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Is our structure the problem?

Posted by Wile E. Coyote on August 10, 2014 at 9:47pm

The idea of having our halves wide and Sefa in the middle may be a good structure to use occasionally.

But to use it as a rule and especially at the start I think is a mistake. Most of the time we should have the players with the ability and responsibility to run our attack to be in the middle.

I don't think Sefa should be running our attack and it puts a bias on him to get it out wide to the halves more often than he should. Having our halves out wide restricts their choices once they get the ball.

Not too sure how much of the time when Sefa is on that the halves are wide and he distributes it but we seem to do worse when he starts and also move it wide too much and too early before setting the platform to go wide. Also we often seem to lack leadership from the halves. Just a hunch that this may be the problem.

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Paynted August 10, 2014 at 10:09pm

The main problems from last nights game was too many dropped balls, poor completion rate and the lack of consistent pressure. Against the sharks we had a number of repeat sets and were able to retain more possession.
- Wile E. Coyote > Paynted August 10, 2014 at 10:15pm
  
  Generally, if you keep it simple for longer then you will have less mistakes and more possession. Whenever we got in the oppositions twenty we sent the ball wide on the first few plays. This did not work as we did not set it up by hitting it up the middle first. We lost the ball and the result was no points and no possession and not tiring the opposition.
  
  Whose fault is it that the ball went wide too early, too often: Coach, Sefa, Halves, or the structure?
- Cranky Brad is here!!! > Paynted August 11, 2014 at 12:00am
  
  Agree with paynted you are spot on. Defence was useless as well and they made way to many easy metres. Sandow received the ball more then what Paulo did last night.
- Camo73 > Paynted August 11, 2014 at 7:13am
  
  I re-watches the second half yesterday. Desperate defence from the Raiders, dropped balls and sheer bad luck stopped us putting on another 4 tries. We could have and probably should have won by 30.
SHAKAKA August 10, 2014 at 11:00pm

Sefa has the highest hospital balls in the nrl and for what he brings unstableness & predictability it's a true wonder why we persist.
Prof. Daz August 10, 2014 at 11:10pm

Carrying a passenger at 5/8 doesn't help. Is there a stat for halves who get caught with the ball? If so, Norman would lead it.
Davo 'RIP feet for hands Toutai' August 11, 2014 at 8:26am

Our back line movement where hayne comes around the back and gets the ball needs more variation it's the same everytime. The better sides will find it too easy to defend against. We need different runners and when hayne doesn't get the ball he needs to draw defenders in and have Hoppa or Pauli for example receive the ball with a bit of room to move. Sack sefa
- Wile E. Coyote > Davo 'RIP feet for hands Toutai' August 11, 2014 at 8:40am
  
  If Sefa goes who will be our utility?
  Could be an excuse to introduce Matterson to the bench when he is ready
Davo 'RIP feet for hands Toutai' August 11, 2014 at 8:47am

Coyote I think Kenny Edwards or try someone new I just have never thought that sefa brings enough to the table. I always remember lock was a position where you were there not just as a distributor but more so as a defender that makes a lot of tackles per game. I would like to know sefas tackle stats but he should be close to the top week in week out. He should be doing more in defense than our props that should be worrying more about making yards.
shane August 11, 2014 at 9:52am

Sefa slows the play down with his passes which are easy to read. When he takes over he is predictable and his short passes are always forward, other passes can end up any where as seen with passes to Sandow too high or low going to ground and slowing the structured play and running the real skilled players out of room. Does not bring anything to the table that warrants a place in the team.