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Give your head a shake. Do you honestly think a British team would get a fair shake in OZ? SL has what - 40% of the NRL salary cap. Magnificent effort and our game (much maligned) should be proud. Leeds need to be part of these nights. Well done the Pies.
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I’m sure Not saying if the game had been played down in Oz every thing would have been perfect or Wigan didn’t deserve it. I would always want a SL team to win! But Wigans first try was very debatable and Penrith having the last ditch effort chalked off was controversial . I personally think the referees decision on both incidents was wrong and had he given his on field decisions the other way round then the video ref would more than likely given No Try Wigan and Try Penrith. So Wigan were lucky. Apart from those decisions Liam Moore did quite well (apart from odd decision or so).
I enjoyed the game and the outcome and yes it was great fo SL and might stop the arrogant Oz Press up for 30 seconds.
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| In fantasy world I'd get two aggressive props, a powerful second row and keep Martin. Would not be upset at all to lose Donaldson, Bentley, Sangare, Lisone and Goudemand to make room. I know people talk about Bentley's strengths, but they will only really work if he's part of a big pack, as he was at Sts, and I'd rather keep Martin if have the choice. The others listed just aren't good enough for the first 17.
Some others need to be on notice. Holroyd for one, although its easy to forget that despite being around for a while he really hasn't played a lot. But he needs to show he can get to a decent standard and stay there. I'm particularly disappointed by his lack of impact with the ball. He's massive, and yet like so many of our forwards he gets stopped dead in the tackle.
Another one, who I'll take stick for, is Cam Smith. Making a lot of tackles doesn't make up for being neither a good link man or a battering ram forward, which is what good sides have in their 13. Hopefully a new coach can find a way to make him work, because in too many games he looks like a Championship player.
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| No point judging many in our current squad especially the new signings until we gave a new head coach, lets see how the likes of Frawley Sangare and a fair few others go with a proper coach. Bar about 3 players the whole side gas been shocking all season, and thats why we are currently coach less
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| I get that, but while some issues such as linespeed can be fixed by a different approach, lack of size and power is so fundamental you cannot fix it with just telling players to run harder. Someone like Sangare or Holroyd may be a much better player under a different coach, but no amount of coaching will let Donaldson, Goudemand, Bentley or McDonnell to break tackles or make a lot of yards post contact.
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| I think everyone agrees on what the pack needs. It's just going to be a case of who is available and can/ are we willing to pay for it.
A backrow of Bentley /Gannon / Mcdonnell/ Ruan / looks less of an issue if we can add some real power to the front row and fix the defence issues/ RS game plan
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| Wasn’t there talk a couple of months back about that prop Josh papalii ffrom the raiders being close to completion or does that now depend on if new coach wants him ?
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