Round 3 - DRAGONS vs Eels at CommBank

[Ryan]

Yep. Been awful
Just quietly all their recruits have been. JBD, TDS, Brian Kelly.

Interesting. Ryles drops a player after beating the premiers. Flanno brings back 1 from injury, drops the halves cover, so he can't possibly hook one of the starting halves, after getting pumped by 26 points. How much longer can this mockery go on for?

 

[TheRev]

The season rly does kick off on Sunday.. even losing to the Eels we will be the underdogs.. but then the Titans.. if we havent won by then... the drums will start beating.. and I think Flanno will make changes around Kyle... the 2 games after that in the Cows and Manly, these are all the teams tipped for the spoon.. we need to do more than just be competitive.. Flanno knows it too..

When I think about it, dropping Kyle for LKT is just not something thats happening until were in a darker place.. for right now if im Flanno, weve been pretty much as good if not better than some very good oppositions for our fair share of both games bar that 20min faalago show, and without gutho.. now lets see if that will get us wins against other Non Top-4 oppositions.. too early to throw the bath water out.. but its coming if dont start singing that song.

 

[Ryan]

The season rly does kick off on Sunday.. even losing to the Eels we will be the underdogs.. but then the Titans.. if we havent won by then... the drums will start beating.. and I think Flanno will make changes around Kyle... the 2 games after that in the Cows and Manly, these are all the teams tipped for the spoon.. we need to do more than just be competitive.. Flanno knows it too..

When I think about it, dropping Kyle for LKT is just not something thats happening until were in a darker place.. for right now if im Flanno, weve been pretty much as good if not better than some very good oppositions for our fair share of both games bar that 20min faalago show, and without gutho.. now lets see if that will get us wins against other Non Top-4 oppositions.. too early to throw the bath water out.. but its coming if dont start singing that song.

How dark do you think the losing streak at present is? During that streak has Flanno dropped anyone? Not including those ruled out with injury.

 

[Morgan]

How dark do you think the losing streak at present is? During that streak has Flanno dropped anyone? Not including those ruled out with injury.

The night is darkest just before the dawn.

 

[Justadragon]

His attacking stats were poor. The Eels are going for an attacking line up against us

Thats probably the key that Melb showed against us, try and run us off our feet, make no mistakes and we are there for the taking. Though I think Parra have some mistakes in them, should be interesting to see how we stack up.

 

[Justadragon]

The season rly does kick off on Sunday.. even losing to the Eels we will be the underdogs.. but then the Titans.. if we havent won by then... the drums will start beating.. and I think Flanno will make changes around Kyle... the 2 games after that in the Cows and Manly, these are all the teams tipped for the spoon.. we need to do more than just be competitive.. Flanno knows it too..

When I think about it, dropping Kyle for LKT is just not something thats happening until were in a darker place.. for right now if im Flanno, weve been pretty much as good if not better than some very good oppositions for our fair share of both games bar that 20min faalago show, and without gutho.. now lets see if that will get us wins against other Non Top-4 oppositions.. too early to throw the bath water out.. but its coming if dont start singing that song.

Yep agree Rev, even after 2 Rd's, if you have a look at the ladder the last 6 teams are as predicted. The only abomination is the Broncs and Knights have really swapped positions. So already there are rumblings at Manly and Cows, its make or break for them this weekend and we play Parra , the top of the 6 teams running last. If we lose to Parra we will have the longest losing streak under the JV, and that has happened under Flanno's watch, they are the facts, you can have as many excuses as you like, now there are no more.
How ridiculous is it that we are calling Parra a must win game for us its only Rd 3, but it is. I really hope we can win just to get our season rolling and at least give us some hope, but if we dont, you can imagine what is going to go down.

 

[Dragons Chris]

Yep agree Rev, even after 2 Rd's, if you have a look at the ladder the last 6 teams are as predicted. The only abomination is the Broncs and Knights have really swapped positions. So already there are rumblings at Manly and Cows, its make or break for them this weekend and we play Parra , the top of the 6 teams running last. If we lose to Parra we will have the longest losing streak under the JV, and that has happened under Flanno's watch, they are the facts, you can have as many excuses as you like, now there are no more.
How ridiculous is it that we are calling Parra a must win game for us its only Rd 3, but it is. I really hope we can win just to get our season rolling and at least give us some hope, but if we dont, you can imagine what is going to go down.

I just don't get it. He dropped Sione Finau after one game where he wasn't even that bad. I'm fine with or support him laying down hard standards though one game when he wasn't even that bad seems a bit overboard. But then you know who can play one bad game after another after another but still gets picked every week. Not just him. Suli, Sele, Gular, Tu, CT and Kerr as well. In the case of Tu, can't drop him after one bad game even though that it exactly what he did with Finau. Can anyone make sense of it?

 

[Dragon David]

The night is darkest just before the dawn.

Just heard those words on Spotify in the song "Dedicated to the one I love" by the Mamas and the Papas.

 

[Dragon David]

I just don't get it. He dropped Sione Finau after one game where he wasn't even that bad. I'm fine with or support him laying down hard standards though one game when he wasn't even that bad seems a bit overboard. But then you know who can play one bad game after another after another but still gets picked every week. Not just him. Suli, Sele, Gular, Tu, CT and Kerr as well. In the case of Tu, can't drop him after one bad game even though that it exactly what he did with Finau. Can anyone make sense of it?

It is just plain poor coaching and management with a huge amount of stubbornness thrown in is how I see things. And to top it off, poor recruitment and retention which has been the hallmark of our continuing poor yearly performances for nearly the past decade.
Yes we do have several good ones in our squad, certainly, but we need better but if we cannot get better then train and coach what we have much, much, better. Get the guys fitter than fit, get them more hardened, get them to do driolls over and over until they know then like the back of their hands, practise everything with more focus, work on ways to not give away too many 6 agains and short kick outs - just some of tyhe things they have to do over and over.

Attack and defend, attack and defend, attack and defend. Catch, pass, catch, pass, kick, catch, kick, catch - boring I know but got to do it.