Round 11: Dolphins vs South Sydney

[Red]

The difference in the team when JMK came on is astonishing. I hope that has FINALLY convinced the coach Plath is ok to play hooker for 20min max to give JMK a rest. Personally I'd go with Donoghue instead but coach seems insistent he wants Plath to play hooker instead. For 15~20 it's not the worst thing. Run around tackling everything then bring JMK on to run riot. But the bottom line is, Bulldogs are probably bottom 4 and Souths might well finish top 4. This will be a really good game.

 

[Liverbird with Phins up]

Weakening other positions to cover outs in another position is a bad practice in sport management. Plath at hooker is a classic example. He is our best lock, as shown against the bulldogs, and an average 9.

This term "he can fill in" is a reciepe for failure.

It becomes even worse in prime skill positions. 9 is the most important position on the field in the modern game and you trust it to a part-timer? Madness.

Going forward, id prefer, and think its better practice to give a youngerster those 15mins off the bench to blood them. Especially considering we noe have extra bench spots allowing us to do so. Prepare for him to be missing by getting a youngster who is a 9 the minutes he needs to be up to speed.

 

[Liverbird with Phins up]

Hope to see the young 9 we recruited somewhere soon. Lets not waste that roster spot, like we have with some recruits we have gotten.

 

[Equaliser]

Hope to see the young 9 we recruited somewhere soon. Lets not waste that roster spot, like we have with some recruits we have gotten.

Isn't John Fineanganofo meant to be a hooker?

 

[Liverbird with Phins up]

Isn't John Fineanganofo meant to be a hooker?

Yeah thats him. I couldnt spell his name

 

[mr_c]

Yeah thats him. I couldnt spell his name

hes a covereted half as wasnt much better there don't see him setting world in fire in 9 jersey

 

[Liverbird with Phins up]

Just heard Tood Carney talking about making a 6 into a 7. He said its too hard. The point he made, thats transferable to other position, is that under fatigue/pressure and stress, players go back to what they know and what they are good at.

Its much to the point I tried to make above with the 9 and Plath.

Galvin is suffering with it playing 7, being a running 6 by nature.

Listen to him on The Run Home. Intelligent points, and something I agree with having been involved in developing young sports people myself.

 

[Red]

Weakening other positions to cover outs in another position is a bad practice in sport management. Plath at hooker is a classic example. He is our best lock, as shown against the bulldogs, and an average 9.

This term "he can fill in" is a reciepe for failure.

It becomes even worse in prime skill positions. 9 is the most important position on the field in the modern game and you trust it to a part-timer? Madness.

Going forward, id prefer, and think its better practice to give a youngerster those 15mins off the bench to blood them. Especially considering we noe have extra bench spots allowing us to do so. Prepare for him to be missing by getting a youngster who is a 9 the minutes he needs to be up to speed.

I'd rather Kurt D come on to give JMK a rest but as is, we need someone to fill in for him because he can't play for 80min. Plath isn't the worst choice IMO. His dummy half service is woeful but his defence is excellent.

 

[mr_c]

corect me if i wrong but has latrell only played for bunnies once against us as in previous years we had losses against bunnies but not by huge margins , also find intresting this we only lost one magic round game and bunnies won all of theres

 

[Liverbird with Phins up]

I'd rather Kurt D come on to give JMK a rest but as is, we need someone to fill in for him because he can't play for 80min. Plath isn't the worst choice IMO. His dummy half service is woeful but his defence is excellent.

Id guess what I am getting at, instead of getting knowles, when we had Gilbert, Plath and K D all for the one position, could we not have got a backup hooker?

And if the young fella is your back up, why are you not using him? And why are you continuing with the same strategy that had seen us losing?

What will be interesting is if JMK misses time, do we go back to plath, that saw us struggle, rather then use the young 9 we have? I would question our selection mindset in we went back to the samething expecting different results.

 

[Dolph]

Id guess what I am getting at, instead of getting knowles, when we had Gilbert, Plath and K D all for the one position, could we not have got a backup hooker?

And if the young fella is your back up, why are you not using him? And why are you continuing with the same strategy that had seen us losing?

What will be interesting is if JMK misses time, do we go back to plath, that saw us struggle, rather then use the young 9 we have? I would question our selection mindset in we went back to the samething expecting different results.

JMK is a good hooker but isn't built to play a lot of games in the middle.