Cohesion will come for Reds: Graham

Johnny you're the type of sucker they rely on to pay their salaries.

Saia is a 'casual fan favourite'. I've been calling out his bs for years, starting with his height which is overstated by 10cm. His tackling style is the 'grass cutter', acceptable for a half back but not for a hooker.

About time someone mention this. I think Frisbee has been great at times but he was atrocious in this match. I'm not sure if he had a big head knock or something but he was so slow to the breakdown which has hardly ever well cleaned out or at least protected. His passing was very slow and directionless. I thought McIntyre did well with what he had. I didn't think the Reds backs were that bad their forwards were just disappointing. They need Horwill and Higginbotham back in the team stat.

If he beats the FARCE and the RABBLE in the next two games, he will be re-signed for a further year..hahaha

The reds should get players from Fiji or Samoa as they are not producing any of their own from their beep test academies

Reece Hodge is actually a natural fly half, not a winger, never played on the song for Manly, only inside backs & occasionally fullback.

Cohesion sounds real good , he cant be far away as hes been spoken of a lot.

I would ask the coach after the match what the gameplay was and the counter to any injuries that may occur the Reds looked like headless chooks going through the motions how much longer before the coach is sacked for impersonating a coach

I like Shatz; he does everything pretty well. There is no one else anywhere near as good at #8 in the Reds squad and the scrum is in great shape. The lineout will continue to be good while Simmo runs it. If things are to be fixed the talent must be found in the squad. Test centre Ant F should be starting instead of Tofu. Junior Laloifi was the top try scorer in the NRC and he was close to the best break-maker in the NRC. Junion will score tries and he has a good combination with KH. McIntyre does not stand out in club games.- I watched him last year. Jake seems to decide what to do before the halfback passes the ball to him. He does not draw any defenders. His only three options are: Pass (most of the time) to the senior players outside; run up and get smashed; ror do a crappy inaccurate kick. He scored a nice try because of the great work of the forwards and the opposition was shocked he did not pass to Kerevi. Greene is a much better ball runner and his passing game is probably on par. Goromaru better start doing the out of hand kicking.

I guess that's why the Wallaby captain is coming back.

Classic fair weather friend. Move to Canberra.

And you'd know of course.

So if Thomson (former All Black) and Hanson (Wallaby) aren't "world class" my whole point can be completely dismissed and we can forget about the other losses of O'Connor, Genia, Cooper, Horwill, Slipper, Douglas and Gill?? We played them at their ground. NSW are on the slide. We are on the way up. You can put the boot into us as much as you like but I'd be more concerned if I was a NSW fan. You'll never win a title when 7 men can own your scrum. Is that when they were thinking about the Brumbies, when they were being shoved around. Should have been a penalty try.

Do you understand that you are only strengthening my point by saying that it is more hurtful to the Reds to lose Thomson than if NSW lost Dennis?

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Let me quote your response to the article: "Yes, let’s go into the first game without a backup plan if our 12 goes down injured, that sounds like an excellent idea." How do you know that he had no back-up plan?

Let me quote from the article you must not have read: Graham felt the injury to Taefu and the consequent backline reshuffle affected the Reds’ cohesion. “You can see there just the lack of combination,” Graham said. Now, guess what training is for? If you guessed building combinations, give yourself a gold star. I respect that losing guys is not ideal and is bound to hurt a little, but how they could have only one workable combination is beyond me.

actually he got hit illegally by skelton, in a few plays before the runaway try was scored down the right flank. it was amazing that both the ref and touchie did not see that hit from the side of the ruck inside nsw territory , considering the size of skelton :) he did well to stay on after getting flattened ; where was the tmo who usually jumps in about foulplay???

To describe Thomson and Hanson who are good super rugby players, as world class is gilding the lily somewhat. Richard Graham is lucky the Tahs started thinking about the Brumbies match after the first 25 minutes.

I sat and watched the Tahs Reds game, occasionally yelling at the TV telling MacIntire to stand up flatter. The forward set piece was great but the ruck was no so good. But the real fault was MacIntire standing soo deep, even from set play not any Red ran an inside ball or a scissor move, Frisby passed to MacIntire and he just shovelled it on and the centre got tackled well behind the gain line every time. The Tahs made more ground in defence than attack. I was not impressed by the Red outside backs at all, Kerevi tried hard to crash ball but he was meet well behind the gain line all the time. I have to say I would give MacIntire half a game next week and then give Green the other half and pick one of the two that played better and stick with him. Hunt is not the answer at FH and I have my doubts that he is the answer in the long term at all in any position, the same is said for CFS who does not impress and has not for all the time and chances that he has had. The Reds had no real game plan and no idea what the word variation meant. They were getting thumped with the way that they were playing and still they persisted right throughout the entire game. If it's not working why keep doing the same thing???? A good club coach could coach this side to a better performance.