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  Joshuatheeel August 19, 2016 at 11:47am

  didn't our small pack beat the dogs monster pack twice this year ???
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  Joshuatheeel August 19, 2016 at 11:49am

  Oh yeah forgot to mention, the same small pack that also embarrassed the raiders monster too!!
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    ParraTime > Joshuatheeel August 19, 2016 at 11:57am

    Also gave it to the Cowboys pack
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  Rise of an empire August 19, 2016 at 12:29pm

  I thought Hunt turned their big forwads around a lot with a few well placed long kicks. That sure does the job.
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  Wayne August 19, 2016 at 12:46pm

  Offloading in footy isn't an easy task. It mainly about timing and positioning yourself in a tackle to give you the opportunity to do it. It's definitely something our forwards need to work on.
  
  Tim Mannah is a good example were he rairly gets into a position to offload. His main objective is to push hard in the tackle (driving forward) and to get a quick play the ball. Most if not all our forwards play this way. Although this can also be a good thing for the team. I do believe you need 1 or 2 players that can create opportunities to offload. It creates doubt in the opposition and also makes them work harder around the ball to cut off the offload.
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  Nitram August 19, 2016 at 12:50pm

  You also need to be able to take a kick to the head to fire up your team mates.
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  Poupou Escobar August 19, 2016 at 1:12pm

  Sometimes a quick play-the-ball is better than an offload because it forces the defenders to backpedal. For this reason offloads are at their most effective when the defenders are either rushing back into position before the tackle is completed, or if they're already rooted and not getting up in the first place. But if the defence is aggressive and working hard, they will stay up until the attacker is on the ground. That way his offload will just lead to his team mates being under pressure.
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  Alan Hunt August 19, 2016 at 1:25pm

  The Dogs are an average team, them being in the top 4 shows how average the competition has become.
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  colin hussey August 19, 2016 at 2:12pm

  Watching most of the game last night, the defence of the horses was tops, in fact it won them the game, especially with the way they were able to in essence demoralise the pups with. Watching Hunt last night & his quick thinking led to at least 2 tries the one he scored of his own rebounded kick, which no doubt was intentional, he also pounced on a ball dropped in a tackle by one of the Morris players, Hunt seemed in another class to the dogs halves.

  Klemmer is abject rubbish his skip & hop approaching the defence weakens his run, nothing like his old style of pushing forward with his leg power.  The horses forwards have top leg power & Blair in particular continues to push forward he seems determined to not go down, Parker the same, even old Sammy is huge in his runs, likewise with the way each of them turn in the tackle & always looking to get the ball away.

  The way they also get off the player fast is great but notice that there's also one that stays with the tackled player just long enough to ensure the others get back into the defensive line.  Will be interesting watching them play Canberra with their big forwards.
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  BE STONE COLD August 19, 2016 at 3:07pm

  Lol... Dogs beat Broncos round 16 by 40-14, Parra beat Dogs twice this year

  .... I think our small pack showed a Blueprint of how to beat a Big pack first.