Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:01 pm  

wertyuio wrote:

Puletua is not the player he was, whether that's due to an injury, conditioning or old age. In part, it was his poor performance that cost in the grand final,

Rubbish it was Michael Shenton's injury what cost us the Grand Final.

Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:14 pm  

on_the_charge wrote:

Rubbish it was Michael Shenton's injury what cost us the Grand Final.

Naaah it was clearly Meli...always is his fault when we lose a grand final, right?

Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:26 pm  

My theory was that it was Wello going off that nearly won us the GF and Shenton going off that stopped us. Had he not gone off, we'd have won. Had that happened Royston would probably still be here. Small margins and all that.

Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:31 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

My theory was that it was Wello going off that nearly won us the GF and Shenton going off that stopped us. Had he not gone off, we'd have won. Had that happened Royston would probably still be here. Small margins and all that.

Totally agree with all that. Losing Shenton was horrific because as we all know Leeds ran riot down the left our right where Shenton was stationed.

Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:50 pm  

Albion wrote:

Naaah it was clearly Meli...always is his fault when we lose a grand final, right?

Disease, world poverty and the Olympics being in London are all Meli's fault. He is the root cause of all evil in the world.

Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:07 pm  

Scott Moore missing two crucial tackles contributed a lot to us losing the grand final.

Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:25 am  

You know,one big positive is that Nathan Brown has very little to do these days so will (hopefully) be studying each game and identify where we are to improve. He'll have seen Monday's game and already be planning on how to resolve the shortcomings.

Re: Drastic changes needed ASAP! : Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:57 am  

We should have changed things around ages ago, preferably after our third defeat to Wigan. It's too late to make changes now. For example, Gaskell has not had enough game time, even in the u20s, to be at his best in the team at this stage in the season. However, even if he was the next best thing to Sean Long, he wouldn't get a game because the present regime have no intention of playing him unless Hohaia is injured.