tryline

 

[Wilson]

Genuinely asking.

At what point do we expect the coach to make changes to address awful individual defensive decisions? I don't think you overhaul a system after 3 rounds (few more if you count the end of last year). I also don't think we are yet at the stage of dropping players, but we can't be too far off it. We are in a run of conceding 20 points+, particularly against good sides.

If we concede another 40 over the next two weeks do we ring the alarm bells?

What changes can you make to address individual defensive decisions long-term other than dropping the player?

 

[Deleted member 3365]

It wasn't that ****en hot & they had to play the same conditions

The weather excuse is bullshit cause Raiders turned up.

 

[Milkshark]

3rd round in
35 bloody degree heat today

it’s not time to get the knifes out for fitz
the team scored and defended well when we were down to 12 men just remember that

But they played the same way in the night games.

 

[Gumby]

The weather excuse is bullshit cause Raiders turned up.

Exactly. After the **** we’ve dished out these first 3 weeks, I am very nervous that extending this bloke for as long as we have could come back to really bite us in the ass.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Exactly. After the **** we’ve dished out these first 3 weeks, I am very nervous that extending this bloke for as long as we have could come back to really bite us in the ass.

Lol

 

[Capital_Shark]

Exactly. After the **** we’ve dished out these first 3 weeks, I am very nervous that extending this bloke for as long as we have could come back to really bite us in the ass.

Drop him to reggies for a couple weeks to straighten him up I reckon

 

[HaroldBishop]

Drop him to reggies for a couple weeks to straighten him up I reckon

Should have flicked Flanno when he was having a bad stretch.....