The commentary hear reminds me of the sentiment after the Suns game.. and guess what we beat the cats after that.
For some odd reason we're struggling to play to a high level against the lower teams and on the other hand raise the bar against top 8 teams. For this reason I think that we'll put in a good performance. We have a fit list and will have had a well earned rest which should bode well.
However we really need to address some major issues in the defensive unit.. since Melican went down our defence has looked very vulnerable. Rampe has been unRampe like this year and I'm sick of seeing him play on guys 10-15 cm's taller than him, he used to be able to take them but seems to to get badly exposed now. Only exception was against an out of form King. McCartin needs a lot more help against the talls and he hasn't been getting it from Fox. Unless we can bring Melican back in we need to play Brand. He looked so solid a couple of weeks ago. Opposition talls are taking way too many marks forward. Lets replace Fox with Brand. Move Hewett up the field to tag Ollie Wines and bring in O'Riordan. We need GENUINE defenders!
For some odd reason we're struggling to play to a high level against the lower teams and on the other hand raise the bar against top 8 teams. For this reason I think that we'll put in a good performance. We have a fit list and will have had a well earned rest which should bode well.
However we really need to address some major issues in the defensive unit.. since Melican went down our defence has looked very vulnerable. Rampe has been unRampe like this year and I'm sick of seeing him play on guys 10-15 cm's taller than him, he used to be able to take them but seems to to get badly exposed now. Only exception was against an out of form King. McCartin needs a lot more help against the talls and he hasn't been getting it from Fox. Unless we can bring Melican back in we need to play Brand. He looked so solid a couple of weeks ago. Opposition talls are taking way too many marks forward. Lets replace Fox with Brand. Move Hewett up the field to tag Ollie Wines and bring in O'Riordan. We need GENUINE defenders!