: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:29 am  

Paul2812 wrote:

Spot on. Playing 5 drives and a kick with a flat attack leaves the halves redundant.

I thought adding Nigel Wright as an Assistant Coach was meant to be adding new ideas in attack ?

Still waiting.......

As boring as it may be, at least we were finishing the sets against saints and getting good field position. Couldn't even complete sets when Catalan decided to wake up

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:22 am  

manoa thompsons knees wrote:

Been told he will be on the same flight home with his mates from Manly.

Bollards.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:45 pm  

Wolfboy wrote:

The first half you couldnt say Monas wasnt their, his tackling was brilliant. He got up and chased down everyone even after taking a shot to the head.
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Agree completely. It was Monas kick that put pressure on them on their own line. Chased it himself, made the tackle and made the second tackle that forced the dropped ball. Wire posession 10 out, bam, missile from Higham to Carvell 10-6. It's easy to moan but monas didn't do much wrong.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:52 pm  

Steve51 wrote:

Agree completely. It was Monas kick that put pressure on them on their own line. Chased it himself, made the tackle and made the second tackle that forced the dropped ball. Wire posession 10 out, bam, missile from Higham to Carvell 10-6. It's easy to moan but monas didn't do much wrong.

Agreed. But he also made a glaring one on one miss that led to a Catalan try (he often misses crucial tackles despite being generally very good defensively - lack of concentration?).

At the end of the day we need more from a scrum half and top overseas signing than being hard working - good passing game, ability to make breaks, varied kicking game etc.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:14 pm  

Steve51 wrote:

Agree completely. It was Monas kick that put pressure on them on their own line. Chased it himself, made the tackle and made the second tackle that forced the dropped ball. Wire posession 10 out, bam, missile from Higham to Carvell 10-6. It's easy to moan but monas didn't do much wrong.

Monas was ok. I just think we need to use him better.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:17 pm  

Have we not noticed the different tactics being used for MonasN It appears Jimmy wants to use him at first receiver just to give the ball to Briers and then recieve it back to get the second rows involved in continuing to drive up the middle. Playing to game plan?