Souths once agains scored two tries this weekend with a grubber behind the line to a centre screaming through and Warriors did it to us as well. With the up-and-in defences that most teams use right now, it seems to be just about the number one play in the game. And if you get it right, the worst result that comes from it is a drop-out and more pressure.
Yet, we so seldom see this play from the Eels? Chris Sandow should be taylor made for this because defences are more worried about his running game, so I wonder why it's something we seldom use and even more seldom getting any success from?
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That's the h0le Haynes departure left. Last year we were being called the most exciting attacking team in the comp. This year, without Hayne, our attack looks no where near as potent. Coincidence??
Parramatta stories sell newspapers and generate website clicks,
Rothfield and others justify their existence by writing Parramatta stories.
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We're not big fans of 5th tackle options - haven't been for years. We seem to prefer the tried and trusted prop n' stop, or the 'get tackled on the 5th', or even the ever reliable hospital short ball to a front rower at the line just as he is about to get smashed leading to a dropped ball. All plays are sourced from the "when you don't know what to do on the last" section of the manual.
If a clear shot at a try is on due to overlap etc - go for it. Otherwise, much prefer the grubber through the line than the lobs to the corners - corner bombing is too much of a lottery, relies on tap backs, generally leads to knock ons and video ref sagas not to mention as soon as a defender catches it, they bolt to the 20 and we are generally far from set defensively.
Occasionally a defender will field a grubber well and get back out of goal but generally it will lead to only a positive for the attacking team - caught in goal + repeat set, fullback spills it + clean up for a try or even defender gets out - ensure a quick defensive line for that set and pin them down forcing a kick inside the 30 - then you come back and do it all again.
Smart footy teams play this way. Too often we are just not a smart footy team.
Our poor starts don't allow us to put in grubbers and build any pressure.
We are knackered from defending the line or so far behind on the board to allow any type of effective kicking or 5th tackle options.
our play the ball and attack is so slow, teams dont feel the need to rush up, there by leaving a gap behind, to grubber the ball into. hence no grubbers
Phil Rothfield is the biggest fuckwit in Australian sports journalism - nay journalism in general.
Whilst referring to himself under the obscenely pompous and out-dated title of 'editor-at-large', his articles are pure speculation and puffery which constantly laud his diseased, bankrupt and insipid Sharks whilst regularly taking aim at our club, our players or the board with a view to disrupt us.
This seems to be a trend at the DT. They know that the only people who buy their shit paper are the simpleton, politically conservative, Alan Jones listening, Footy Show loving dickheads out in the Western Suburbs who will eat up whatever crap they print so the great irony of Rothfield's broken record articles are to sell papers whilst trying to convince people, who otherwise don't give a f*** that the Sharks are even vaguely relevant.
How Josh Massoud and Adrian Proszenko keep getting drip fed commercial-in-confidence material and publishing it before all boxes are ticked is tantamount to committing a crime. The sight of Massoud standing outside the Leagues Club trumpeting Foran's signature only for Toovey and the Manly club to first learn of it on NRL 360 was outrageous.
Such a mischievous act could easily have costed us Foran's signature. Don't forget, the Foran deal doesn't crystallise until after the June deadline and he could so easily have said something along the lines of:
"after so carefully managing my negotiations confidentially so as to respect my current club and not create distractions, to have this information publicised before I could inform my team mates and coach is extremely disappointing and I will now consider whether I want to play for a club that cannot respect the confidentiality and wishes of its players."
Who knows, he still might.
You people on this forum like to bash Paul Kent but I'd take Kent and his thought-out opinions over any of the other hacks any day!
'the only people who buy their shit paper are the simpleton, politically conservative, Alan Jones listening, Footy Show loving dickheads out in the Western Suburbs'.
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