Titan4Life
Star Player
If we can retain them and not lose them to other clubs. Knowing us we probably will let them go.
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Round 17: SOUTHS vs TITANS
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If we can retain them and not lose them to other clubs. Knowing us we probably will let them go.
5 Year Contract
Rep Player
Im having Hymel Hunt flashbacks!
Titan4Life
Star Player
Don't remind me of that. What were we thinking?
teke
Coach
We were right in thinking Hymel would never be a first grader
Supergoose
Rep Player
Totally exhilarating to get that win and we stay in the hunt for another week. Encouraging signs and if we can get rid of the rubbish from Falloon and can get the positions settled when the origin players return, we can beat anyone.
Really enjoyed the display put on by Nelson and Kingston, but Minichiello was our outstanding player tonight. Mini has been great in the last three games and has shown me he still has value for us.
We had a shaky start with Mead and Gordon making a couple of blunders but the whole side stuck at it and kept coming all night.
I'd also like to single out a series of tackles that Roberts made at a time when our line had been scrambled. He ran down Johnston and followed up with two tackles from marker to allow us to get set again. He showed what a remarkable athlete and competitor he is and I'm so glad he has found his way to our side. I thought Taka did some good things too amongst some ordinary things and it will be interesting to see if he can hold his starting spot.
Here's hoping the blokes who played tonight can continue to contribute when the origin stars are back on deck and let's. Old those origin stars can get some faith in these blokes and not overplay their hand.
Really enjoyed the display put on by Nelson and Kingston, but Minichiello was our outstanding player tonight. Mini has been great in the last three games and has shown me he still has value for us.
We had a shaky start with Mead and Gordon making a couple of blunders but the whole side stuck at it and kept coming all night.
I'd also like to single out a series of tackles that Roberts made at a time when our line had been scrambled. He ran down Johnston and followed up with two tackles from marker to allow us to get set again. He showed what a remarkable athlete and competitor he is and I'm so glad he has found his way to our side. I thought Taka did some good things too amongst some ordinary things and it will be interesting to see if he can hold his starting spot.
Here's hoping the blokes who played tonight can continue to contribute when the origin stars are back on deck and let's. Old those origin stars can get some faith in these blokes and not overplay their hand.
Jonathonbcode
Junior
Knock on wood that Mead is secured in the fullback position...
shamus
Rep Player
David Bowie and probably not..:nope:
The win was a nice top up for my vBookie account! I was speaking to a couple of the guys yesterday and they were very confident of getting the win tonight. The boys defended brilliantly, yes souths dropped some ball, but they certainly were not atrocious. We have got a good team of players that are capable of defending against any team.. We just need some structure to get us over their line. Great conversion from Gordon for his own try also, he did well to get himself back into position to score that try too.
shamus
Rep Player
Gordon is an average kicker (only coz he isn't a kicker)...but I would take him over Mortimer every time.
C-Whiz
Coach
I watched about 5 minutes of this game (around the 30 minute mark) and I saw us pass like we had trained to pass the ball and run some plays. The rest I listened to on the radio.
The thing that concerns me is whether we actually played well, whether Souths played really bad or if we have just become so used to boring hit-ups that any passing game looks exciting. Completions and penatlies says everyone played ****e, yet I was still excited to get a win and see the ball passed side-to-side.
Like others, I pray that this doesn;t become the geen light for a Carty/Zillman revival. From the 5 minutes i saw it reeked of Henry coaching and Mortimer showing how a proper half back steers a team around, rather than just looking for opportunity on opposition errors.
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ps, on the radio the last 10 minutes sounded like we really muscled up in defence on your try line. About 3 or 4 sets. I can;t wait to see it, but that sounded like the sort of desperate defence that can win games when you can only score 3 tries. At least it sounds like we still have that try-line defence.
The thing that concerns me is whether we actually played well, whether Souths played really bad or if we have just become so used to boring hit-ups that any passing game looks exciting. Completions and penatlies says everyone played ****e, yet I was still excited to get a win and see the ball passed side-to-side.
Like others, I pray that this doesn;t become the geen light for a Carty/Zillman revival. From the 5 minutes i saw it reeked of Henry coaching and Mortimer showing how a proper half back steers a team around, rather than just looking for opportunity on opposition errors.
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ps, on the radio the last 10 minutes sounded like we really muscled up in defence on your try line. About 3 or 4 sets. I can;t wait to see it, but that sounded like the sort of desperate defence that can win games when you can only score 3 tries. At least it sounds like we still have that try-line defence.
Supergoose
Rep Player
Massive vBookie win. I think that takes you to the front. I added around $400 to my accoun backing the underdogs this round. Wish I had have splashed a bit more vCash on it now (and some real stuff)
I only had a bit of the real stuff on, i needed the vCash top up too.
Numbers
Junior
We now have the equal best away record, 5-2 (Bulldogs) and the equal worst home record, 2-6 (Sharks). As the Yanks say, go figure...
