My two cents for what they are worth from a noted neville nobody nufty
1. Turbo: woefully uninvolved in both games, not smashing it in one off the ruck like last year... not floating around to join the attack on the few times we have footy in decent field position
2. Garrick: played strong = carried the ball out of our own end with strength and toughness
3. Parker: normal Parker - no real errors - and will never give up
4. Harper: As
@Kalvin said offers nothing in attack or defence. Swap for Koula
5. Saab: was ok but needs to take the ball back at the same pace as Garrick, he needs to forget about body preservation - he is a tall big unit - smash it back into them at pace
6. Foran: agree with
@Kalvin - tried hard
7. Dce: terrible - headless chook. Again proves DCE is not a game manager and you cannot put the team on his back. He is only a super quality half and he can be super quality when his forwards are dominating. If they struggle - he struggles badly. This is how he has always been and always will be. So no real suprises at the moment
8. Tapau: was one of the few last week who hads a go. Terrible last night especially in the first half. Never looked like bending the line
9. Crocker: an honest toiler - very good defender, actually took a few scoots last night and made yards but really out of his depth at hooker. Slow service, bad service... simply no real idea how to play hooker even two years on
10. Keppie: great defensive effort.... in getting up off the line and putting a shot on. As always found out with his defensive lapses by not covering off inside. Ineffectual in attack... may as well not bother hitting the ball up because he doesn't make a yard on any carry. Again in the first half like Marty... a passenger
11. Guac: played great BUT his defense in the slide pattern and the gap he leaves between he and DCE is plain scary. He also slides too early and doesn't move up first and then slide which is a cardinal sin in a slide defence. Having aid that... probably our best
12. Bully: a zero - contributed nothing and when JWH came on and took a ruck he actually crapped his pants about being one on one with him. In that moment alone it showed he doesn't have the courage to be a quality first grader
13. Jake: gee we are lost without his defence. Attack not fab but again he gritted the teeth and took the tough carries. One of the very few who plays with passion and courage
14. Walker: played great - tried his heart out - one of the few attacking sparks, tried to lift the defence. Not perfect but again one of our best
15. Lawton: Ok - nothing great but was ok
16. Paseka: What do you say... error ridden yet can make some damaging runs. He and the Big O were the only forwards to punch hiles in the Roosters and Paseka made some real quality yards. Can also put on some quality hits but yes too many errors and is he ever going to realise the enormous potential????
17. Davey: again what do you say.... I keep harping on this... this guy give his all every game, every minute of every game. Is he as talented as the Big O or even Bullemore - no way. Is he fast... no way. Does he have great ball skills... no way. Will he trample defenders... no way. What you will get out of him is heart, courage and a die in the trenches mentality. We need another 15 Davey's out there (Jake is Davey super plus obviously). I would rather lose 10 nil or 12 - 4 in a tough grind it out loss than to watch a team of mainly no efforters run around.
So where to from here.... what changes? Swap Koula for Harper, Swap Croker for Lawton (only have one utility on the bench), get Davey into the backrow for workrate and effort, swap Paseka for Marty, Aloiai in as the other prop when he is available, Schu to 5/8, Foran to half to game manage - last two suggestions wont happen but what I would do. Reserves of Marty, Keppie, Bullemor/Sipley, Walker. As I said I am like everyone on here - a nufty and I have no idea just my review and thoughts of player performance and what we need.
