Can't Buy A Win

If you follow the NRL, then you’d know that this seasons comp is not the best ever, but it certainly is the weirdest.  So many teams in the top half of the competition are on big losing streaks and if you read the press, nearly all of the Top 8 are going to not make it.  My team, the Dragons are on a 5 game losing streak.  The Broncos 6, the Sharks 7 and this is coupled by winning streaks of Melbourne, Canterbury and Parramatta.

Normally the Top 8 teams will tic-tac wins and the comp will be fairly even, however at the moment outside of the 3 winning streak teams, nobody can buy a win.  I suspect that at some stage one of these teams needs to break their duck egg and all will be well again.

So how can the Dragons do it?  Well for starters they can tell their forwards to stop off loading in their own 20m area, particularly Ashton Sims and his penchant for throwing flick passes!  Saints play a very lateral game, but if they fail to hold the advantage line, well then you’re losing ground every ruck when you throw desperate passes.  When we went forward from dummy half, they looked OK.  Bailey and Ryles made plenty of metres when they decided to tuck the ball under the arm and go forward, but that really was only 1 hit up in 3.

Some players seem to go missing for long periods of time too… Isemonger, Creagh and Young?  Did they play?  Why was Greenshields playing second row in the 2^nd half?  The guy weighs 70kgs wringing wet.

Any way, rant off… normal transmission resumes tomorrow.