I have read all the blogs about the coach and his record so far and I can't argue that it is not bad, but I have also looked at the games and wonder if the players are exempt from some criticism as well and it's not just our players but players from other teams. We pay these so called professional players mega bucks to run around the footy field and a lot of them don't have other jobs to worry about and even if they do have other jobs their first priority should be rugby. I see so many players running with the ball in one hand or placing the ball down over the try line with one hand, where have the basics gone. Is it not cool to carry the ball in two hands, well I think it's less cool when a player bombs a try because of these stupid antics or gives the opposition great field position because they spill their lollies because they don't hold the ball in two hands, for f**k sake these blokes have been playing for years this game, since they were kids and they can't get the fundamentals right. Yes the coach has a big part in the way a team plays but the players are the ones that are on the field making stupid fundamental errors which put us under pressure and that is what costs us games. Two examples 1: Kristin Inu returns a kick and carries the ball in 1 hand and drops in his own 20, 2: Ben Roberts makes a break, 1 to beat and carries the ball in 1 hand and drops it in the oppositions 20. THESE ACTS LOOSE GAMES
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I think players need to step up to the plate and have a dig and play for each other even if they hate the coach.
He has my support only for a few more rounds before I am bitten on the neck by the anti SK troops and turn into a bloody hungry SK hater.
I'm not professing to be a SK fan HH and I have no 1st hand knowledge of what he has or has not been concentrating on since his arrival to parra but nether the less these are basic schoolboy skills and that is my point, these skills are fundamental and 1st graders should be good enough and experienced enough to not be so stupid to play the game without engaging these basic skills, regardless of who the coach is.
Ben Robert's drop was pathetic. Why a bloke would carry a ball like that I have no idea.
Rarely will a "flat and fast" attack work successfully.
A "flat line" attack is into the D before anything can really happen.
Parra have played "flat" for several years now and can't score points - Proof of argument right there.
Stand deep with decoys in motion - put the D in 2 minds as to where the ball is going to go and voila - try time on most occassions.
Watch the successful teams - this is what they do and when someone makes the wrong decision the ball will often go to a supposed decoy running forward who goes through untouched.
FLAT & FAST is a defensive option - rarely an attacking option.
But yep Muttman - without being able to execute the basics you are screwed
So are you saying all grades were supposed to adhere to this fast and flat style of play, if that was the instructions then obviously some lower grade coaches have not done so, because the lower grade games I have seen this year have not seemed to be this flat and fast style of play as far as I can see.
When we speak about Basics, what really grinds my gears and I see it week in week out from Jarryd Hayne, and he's been guilty of it for the last few years, is his painfully slow play the balls. Whether or not he is trying to milk a penalty for a suspect high shot or whatever, it's a momentum killer. That and our line speed in defence are putting us on the back foor both with the ball in hand and without.
How is it that the player with the ball gets up quicker than our makers? We look slow.
That is an excellent ? HH the guy being tackled should be the last 1 up after the tackle on most occasions as he is usually the one on the ground.
The flat attack started at the storm under chris anderson. But as far as I can see the Storm don't really adhere to it to the letter anymore. In fact the play quite a bit out behind dummy runners with players coming onto the ball form distance.
In any event different players bring different skill sets to the table. For a flat attack to work you really need tough, dynamic hole running backrowers and centres who will receive the ball in traffic or at the line and thrive on it.
Our centres don't like getting ball like that and our second rowers don't really either, with perhaps the exception of Fuifui when he is in the backrow.
You need to adapt to the player you have that is what coaching is all about.
If I was the coach I would be instructing my team to adjust their depth based on what they see in front of them.
I would not be employing the 2nd man play as our key and only attacking weapon.
At the end of the day, we no longer have forwards that can offload the ball. However as a coach, you can more than compensate by improving short passing skills before the line, in particluar our 6,13,11 and 12 positions.
Next... play the game in the right part of the field based on your capabilities. When we go wide we look slow and amateurish. Furthermore, this style of play of hit it up for 4 and send it wide, doesn't play to our stregnths.
Hayne, Sandow and Roberts are great broken field runners..... That's our strength.... Tailor everything you do based on unlocking these 3.
Play in the middle 3rd of the field where our 1,6,7 can capitalise on defences that make small errors.
IMO that is the key to rebuilding our attack.
And one more thing... show some dam flexibility.... I have watched plenty of Chooseday night games from the 90's.
We had Manly playing Sedaris as a running foward/Toovey at hoooker in their own half before switching back to 9 and 7 at the opposition half.
In another game Buderus was moved to 1 (after an injury now doubt).
Point is, stop following what everyone else is doing.. Sandow is our best dummy half runner, get him in there at our end of the field.
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