EELS BACKLINE

I just saw a replay of Will Smith's try on Thursday where he beat a handful of players to score. The main thing that stood out for me was how menacing and almost Melbourne like our backline looked on that play because our backs were standing very deep. We have guys like Taka, Jennings etc with a good step and show and go and they do their thing better with a bit of space in front of them. In my opinion our backs need to stand deeeeeep, what do you guys reckon?

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  • Just make Matagi take a twenty metre run up every time he takes a hit up.not sure who it was that tried to stop him on Thursday but it hurt him.
  • Yeah our backline attack looked more dangerous and harder to handle when they ran from a deeper starting point.

    It should be like that every time we're attacking inside the red zone. If we don't have everyone on their toes running in numbers, we'll just be easy meat for the defenders. Running in numbers AT SPEED puts the defenders in 2 minds about who they're going to commit themselves to in order to try & break down our attacking raid.

    We've gotta make their defenders clueless and basically have to take a guess as to wether player X is gonna try to bust through the line himself to score or wether this & that player are only decoy runners, and also have to worry about a grubber into the in-goal for a try/repeat set, or even a cutout pass to the winger.

    This can only be achieved by having multiple players running at speed and in perfect formation. I just hope that what we saw the other night wasn't the limit to what our attack can produce and that it was just the beginning of even better attacking plays to come on our way to shell shocking the Melbourne storm or whoever our unlucky opponent may be in the 2017 NRL Premiership decider ;))
  • we played the titans who stink relax, theyre getting flogged every week,we got mauled by knights........
    • Always something to complain about

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