After Monday's game it is clear that poor performance is now simply accepted between our players and the coach. I refer to our marker defence or lack of it. We always appear to have one marker laying in the ruck. I am not sure if this is due to fatigue or the team simply accepts this or is it just the attitude that after a tackle my job is done. The clear stupid penalties that we were guilty of were simply accepted by the rest of the team. The captain appears to never lay down the law about team discipline, its just accepted. Poor reads in defence is just accepted, and we all stand behind the post and pat the guilty player on the head, is this acceptance or attitude. I understand we have some cap restrictions, but please if you listed to play on the wing and you defend in the centre and are guilty of several misreads, when does the message go out to tell the individual to stay on the wing. Taka injured one of our own players due to running out of the line, not controlling his aggression, again this seems to be accepted as it is constantly happening. Wingers coming in and tries being scored on the outside is accepted. Please if anyone can get a message to BA, ask him to review our marker defence, and communication between the markers.
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FMD What! are you a coach and privy to the discussions between the coach and players?
So you think they are all accepted and forgotten about?
The poor performance was because we have reserve grade halves running our FG team and we were up against a serious contender for the title.
Accept it? Well what else do we do, are you expecting the coach to turn Kelly into a JT?
You do realise that in every game 1 team has to lose and given our current team, blind freddy could see it was 99.9% going to be us. What the fk are you expecting the coach to do? Why dont you tell Peats or Mau to their face that you dont like their attitude.
I just dont understand the unrealistic expectations some of our 'supporters' have.
Think Paul was talking about defence, you seem to be talking about attack - we have none with the halves we have - but our team should still be able to tackle!