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The Wests Tigers couldn t get the win against the Titans but it was through no lack of effort from their five-eighth Adam Doueihi, who registered his best NRL Fantasy score of 103 with a try and two try assists to go with five busts and a stack of run and kick metres.
Tom Trbojevic finished with an even 100 as his remarkable run continued on the back of two tries, four try assists and eight busts.
Nathan Cleary was back to his high-scoring ways, barely raising a sweat in cranking out 88 for the second-top score of the week. Jason Taumalolo was also back to his best, almost reaching his very high break-even with a powerful 84 against Brisbane.
When it comes to the subtle art of captaincy in the NRL, is it a job best left to one man or is the increasingly popular leadership group the way to go?
In recent times we have seen the Roosters enjoy premiership success with Jake Friend and Boyd Cordner as co-captains while Cameron Smith did just fine on his own at Melbourne and took them to premierships in 2012, 2017 and 2020.
Every coach in the NRL will have their own preference and they get the final word on who has the (c) next to their name and who calls the shots out on the field for their team.
O Brien happy with Knights effort but spine needs to lift
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Newcastle coach Adam O Brien says if his team scrambled like they did in a 24-6 loss to Penrith on Thursday night every week they d have a couple more wins in the bank by now.
O Brien was pleased with his team s defensive effort overall but frustrated a Penrith scrum play they had practised defending all week still led to points, while he also lamented some poor fifth-tackle options that he said the whole spine needs to work together to improve on. I thought at half-time they d done a really, really good job, O Brien said of his team.
Crawley: Dislike for Latrell taints flawed judiciary call Just because you’re not a Latrell Mitchell fan doesn’t mean you should be celebrating a judiciary system that got his punishment so wrong, says Paul Crawley.
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Subscriber only It was interesting reading some of the online comments that immediately followed Latrell Mitchell copping four weeks at the judiciary on Tuesday night. What it told me was that a lot of people were mistaking their obvious and often immense dislike for Latrell with the fact the NRL judiciary process got this horribly wrong. There is just no way in the world anyone with an ounce of football intelligence can swallow the fact that the tackle that gave Wests Tigers winger David Nofoaluma a bit of a bloodied mouth (yet did not cause any serious injury) was deserving of a four-match suspension.
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