Titanic
Immortal
Some of you guys were watching a different game but I'll let you debate who I mean 
I'll take the 2 and not much else because this was a case of going three steps forward and two steps back … also there should be about 20 quotes for the ridiculous things our coach says thread … what's this confidence crap he keeps going on about? Has he run out of factual football analyses to discuss?
Liked the new faces, liked Mortimer/Kelly, disliked the horrible flow of the game, disliked Zillman whose try was his only redeeming factor (the tackles are to be expected in first grade and his catching was only just short of woeful) but truly loved the 2 points.
Finally, anybody else getting suspicious that we go better without Myles and quite possibly Bird? I think in Taylor we are starting to see some consistency.
I'll take the 2 and not much else because this was a case of going three steps forward and two steps back … also there should be about 20 quotes for the ridiculous things our coach says thread … what's this confidence crap he keeps going on about? Has he run out of factual football analyses to discuss?
Liked the new faces, liked Mortimer/Kelly, disliked the horrible flow of the game, disliked Zillman whose try was his only redeeming factor (the tackles are to be expected in first grade and his catching was only just short of woeful) but truly loved the 2 points.
Finally, anybody else getting suspicious that we go better without Myles and quite possibly Bird? I think in Taylor we are starting to see some consistency.
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shamus
Rep Player
Hey Whiz, yes we did muscle up and we were pretty damn good but TBH had Souths hung onto another 15-20% of the ball throughout the game we would have been done by 20 easy. In other words, Souths were woeful.
Hail Sezer
Moderator
Really impressed with Nelson and Kingston. Would be fine with either of them playing first grade each week.
Mini is playing with more heart than we've seen for years IMO. You all know ive never been his biggest fan, but this year he has been great.
Mead was exceptionally good and kept himself busy which really benefitted us. Zillman was good for Zillman but he still would be behind Mead by a country mile, even when he plays like last night.
I think Taka was again guilty of doing too much. Big call but I'd put Blair in at left Centre instead.
Kelly and Mortimer need to be our halves. Simple.
Its always going to be difficult for a player to be potent in attack in our structure. Roberts impressed me a lot again, this time with his defence. Every time the bunnies made a break I'd look for JR to gun them down. Snipered 'em. Most of us on the forum had questions surrounding his defence as a centre, but I think he has been superb given his age and inexperience.
Overall, poor game, Bunnies were appalling, but we showed the grit we had at the start of the year. Feels a lot better winning than losing, albeit ugly.
Mini is playing with more heart than we've seen for years IMO. You all know ive never been his biggest fan, but this year he has been great.
Mead was exceptionally good and kept himself busy which really benefitted us. Zillman was good for Zillman but he still would be behind Mead by a country mile, even when he plays like last night.
I think Taka was again guilty of doing too much. Big call but I'd put Blair in at left Centre instead.
Kelly and Mortimer need to be our halves. Simple.
Its always going to be difficult for a player to be potent in attack in our structure. Roberts impressed me a lot again, this time with his defence. Every time the bunnies made a break I'd look for JR to gun them down. Snipered 'em. Most of us on the forum had questions surrounding his defence as a centre, but I think he has been superb given his age and inexperience.
Overall, poor game, Bunnies were appalling, but we showed the grit we had at the start of the year. Feels a lot better winning than losing, albeit ugly.
Tamwelg
Tech Administrator
Titanic, you make a good point re Myles / Bird. Do you think the Mead try (which I though was one of our best backline movement in a long time) would have been scored with Bird there on the left? Bird has been one of our best players over the past few years, but does he get too much ball and shut down some back line movement, and is that him demanding it or Sezer feeding him.
Well didnt expect to Win that one, Rabbits played poorly but a win is a win, Great Defense on our line.
Ioane was awesome, Carter deserves to start, just needs to watch his penaltys. Zillman got a good try showed what he can do. I think Zillman would play better if pressure was put on him , as he knows he has the FB spot no matter what or even a place in the side for that matter.
Meads Defense was awesome, he redeemed himself after the first try from the rabbits.
Overall happy with the Win.
Ioane was awesome, Carter deserves to start, just needs to watch his penaltys. Zillman got a good try showed what he can do. I think Zillman would play better if pressure was put on him , as he knows he has the FB spot no matter what or even a place in the side for that matter.
Meads Defense was awesome, he redeemed himself after the first try from the rabbits.
Overall happy with the Win.
gotitans101_
Coach
Some of you guys were watching a different game but I'll let you debate who I mean
Finally, anybody else getting suspicious that we go better without Myles and quite possibly Bird? I think in Taylor we are starting to see some consistency.
Myles yes, Bird no. Myles always looks like he's just going through the motions. He needs to harden up and run hard.
teke
Coach
Such a terrible game of footy last night, it's up there with one of the worst I have seen this yr