Garrick general news thread

[Bearfax]

What I like about Garrick is his common sense professionalism. He works on his game, tries to address his weaknesses, a quiet achiever who gets the job done. In my opinion he's up there with some of our best outside backs of the past. Improves with every year.

 

[Seagles68]

Can we change the thread title for god sake, and every other “clever” title there is on players? They’re so lame.

My beef with Reuben.???

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

I think he should grow a beard, or at least let his hair get longer (at least like Bully, if not Aloiai)
Just a bit too neat, Reuben!

 

[frank stokes]

Well played mods… @lsz

I am liking this replacement of disrespectful thread titles policy…

 

[lsz]

I can not take credit for it but agree totally

 

[Bomb Voyage]

Thanks for changing it, much better

 

[rmd]

I have been a critic of Garrick at Centre, however, he appears to fulfilling Seib’s belief in him this year, with improved defence.

Its early days and just 3 games, however, improvement is noted.

Garrick just needs to realise he has a winger with extreme pace outside him.

A great game from Garrick on the weekend.

 

[LeonardCohen]

What I'm suggesting is that people see what they have a preconceived bias of ... (not aimed at you) ... If you believe for example a player has bad hands. then every time he drops the ball stands out in your memory .. even if stats say he makes less errors than anybody else.

Does he need to improve his defence .. yes ... is he any worse than 90% of other centres .. not IMO.

I appreciate where you're coming from. Personally, I think the whole edge needs a bit of work. It's not really an isolated 'Garrick' concern. He is big enough and willing enough and can certainly hold his own physically. I would just like to see more confidence and connection on the right edge from Ola, DCE, Garrick, and Saab. Too often they are passive and/or hesitant and get picked off. But as you correctly point out, that's happening to most teams, with the exception of Penrith and to a lesser extend Melbourne.

 

[Woodsie]

 

[XV-1]

Garrick still a huge liability in defence.

Does not understand how to slide in defence.
When Cronulla scored to go up 18-12, DCE tells and points to Garrick to slide out as he had the inside player.

What does Garrick do - goes inside to tackle the same player as DCE, 2 on 1 then - Try Cronulla.

Does sliding defence get coached at Manly or is Garrick as thick as a plank of wood?

 

[Bomb Voyage]

Garrick still a huge liability in defence.

Does not understand how to slide in defence.
When Cronulla scored to go up 18-12, DCE tells and points to Garrick to slide out as he had the inside player.

What does Garrick do - goes inside to tackle the same player as DCE, 2 on 1 then - Try Cronulla.

Does sliding defence get coached at Manly or is Garrick as thick as a plank of wood?

both

 

[Brookie1973]

Garrick still a huge liability in defence.

Does not understand how to slide in defence.
When Cronulla scored to go up 18-12, DCE tells and points to Garrick to slide out as he had the inside player.

What does Garrick do - goes inside to tackle the same player as DCE, 2 on 1 then - Try Cronulla.

Does sliding defence get coached at Manly or is Garrick as thick as a plank of wood?

We don’t do coaching at manly. The players are well prepared to deal with chaos though.

 

[Peter C]

When does this lengthy experiment with Garrick at centre end?, he's a better winger than Talau, and Talau is a better centre, and at this stage of his career, Koula, apart from speed, offers SFA, especially when he's on about $650k