Post-Game Discussion Storm v Manly [Round 17, 2023]

[carl]

I like our new socks.

I thought the Alfred Hitchcock moment was nice.

 

[Wombat64]

If we sack 'em the Pens aren't going to shell out for anyone decent anyway. So may as well keep these losers. As long as the Penn family run the joint on the smell of a poxy demountables we're ****ed.

 

[davohan123]

Ruben DCE only 2 players who had a dig tonight.

 

[frank stokes]

8 missed tackles from schuster.

Biggest problem with Schu… he HAS to create at least 2 tries each game to cover for the tries that result from his missed tackles or poor defensive efforts…

His effort has been up the last few games but he remains an absolute turnstile that is scared to put his body on the line…

 

[Eagle 1]

Big Mal, the master of the obvious comment

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Josh A is another plodder like Woods, doesn’t bend the line, no offload. Carrying one on the team is hard enough but 2 is suicide.

Bog average players

I know I sound harsh but there just seems to be no sense of urgency with Aloai.

 

[wombatgc]

WTF is Schuster doing

He was busy at the toll booth, waving anyone in a purple jumper straight thru.
‘If it wasn’t apparent before, it damn well is now. He is the target for opposition big boys to run at/thru. Seriously his lack of effort in defence makes Matt Moylan look like a rock.

 

[Daddycool]

Error after error, poor defense and 24 unanswered points. Not surprised by the performance because they dish it up most weeks. Harper had a real dig and good on him. Schuster was complete rubbish. For all his potential, I’m getting fed up with these poor efforts.

 

[Lyons2beaver]

Hard to see us winning another game
Losses to the finish now like last year
Cues in the rack
Pathetic Crap so hard to watch…..

 

[TheSoaringEagle2023]

Biggest problem with Schu… he HAS to create at least 2 tries each game to cover for the tries that result from his missed tackles or poor defensive efforts…

His effort has been up the last few games but he remains an absolute turnstile that is scared to put his body on the line…

The miss tackles he makes are where the grunts need to help him. Sure he needs to defend, but what can he do if his forwards are dropping balls, giving penalties away and not putting in.

 

[frank stokes]

Thank f* ck Seibs saw sense and played Garrick at FB… would have been 50 with Weekes back there…

Thought Harper had a reasonable game and I reckon Koula is borderline first grade atm… don’t know what has happened to the kid but he is half the player he was pre-jerseygate

 

[wombatgc]

Big Mal, the master of the obvious comment

lol.I thought Blake Laurie was the king after last week, but obviously Mal wanted it more.

 

[Eagle 1]

Need our forwards to play with more mongrel backs can’t do jack if we keep getting steamrolled or keep dropping the ball

They, fwds, were doing it in the 1st half.

 

[Wombat64]

What is the point of our club over the last 10 years? Why are we even there?

 

[HK_Eagle]

Pezet outplayed Schu….

Let that sink in. We have been waiting forever for Schu to deliver and meanwhile, kids like this, step up and do a job that Schu can’t. Seriously!

 

[QueefRichards]

Tuipulotu still a better wing choice than Vaega. Vaega is slow. Tuipulotu's biggest liability is when he jams in, which can be coached out of his game - but Vaega looks very slow.

Harper was great, really happy for him and I think we can make something of the season with a Garrick-Saab-Harper-Koula-Tuipulotu back 5 (while Parker is out). He was better than Koula.

Garrick was very good. Needs to get the skip out of his game though

DCE was outstanding in first half but whenever he plays that well he almost never replicates it throughout the second half and thats where we started getting exposed - Melbourne were still getting plenty of metres even when we had possession in the first 20

Too many errors from the squad, Schuster was again terrible. He had a podcast a few days ago where he said that he didnt really listen to coaches. He needs to, because hes going to plateau and produce some absolute sludge like he did tonight if he just plays the way he wants and doesnt learn from anyone else.

Why was Samuela Fainu not playing?

 

[frank stokes]

The miss tackles he makes are where the grunts need to help him. Sure he needs to defend, but what can he do if his forwards are dropping balls, giving penalties away and not putting in.

Yeah that is all fine but in NRL you cannot afford to have blokes throwing arms out… it is embarrassing…

 

[skull61]

Get rid of Siebold before it’s too late if they worried about money get Tom to coach them for the rest of the year make him earn his money couldn’t do a worse job

 

[ALinda]

Ruben DCE only 2 players who had a dig tonight.

Gotta add Harper who had a dig with them.

 

[Wombat64]

Storm had a mountain of players out tonight as well. But yeah, our recruitment is horrible.

Our recruitment is strategic .... Tigers duds