Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:52 am  

When's McDermott to Bulls gona be announced then?

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:04 pm  

He doesn't make it easy to like him does he. 2 unused subs tonight...

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:07 pm  

he brings it on himself.delaney hardly played either. some players struggled to get off the floor at the end. they were shattered.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:29 pm  

If the coach took the blame when he pulls a stunt like this it would be bad enough but he doesn't.
It's left to a scapegoat who was likely exhausted / flogged into a position where a bad performance or mistake was inevitable, this week's being Golding.

Whatever your beliefs on the coach and his competence you can't argue with the fact he makes it harder than it needs to be,especially on an aging team that is still lacking certain roles and skills.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:37 pm  

Emagdnim13 wrote:

If the coach took the blame when he pulls a stunt like this it would be bad enough but he doesn't.
It's left to a scapegoat who was likely exhausted / flogged into a position where a bad performance or mistake was inevitable, this week's being Golding.

Whatever your beliefs on the coach and his competence you can't argue with the fact he makes it harder than it needs to be,especially on an aging team that is still lacking certain roles and skills.

After a poor first half we were pretty impressive in second have but could not finish them off go for the jugular as you say we had fresh legs and just didn't use them. Even for McDermott 2 unused subs is ridiculous.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:03 am  

I can understand not using Burrow as Parcel was playing so well, but I'd have brought Keinhorst on at centre and moved Sutcliffe into the 2nd row. Sutcliffe is such a threat with the ball at times, we need to find a place for him in the 13, either give him the 4 shirt, or build him up into a 2nd rower.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:13 am  

Charlie Sheen wrote:

I can understand not using Burrow as Parcel was playing so well, but I'd have brought Keinhorst on at centre and moved Sutcliffe into the 2nd row. Sutcliffe is such a threat with the ball at times, we need to find a place for him in the 13, either give him the 4 shirt, or build him up into a 2nd rower.

Given how our back row was blowing, I thought he could have brought Burrow on and moved Parcell to loose for a spell.

If he doesn't think the bench is strong enough then it has to rest on his shoulders. This is his squad and the lack of variety within it is because of how he shaped it

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:20 am  

burrow could have gone to 7, moon to centre and sutty to 2nd row.plenty of options. he simply chose not to use them.it really is time to say thank you and move on

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:56 am  

tad rhino wrote:

burrow could have gone to 7, moon to centre and sutty to 2nd row.plenty of options. he simply chose not to use them.it really is time to say thank you and move on

Absolutely spot on that's what it needed, I suppose Brian macs reply to any criticism would be we won the game what more do you want. Full credit to the team for a display of never say die attitude, at one stage saints looked like they would run out easy winners. We need desperately to get moon back into the centre position with mc guire and burrow playing half backs.
Looks like walker has made the full back role his. Although he has not had a lot of tackling to undertake so time will tell on that. Unfortunately briscoe has gone, whilst he caught the high balls well he should have rounded the saints full back. The briscoe of old would have done it. Looking at the remaining fixtures we should finish second. Could then be an extremely interesting play off game at home.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:00 am  

Who comes in when he eventually leaves?

I'd like to see an Aussie take the role