I'm not so sure about Bird. It was Griffin who signed him, wasn't it? He's been given a deadline twice now and still no word on the contract offer being pulled. I'm concerned that Griffin and his staff are too proud to admit to making mistakes.
Whose poor judgement are you talking about?
It's possible coach Griffin is picking Kerr to start at prop due to bad judgement. Not as a result of Woods hamstring problem, if any such problem still exists.
I could almost feel sorry for Mbye. I don't think he expected he'd be first choice fullback.
He would have trained during the off season as a shadow player for the positions of hooker centre halves wings and fullback now that's a lot of positions.
It's a solid theory, that of Mbye's defensive organisation from the back but so far it has proved false in practice.
Not so sure. The coach made a noise all off season about fullback being competition between Ramsey and Sloan.
Unfortunately by that time the only thing left will be to avoid the spoon.
This is just my view watching the game on TV gives you a false read of the game. You have to be there live. I analyse games and enjoy watching games live. The fullback organises the defensive line but he DOES NOT miss the tackles. You can't blame the fullback for players missing tackles in the defensive line that is a genuine misunderstanding that most supporters make. The defensive line has been good the problem is the missed tackles
And it was the same with Sloan at the back?
There is also something to be said for the greatest defence not being much use if the team can't score tries.
Don't know
Well we will agree to disagree on this point I watched our 2008 team developing under Bennett I was fortunate enough to be at that 2010 GF . We won that GF because the previous 2 yrs Bennett instilled a defensive mindset, defensive line speed , very few unforced turnovers or missed tackles. The attack developed from that. That is what we need now more than ever a return to those basic fundamentals. The rest will come. My old mentor told me you can have the best attacking team in the comp, you can score 30 points a game but if the other team scores 31 you lose. Bennett mentality was to keep the opposition under 10 points so 2 tries a game, we lost 7 games that GF winning year and on each occasion the opposition scored more than 10 points. Defence in my opinion is your No.1 priority so you can't be missing on an average 25 a game which we have. Just my views.
No doubt defence is very important but the 2010 team had no trouble scoring points either.
I was just reading, if he's so unhappy with the options at fullback that he has to put a reject Tigers utility in, maybe he could get Matt Dufty who's apparently on the outer at the Dogs.
True but the bottom line is, defence should be easier to fix than attack. No one in first grade gets to where they are without being able to tackle. So it's all about committment, determination, desperation rather than attack whcih has a lot to do with ability.
With the best defence in the League, Saints possessed a goal-line defence that often appeared impenetrable. The team's trademark to tough it out in the first half and pile on the points in the second half was no more evident than in the 2010 NRL Grand Final. Saints based their game around defence in the knowledge that the attack would benefit and follow.
I disagree although our defence was no.1 our attack believe this or not was ranked 7th and in fact 6th out of the top 8. We had issues scoring but because of our defence we were able to win more than lose.