Everyone was questioning his defence when we needed a replacement for Dylan Brown. But holy crap, Field has really worked on his defence. If anyone has watched Liam Martin the past couple of months, players have struggled to tackle him but Field was absolutely superb in defence tonight. Moses was great in defence as well. However, I would of loved to see him provide something in attack. I know we had no possession but Moses and Field didn't run the ball much.
Waqa still has his horrible defensive reads. Fergo and Blake defend so much better when they slide cause Blake has the pace to cover his outside. But so often tonight, Blake would rush out and catch thin air. If I was the coach, I would tell Fergo and Blake to have a slide first mentality and only rush out if 100% certain they can get their man. Luckily for Blake, Fergo and the rest of the team scrambled really well to ensure no tries came direclty of his defensive errors.
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I like Waqa at times but he does run around like a headless chook in defence. Which is kind of ironic.
Haha 😂 that’s good.
But! But! But! the chooks got a head!!!!
"If I was the coach, I would tell Fergo and Blake to have a slide first mentality and only rush out if 100% certain they can get their man."
Id imagine this is already the advice. I realise Michael Jennings gets this right more often than not but he is a defensive centre. I'd be telling Fergo and Blake to never rush out.
Waqa blake needs to get better ball. When n brown ran that arching run he got Creighton interested he needed to pass it. Give waqa an opportunity to show his worth.
agreed honestly. Blake should just slide with fergo. He has the pace to cover his outside.
Not once were eels under any threat when they both slided, but as soon as Blake rushes out thats when our sramble defence saved us.
It's an easy fix -
Gutho to 6. He's played at 6 or 4 all his junior years. He's a good fullback but the team needs him at 6. You put Gutho at 6, suddenly Blake is running better lines and being defensively better.
Field is a fullback. He played there most of his junior years and it's his favourite position.
Dammit both the Storm and the Dragons have their best attacking player at fullback and Field is a carbon copy of those players.
It's a change that has to made Fathead, the side needs reinvigorating even if it only for a couple of weeks.
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