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Round 23: TITANS vs SHARKS (2024)

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Sharks are missing both their starting 6 & 7. Sorry but there should be no excuses for a loss here if we are serious about being on a path to improvement. We can't afford to keep dropping games that we should be winning.
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We’ll be fine, it’s not like we’re playing the Tigers.
 
I think Beau has shown some mongrel for us and we'll miss that against this pack. Klese needs to repay the Forum's faith in him. I'm pretty sure we all thought he should be ahead of Beau earlier this season. Not what I'm seeing lately though. I would love to see him go munyuk and let em know he's out there.

As usual, I'm losing sleep about our centres and Lofi getting shredded.

I hope DF can whack the crap out of Hazleton like he did last time. He just seems made for DF's shoulders.
 
I’ll be a Lofi defender until I die

We’ve lived through mead and don and many other wingers who were just so bog average on all sides of the ball that I’ve forgotten them. Dude has the best strike rate in the nrl era (in fact fastest to 40 since the 60s iirc)

Jojo is doing so well locking down that right side which used to be where we conceded all our points in seasons past and now hes shown he can attack and supply tries on the right (which a lot of sides struggle to do in a left side dominant attacking meta)

I just want them to both remain healthy for the rest of the season and into our unlikely 8th/9th place finish 😎
 
Nah I was saying apart from mead and don I can’t remember any other winger

And even titans legend mead is more a meme status than an actual legend status imo. Him and Donny gave a lot of heart and soul to the club in the down times but they weren’t world beaters or breaking nrl records etc
 
As much as I am intrigued by the rocks and diamonds of AKP's career so far and have liked his effort-areas in recent weeks, I am anxious for him to be consistently doing his job for the team rather than his admittedly impressive highlights reel.

I want to sneak this into the conversation. As comparisons will inevitably be made with Ken Irvine, I feel those who didn't see him play might like a bit of insight. Firstly, Mongo had a connection with the Coast, retiring here until his untimely passing at only 50 from cancer. He was active in O35's touch while he was still able. What the records don't say about him as a winger are about his defence and courage. He was a little bloke, a bit like Slater, and astonishingly quick but in an era when wingers rarely got the ball he had to go looking for it. For most of his rugby league career he played under the unlimited tackle rule, bash and barge, for North Sydney which wasn't the greatest team. Yet his defence is what made him an automatic selection. Nothing got passed him. He gets my vote for the next immortal. Coote was a very good player in an era of lots of good back-rowers but there has only ever been one Ken Irvine.
 
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Thanks for the Irvine summary, T. I didn't know that about his defensive prowess. So crucial, especially now with wingers having to cover bad reads from their centres.

I'm not sure how this sits anymore as a late shot can cost your team but I imagine I'm not alone in having been coached to make contact with the man whether we got there late - just make sure you've got someone and let em know you're there. But one thing I hate to see, is when a winger takes nobody and is just between the centre and the winger, when one of them scores. As much as he's probably a great bloke, the best winger I've seen do that on a regular basis was Nathan Merritt (I encourage other nominations here as I'd like to take him off the top of the no-contact winger list). I've seen Lofi do it too regularly this season and want it to stop.

Lofi could turn out to be a great winger but at the moment he's just a good finisher. The thing I want to see in him consistently is heart - taking tough runs and chasing down line breakers and always whacking someone in D. He's shown he can do it but doing it every week will be the measure of him. He's had a good couple of weeks but Robbo and Ivan will test him. He's got time to prepare for what's coming.

He was good on Over The Black Dot this week. He's got a million dollar smile.
 
I won't argue with any of that MT and I'd like to add some very old school logic. Even way back in the day, coaches adhered to: when it's 13 v 13 if you are out of play then you'd better take one of them with you. In that evolutionary period where drills became the staple of training and getting 3 on 2's and 2 on 1's were the priority, science found a way to permeate traditional nouse. Call it what you will but an overlap is still an overlap and those defending the sideline have got to get their man.

Lol@nathan.merritt and I will raise you the Dragons' Ian Herron and more recently the Forbes Ferrari :)
 
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Titanic said:
I won't argue with any of that MT and I'd like to add some very old school logic. Even way back in the day, coaches adhered to: when it's 13 v 13 if you are out of play then you'd better take one of them with you. In that evolutionary period where drills became the staple of training and getting 3 on 2's and 2 on 1's were the priority, science found a way to permeate traditional nouse. Call it what you will but an overlap is still an overlap and those defending the sideline have got to get their man.

Lol@nathan.merritt and I will raise you the Dragons' Ian Herron and more recently the Forbes Ferrari :)
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Ha! I'd forgotten about Chook Herron but I always wondered if like Colin Best, he was always made to look stupid by his centre (I'm looking at you Gasnier - F me, fire up!).
 
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