John Nick
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Same thing with RTS and Rocco.
Got to gel better in defence. Both were stood up by Timokos try. But that's going to happen to many centers this year
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Got to gel better in defence. Both were stood up by Timokos try. But that's going to happen to many centers this year
Wrighty
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Yes, and I should have said that. In the championship minutes Montoya kept his composure and made some good tackles. OK you have turned me around a little bit.
My other reason I have against him is there was a one percenter moment in the melbourne match with 4 minutes to go where Montoya made a catch and they tackled him and bullied him back into the in goal and got a repeat set from which they scored. I felt Ed as the bigger man would have made back into the field of play and I also felt on that one percenter play that Marcelo didn't fight with all his being to get into the field of play. Looked like he was just pleased he defused the kick.
But yes granted Montoya caught my eye in the last ten minutes as someone who really stood up when it counted.
Needs to be more consistent across the 80 minutes if we keep picking him.
Think Moala Graham Taufa’s stocks are rising fast too. Been playing centre but back onto the wing with Leiataua back for the nsw cup team
Wrighty
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Indeed and Berry despite having a sublime game got stepped cold out of his shoes on the E Strange non try.
Luckily Tuapiki did a try saving tackle to rescue that situation.
. Speaking of which I counted three try saving tackles by Tuapiki on the replay that Reece Walsh two years ago for us would not have made, Tuapiki was a big reason for the win last night notwithstanding that strange decision he made to catch a ball 50 cms from the touch line and going into touch himself.
Commentators initially thought the same as you but on replay it showed be barely got to it while still in the field of play.
Unlikely bro. Cnk walks straight back in. No questions asked. Taine is a solid back up though.
i straight up thought he played himself out of spot in the trials. what I love about him is that he is such an effort guy. there isn't a lot of skill or x factor to him, but he is a competitor. if you watch closely if he is beaten on a tackle the man is sprinting back to finish the tackle.
on the non-pass to Metcalf for the try. I may be in the minority but if you make a line break and aren't comfortable getting a pass way to your support (like a good pass where they can comfortably catch it) take the tackle if you get tackles up your sleeve. I also wonder if they saw something in the video on Canberra where its better where defenders are easily fooled on a dummy or are always looking to go after support players, hence blokes last night had white line fever.
Wrighty
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I also on the Ford line break, from watching the replay, noticed Metcalf was about ten feet to his left. Would have been easier for Ford to pass if Luke had been closer to his hip then Ford could have just pop passed it to him.
Tragic
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Yeah. Even when he didn't pass to Metcalfe that wasn't as bad as it looked when I watched it live, watched the replay this morning and he looks left and metcalf has defenders either side of him so ford looks right and there is not a clear pass on; if he looked left again metcalf has burned the defenders and is clear but it's too late and he goes into the tackle.
Next time he needs to see Metcalfe and realise he has wheels enough to get clear but then he might miss anyone trailing on the right - so it's a split second decision.
Tragic
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I just reckon that TT is doing a good enough job that CNK will come back via cup. In the past we haven't had that luxury.
Not a repeat offender so should get off with a fine you would think.
I think Montoya did pretty well in a tough situation with his effort at stopping Timoko's try and Kosi would have had even less chance in that situation. Montoya had to stay out on his opposite winger to avoid the easy overlap try in the corner until the last moment when it became clear Roger wasn't making the tackle, then has next to no time to get himself between a rampaging Timoko and the tryline. As the bigger man I am guessing Kosi's lateral movement isn't quite as good and he would have struggled to get himself in position to make a tackle without leaving his wing open.
I'll give you the crazy ass intercept though, that was atrocious.
Couple of big moments from Montoya that get forgotten like that tackle on Rapana after a break to dislodge the ball late in the game too. Both our wingers have a tendency to jam in at times though for whatever reason and it’s something that good teams will make us pay like the storm did last weekend, that’s why I’ve always been an advocate of RTS at the back until CNK gets back for their defensive prowess alone. That’s no slight on Tuaupiki and as another poster mentioned that his effort defensively is night and day better than we ever got out of Walsh
Taine is becoming good enough to get an NRL start, be interesting to see what he does, he could get a start in one of the teams in the NRL in his current form.
Been really surprised by how fast he is adapting. Certainly there could be an argument made for seeing how CNK goes with a NSW cup run for conditioning testing.
Thanks to Taine's form there is no panic to rush CNK back in early.
He is putting on muscle mass of the explosive kind, rather than the big heavy cosmetic kind, I think he is one of those players who may become much better with time, a lot of time, it is whether the Warriors wanna stay the course.
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