Great White
Great White
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I was just doing some soul searching myself, to see what I could come up with regarding my beloved Sharks, who frankly I am livid with. But amongst all this I have realised a big part of our problems, is our forwards.
Now I know we always say of late, we need some speed in the backs etc, and I totally agree, but we are hugely lacking go forward.
Now I just went onto the Stats section on NRL.com, and did a quick 5 min researching, so don't shoot me down too much, but I basically compared our forwards stats to Asotasi, Price, Petro etc, as I know these to me are the best front rowers in our game today, all of which AVERAGE over 120m per game, just a quick look at Poore, in his 3 games was 155,120 odd and 90m, and Dougie & Gal are our best with mid 90's each. Last year we were so much more dominant with Peek, Nutley, Snowden and Dougie, now there could be a few reasons for this, which I think all are valid, one is poor, slow service from our hooker, which I believe is a huge part of it, and the other is our forwards just aren't bending the line like last year, in Dougie defence, he has only average high 50's in the mins department all year, which I think is a reflection of Ricky not wanting to burn the kid out, giving the pace of this years game, plus previous 3 season pretty much not missing a game and playing minimum 75 mins a game.
Plus the fact the play the ball speed is so much faster, it gives other teams time to get up off their line to bash us too.
So as much as we like to say we need a great outside back, which we do, we also need another HIGH QUALITY front rower too, so going for a Dave Taylor or a Justin Poore is something we do need, I am not necessarily saying these 2, but with the shortage of quality, they have to be considered. In saying that, I believe both are long shots at getting from either club, neither want to leave where they are ideally, hence we would have to pay big overs for them. Especially when Souths are looking at throwing 700k at Taylor?
I think we need 5 quality players for next year, 2 Props, Second Rower, and 2 outside backs, then the rest to be made up of yougsters, all this bearing in mind 13 of our players are up end of the season.
Aside from that, I also think Ricky should re-think his staffing, get some new ideas on board, and conditioners, I mean Bennett did it 3 yrs ago and won the comp that year. As do players, coaching staff get comfortable too.
Now I know we always say of late, we need some speed in the backs etc, and I totally agree, but we are hugely lacking go forward.
Now I just went onto the Stats section on NRL.com, and did a quick 5 min researching, so don't shoot me down too much, but I basically compared our forwards stats to Asotasi, Price, Petro etc, as I know these to me are the best front rowers in our game today, all of which AVERAGE over 120m per game, just a quick look at Poore, in his 3 games was 155,120 odd and 90m, and Dougie & Gal are our best with mid 90's each. Last year we were so much more dominant with Peek, Nutley, Snowden and Dougie, now there could be a few reasons for this, which I think all are valid, one is poor, slow service from our hooker, which I believe is a huge part of it, and the other is our forwards just aren't bending the line like last year, in Dougie defence, he has only average high 50's in the mins department all year, which I think is a reflection of Ricky not wanting to burn the kid out, giving the pace of this years game, plus previous 3 season pretty much not missing a game and playing minimum 75 mins a game.
Plus the fact the play the ball speed is so much faster, it gives other teams time to get up off their line to bash us too.
So as much as we like to say we need a great outside back, which we do, we also need another HIGH QUALITY front rower too, so going for a Dave Taylor or a Justin Poore is something we do need, I am not necessarily saying these 2, but with the shortage of quality, they have to be considered. In saying that, I believe both are long shots at getting from either club, neither want to leave where they are ideally, hence we would have to pay big overs for them. Especially when Souths are looking at throwing 700k at Taylor?
I think we need 5 quality players for next year, 2 Props, Second Rower, and 2 outside backs, then the rest to be made up of yougsters, all this bearing in mind 13 of our players are up end of the season.
Aside from that, I also think Ricky should re-think his staffing, get some new ideas on board, and conditioners, I mean Bennett did it 3 yrs ago and won the comp that year. As do players, coaching staff get comfortable too.
