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Unless GM's has had both his legs broken then the coach has lost me as anyone that has a ****ing clue. Go and get ****ed basically Holbrook.
Our finals are over.
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Unless GM's has had both his legs broken then the coach has lost me as anyone that has a ****ing clue. Go and get ****ed basically Holbrook.
Our finals are over.
Sami in for Marzhew. If he’s not injured then You are a dead**** Holbrook
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Also remember when everyone was like nah the are just resting Sexton. Bull-**** this is a coach who knows exactly Jack and **** in our most important game
No Sexton No Marzhew and ****ing Sami. FMD we obviously don't want to make finals, what a joke of a team, over this ****
This team selection smells of the squad being seriously fractured in unity
What message does it send? What did Marzhew do to get dropped? He didn’t drop BK after his selfishness lost us the game against the storm mid year. Sexton does nothing wrong but we drop one game, bring in Foges who did absolutely zero and he gets to play again. I’m sorry Holbrook has lost me this year, his selections are not in line with what is happening on the field. What a disappointment
Marzhew has to be injured, there's no other explanation for it, surely
I wonder if it’s due to Marzhew comments about the poor halves play against the storm?
Absolutely disgusted and pissed off at that team list. Let’s drop our best winger (unless he possibly got injured at training or something?) and name Peachey the slob (who we aren’t re-signing) at five eighth instead of Sexton (who we’ve signed for 3+ years as our long term half). Holbrook should be ashamed of himself
I would love to know why Greg was dropped. He is our most damaging ball runner imo (fifita is too few and far between).
Why play a new halves pairing when we have 2 must win games? Peachey has barely played 6 all year not to mention he has next to no kicking game. If he was going to do anything play sexton at half and fogarty at 5'8.
Why is holbrook making these decisions? What is going on behind the scenes we don't know about?
Perhaps the sky isn't falling, petals. Mind games are not unheard of amongst NRL coaches. Why not screw with the knights heads?? Instead of pissing before our water comes...lets wait until it's one hour before kick off.
The Marzhew one is just bizarre. He just re-signed so clearly he must be happy here. And now suddenly dropped? Doesn't make any sense. Only thing I can think of is him coming out and saying something that contradicts captain/coach who didn't like it, or he's genuinely injured at training or something.
Love the teamlist!! Glad to see Marzhew finally dropped, was getting pretty sick of his massive runs and huge yardage game in game out!.
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On a serious note, Tyrone Peachey at 6 either lodges himself squarely in the Gold Coast Titans HoF or produces a horrendous performance that torpedoes our top 8 hopes, no inbetween, Very ballsy from Holbrook.
Dropping Greg is unforgivable in my eyes. He is everything this football team should stand for. On what planet can you present to your players on a Tuesday morning and somehow justify it. The guy has busted his ass off and put his body on the line multiple times. Not only has he been consistent in his strong areas (meters gained + tackle-breaks) but you can also see he has delicately worked on his craft in defending and managing the high ball. I saw someone mention Toby Sexton and the same applies to him. How could you literally look that young bloke in the eye and tell him that you're going to overlook him for a one-dimensional halfback who leaks points on his edge like a sieve. He did everything asked of him and it still wasn't good enough for a coach who must clearly select on reputation. A reputation of mediocrity.
The GC Titans Facebook page features a headline in their latest post "Your Round 24 team" with a big picture of Sami's mug followed by a sentence which reads "Experience called upon for must-win game against Newcastle". WHAT, HAHAHA.
Marzhew ain’t injured. Hang you ****ing head Holbrook after the numerous players who should have been dropped all year you drop one of our consistently best players for Phillip runs sideways, can’t tackle, can’t stay on his wing, gives an overlap every defensive play Sami?!? Two words ****ing Moron
Peachy in for Taylor is the most important thing and this outweighs any short comings Sami might present. I’d say Hurricane wants to see a more open attack and has gone for speed and more back up potential (Not putty Marz down but he is very regimented in his play).
Also I wouldn’t doubt Sexton comes in for Clark and possibly could start.
Upwards and onwards I say and we should be pretty much unbeatable now that we have 13 players on field (yep I recon we’ve been playing with 12).
Come on boys you got this
We're ****ed
Wow, Holbrook has gone backwards in my eyes after this selection.
Marzhew has been one of our better players in the past few weeks so that just completely baffles me. I thought that finally with him and Thompson, at least our wingers were set. Picking Sami over Marzhew is beyond words unless he is injured.
Holbrook has taken 21 rounds to work out that all of our halves combinations he has tried have failed and has changed at this late stage. Personally I think it's worth a try but surely he should have done this weeks ago.
His head is well and truly on the block with these selections, but that what he is paid to do. He can bask in a win if we get one, but he'll have plenty to answer for if it fails.
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Interesting comment from you mate. You usually give the benefit of the doubt to most things about the team so your brief comment surprises me.
Taylor out I can't take the smile of my face.
Sami in doesn't worry me either JB I'm not fixated with Marz so yes I'm looking forward to the game and I hope Peachy absolutely kills it.
Holbrook has shown time and again that he pick players on reputations and not performance. No wonder we have not improved as a side this year
Rumours going around that Marzhew was injured at training
Surely. I’m not “fixated” on Marzhew but Sami is not starting caliber in today’s NRL but our backs stocks are low at the moment. If he’s the best we got after Greg so be it but no amount of optimism tells me he’s better than Greg. He’s shown zero every chance he has had all year
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Also absolute yes to the peach. He’s earned a crack
Yeah it was a bit knee jerky by my standards. Peachey in for Ash I'm not too fussed on, although like you say would've preferred it earlier so we aren't experimenting in a potentially season ending game.
Marzhew being dropped has (rightfully) caused probably the most outrage I've ever seen from Titans supporters across all platforms. Just next level. Would not like to be running the Titans social media pages after posting that team list. Would be deleting instagram if I was Phil Sami as well.
Nothing much in it, just frustration at seeing former Queensland Origin winger Phil Sami back in the side at the expense of one of our best performers. Having new combinations on both sides of the field just spells disaster, and if Sami's decision making is responsible for shutting down their left edge with Ponga playing outside to Best & Tuala, we're in for a long night.
I'm very low on confidence for Thursday night. Gonna need a Fifita and/or JC special to get us the W I think.
I really hope Peachey doesn't serve up his usual crud when he plays at 5/8. He is such a liability and it could spell real disaster for us.
On GM, I hope it is injury that has kept him out, he has been very good. I was hopeful until the team was named.
Ahh wells it’s all on Holbrook now. Knights will be sending all the traffic to his side so let’s hope Sami is ready. We now lose a big strong back to run the ball out of trouble so Sami better be ready to roll the sleeves up and not run sideways. Let’s hope al that “experience” pays off.
At least Ash is gone and peach won’t die wondering
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Blind Freddy can see this is a dumb **** move, Holbrook trying to be the smartest bloke in the room again. Honestly sends a poor message that in Justin’s team your performance means sweet FA