Our Players are too small

heraldsun1 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:55 pm

Our team must be the smallest in the competition and we are going to get absolutely monstered by some teams this year.

Surely we should have been doing some weights or drafting in some big guys during the off season.

Whenever our team runs out onto the field it's like boys against men!

Your thoughts?

Storm Spirit · Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:59 pm

heraldsun1 wrote:Our team must be the smallest in the competition and we are going to get absolutely monstered by some teams this year.

Surely we should have been doing some weights or drafting in some big guys during the off season.

Whenever our team runs out onto the field it's like boys against men!

Your thoughts?

Yes....that HUGE Manly pack made a mess of the Storm.

We were lucky to only lose 6 - 18.

Ohh...wait...what's that you say......Storm actually won 18 - 6.

OMG...WTF....how could we possibly win with such a small forward pack.

Bourbon Rat · Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:02 pm

Anyone else smell that ? O THERE YOU ARE HS1

absentee · Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:10 pm

0/10.

I'd like to see someone monster Sika Manu.

heraldsun1 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:25 pm

Oh come on guys that's not fair! I am trying to have some sensible discussion on here.

storming · Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:51 pm

your kidding! sensible? we aren't the biggest team out there but we dont have to be to win, and we aren't the smallest either, our whole pack cept hinchy n cam are 105kg+ right? and most of our backs are around the 100kg mark, how big do you want them?

Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:40 pm

heraldsun1 wrote:Oh come on guys that's not fair! I am trying to have some sensible discussion on here.

You? Sensible discussion?

That would be a first. Stop being a troll or I will set the billy goat onto you.
Consider this a formal warning.

nacho · Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:48 pm

in comparison to an ape tony williams, yes we are small.

however, talent wise and ability they are through the roof, duffie (iirc) 1 on 1 with tony williams and held him up. size aint everything brother

stormsally · Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:03 am

I'd hate to agree with our pet troll (are we getting the ignore button back?), but I thought the same. Has Adam Blair lost weight? He looked skinny!!!

Having said that I don't really like the big for big sake players. Skill is better than size, but some of those big blokes seemed to run through us.

CooperCronk · Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:54 am

I've been a member since Day 1 and from memory we have always had smaller players compared to most other teams. It hasn't hurt us in the past.

Crooner · Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:35 am

I almost agree with the are we too small.
But mine is more a, I believe what we will lake this year is the Big prop that bends the line and has a fast play of the ball.
We seamed to have a lot of forwards that are looking for offloads on every hit up.
And How The Hell is Proctor a starting forward.....(P.S I have never really been a fan of his)....Bench player at best IMO

onlooker · Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:11 pm

heraldsun1 wrote:Our team must be the smallest in the competition and we are going to get absolutely monstered by some teams this year.

Surely we should have been doing some weights or drafting in some big guys during the off season.

Whenever our team runs out onto the field it's like boys against men!

Your thoughts?

There is no drafting in the NRL, AFL boy.

steaming stormer · Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:29 pm

Crooner wrote:I almost agree with the are we too small.
But mine is more a, I believe what we will lake this year is the Big prop that bends the line and has a fast play of the ball.
We seamed to have a lot of forwards that are looking for offloads on every hit up.
And How The Hell is Proctor a starting forward.....(P.S I have never really been a fan of his)....Bench player at best IMO

I thought Sat night was Proctors best game for us just about.

As for size, I think we are maybe one big prop short - but if John Kite gets right, he'll fix that for us IMO

stormy · Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:21 pm

I would rather our forwards to be leaner faster fitter than the lard arses that play for manly.I couldn`t believe how fat and slow georgie rose looked on Saturday night. it took almost a week for him to get off our player after he tackled him.

Go Storm · Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:40 pm

CooperCronk wrote:I've been a member since Day 1 and from memory we have always had smaller players compared to most other teams. It hasn't hurt us in the past.

Spot on. This has always been the case. I remember thinking how will we ever contain that bulldog's pack, or Bronco's pack? And yet we did.

It's been well publicised this off season just how much harder the Storm's pre-season is compared to other sides. We are fitter and faster, and stronger!! Our weights sessions are designed around strength, not body building.

As already mentioned, who wants fatty's like George Rose in your team. He looked more of a disgrace this year than last year.

Some of our younger and leaner blokes will probably bulk up a little as the season progresses and the long runs/cardio sessions decrease.

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Our Players are too small