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Have been poor for a number of weeks now for me and were again today. At the moment only Tautai seems to offer any go forward and wins the collision and there are rumours he's off at the end of the season. They need to up their game big time over the next month or so.
I feel like flower has been "average" for a while now and seems very much like he's just going through the motions. bar the odd decent game I'm still not convinced by FPN either.
Tautai has been one of our best props this season and despite the odd brain fart/bad offload etc he makes some great yards and is hard to put down. Feel Clubb was doing well after his return too so was a bit gutted when he got injured.
Robbo wrote:I feel like flower has been "average" for a while now and seems very much like he's just going through the motions. bar the odd decent game I'm still not convinced by FPN either.
Tautai has been one of our best props this season and despite the odd brain fart/bad offload etc he makes some great yards and is hard to put down. Feel Clubb was doing well after his return too so was a bit gutted when he got injured.
Totally agreed. Getting bullied in the middle, and last week in particular. Someone needs to have a word.
I thought Sutton was pretty good but in the main I agree. The starting two are the big issue. I don't think there's a lack of effort from Flower or Nuuausala but for whatever reason it's just not happening.
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May be just my impression but it seems for the last couple of seasons our props have coasted through the first two thirds of the season and then turned up to play at the business end. Tactics to keep them fresh for when it matters ? Puts everybody else under pressure to perform though.
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TT has been superb. The biggest disappointment for me is that Navarrete showed a lot of promise in his games this year, so there is no excuse to continue to play FPN and Benny (and Clubb before he was injured) when we could give them a kick up the booty and put in a guy who would not let us down. To me, that missing a trick, and if I was RN, I would be wondering what has to happen to get a game.
Ah, good taste!
What a dreadful thing!
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Flower - solid as always, he normally comes good business end of the year.
FPN - started slow last year, was really killing it towards the grand final run. Expected big things after a full preseason but he's not impressed yet.
Clubb - hope his injured is okay.
Sutton- impressed today needs more minutes
Tautai - one of our top 3 performers this year. Contract up at the end of the season.
Navarrete - impressive so far with limited action
Breatherton - doesn't seem athletic enough, think Crosby and Sutton at his age were ahead of him.
If we keep the 4 some of Flower, FPN, Tautai and Sutton fit and FPN gets better I'm sure we'll be fine.
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Thought it was just me when discussing the state of our props..FPN is lacking that something for me he has everything when you look at him but i don't know it isnt coming together for me at least.
Flower has been average for awhile now,not sure why he has the fan club he has but for me he's coasting through putting,as others have said pressure on others to perform in his place.
Clubb is Clubb along with TT the best of them,young Naverette still to early to tell if he's going to make the grade,apart from the horror show of an injury list i doubt we would have even seen him yet,Sutty is coming along but needs more time on the pitch for my money.
apollosghost wrote:May be just my impression but it seems for the last couple of seasons our props have coasted through the first two thirds of the season and then turned up to play at the business end. Tactics to keep them fresh for when it matters ? Puts everybody else under pressure to perform though.
I agree with this 100%,the last 3/4 years our props have been poor for the majority of the season then pulled it together at the business end of the season.God knows why/how but that's what's happened,I'm hoping for the same this year,
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