Early Attack:
Our attack to start games is non existent. We got no ball player in the middle to start the game since Walker is on the bench and Hopgood ability in that department is gone backwards. We refuse to build pressure as well. We just go for the all of nothing play which doesn't come off. To start the game we gave away three 20m restarts. Moses needed to demand the ball and step up there. Really really poor. Hopefully JDB starting at lock next year helps with the link play. Need to work on attack structure anyway.
Effort:
First game in a long time I questioned some of the desire in the players. Iongi watching Duncan go all out for the ball on the floor was poor. Someone who has put effort on effort all year. I hope and believe that the effort issue is a one of game in our rebuilding year. Just got complacent and expected the win.
Support play:
How many linebreaks with no support play. Big area for Iongi to improve. Really wish Iongi had a bit better top speed. His footwork and acceleration is good. But he lacks the top speed to be a support player in time.
Tuilagi:
He runs great lines and has a great offload. But go watch how much Souths exposed Tuilagi efforts and lateral movement. He could not keep up with Souths shifting the ball that eels had to keep back pedalling to conceed meters. Moses could not slide as Tuilagi would take forever to get to his man. Williams and Kautoga have to be our edges next year. Just use Guymer as the back up option as he is defensively more sound than Tuilagi even if his attack isnt much.
Doorey:
He is a clear depth option. Defensively he struggles. He only has minimal good games in him. He had a couple good games in him earlier but recently he has lost his form again. Cannot be in the best 17.
Attacking Kicks:
Our attacking kicks are shit. Lomax ability in the air has disappeared. Can't catch anything anymore. Moses accuracy for those kicks were horrible as well. He needs to land in on the goal line not 5m inside the field.
Papalii:
He has no idea what he is doing as a 6. I do not think a pre-season there will change it much. His instincts are so much like a fullback. He doesnt see the game as a 6. He needs to be the back up fullback next year and thats it. Him at 6 essentially eliminates our left side attack. Fox got thrown so many hospital passes.
Red ball attack:
Papalii contributes to this issue as he is not a 6. He does not straighten the attack up at all on shape. On shape he runs like he is sweeping out the back like a fullback even though he is playing 6.
Moses does not touch the ball enough in attack. He needs to control the team. But right now we look clueless and looking for Walker to call the shots. Moses is the halfback. He needs to set our attack up better. He organises a one out settler every second tackle which is putrid. Get players going running under lines cutting back in or some short passes going with your backrowers running at the halves to generate quick play the balls instead of these boring settles. We were dominating them in the ruck but we tried going around them with diaboloical shifts. How did Moses to step up at the start of the game and allow those 20m restarts pissed me off.
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Hahah yes. Can we include injuries too?
I cant remember the last time I was confident waiting on a conversion. Maybe 2001?
You forgot our left centre not giving JAC quality ball whether that be Russell or Brown but we need to buy a left centre for next year.
And yeh Papalii is no 5/8. Hopefully we end up beating other clubs for that English 6
Tactically we were off tonight we should have been pouring through the middle and went searching for contact Tuilagi Paulo and Hopgood and even Williams a bit wider we're making yards at will.Yet here we are trying to pass round these guys it's frustrating we prefer to look good and lose than win ugly.Sometimes you've got to take what teams give you we are so locked in at trying to do onething we are missing parts of the game that count the most.
Errors have been with this team all year enoughs been said but we continue to make them.
We can't have Moses parked up on one side it makes no sense.
I'd move Brown back to 6 for the rest of the year.
Just wish Iongi finished those half chances, conversation about the game would be different for sure. Some good lead up play and then just short
Desperate defense and high completion would have done the same where was it from us.Finishing is all part of execution I think as a team we could just roll them and we took soft options.Simple game.Get the simple things right you win when is our team going to understand this and until it does there's still plenty of pain to come.
Roosters and Warriors away good luck with that.Heaven forbid if the Titans win a couple of games spoon bowl again against Newcastle in the last round potentially.All because of self inflicted wounding.
Our attack hasn't looked right to me in over a month, looks a bit choppy, we are in every game till the death but it's just not flowing. More work to be done but for the most part our effort levels are there but it must be frustrating building pressure and not turning it into points. Plenty to work on but we aren't getting 50 put on us weekly so it's not all doom and gloom
It probably also doesn't help that Moses is only now getting a string of games together and Iongi was out for a portion of that too. Then a new 6, first time that Moses played with Papali'i at 6.
Ryles did say he's focused on building combinations for next year, I'm not so sure his main priority is trying to win the games at all costs. Or brown would be the 6 for sure and he'd be pushing for wins. Hes experimenting a lot with different looks and it just isn't geling completely yet. I'm not to down on the group but can't really remember the last time we got blown off the park by a team so that's a good sign considering the start to the season we had
Warriors look awful at the moment, great time to play them. Roosters is the tough one.
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