Interesing article in the SMH, which has a bit of cross-over with the article I posted earlier tonight. However, also interesting stuff about Arthur's take on a couple of our players which I thought it would be worth focusing on as a separate blog.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/jarryd-hayne-a-priority-for-new-parramatta-eels-coach-brad-arthur-20131016-2vlgf.html#ixzz2htriVga6
Arthur’s first task will be igniting Hayne back to his best form. Hayne was injured when Arthur won two games in his six game stint as caretaker Eels coach last year. Arthur said he hadn’t locked Hayne into a position. ‘‘I have to sit down with Jarryd and find out what he needs from me to play his best footy and what I need from him,’’ Arthur said. ‘‘We’ll come up with a plan for what’s best for the team and for him. He is a talented footballer and he’ll have a great season. I’ll make sure of it.’’
Arthur has served a long apprenticeship including stints as an assistant to Craig Bellamy, Stephen Kearney and more recently credited for instilling steel into Geoff Toovey’s forwards at Manly. He played lower grades at the Eels and lives in the Parramatta district. ‘‘We aren’t going to look like Manly or Melbourne, we are going to look like Parramatta and play the way I want,’’ he said. ‘‘The players are there because they are good footballers. I just need to harness the talent in the right direction.’’
The lifelong Eels fan plans to talk to wayward halfback Chris Sandow in a bid to revive his career. ‘‘I need to sit down and find out what he wants to get out of the rest of his career and find out what he wants to do,’’ Arthur said.
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One thing i do like about BA, is that he talks with authority, lets hope this translates to confidence to the guys on the park.
I'll save you from sitting down with them, Brad. Firstly, you know you have to get Jarryd into the halves and you should partner him up with Corey Norman. Imagine that Brad. Not a single player in your backline under 185cm. Think about the defensive unit you would be able to build around that. At this stage, we have to accept that if we go for traditional halves, our halves combination is one of the bottom four in the competition. So do something different. Start with an impenetrable defence and then trust that the natural talent in your backline is going to give you enough to work with to score without a classic playmaker.
Speaking of playmakers, you balance that up with Sandow as your 14. Your big halves are struggling a little to penetrate? No problems throw Sandow into the halves. That will cause the opposition to have to totally alter their defensive structure. Maybe you partner him up with the Hayne and sub Norman, or perhaps you partner him with Norman and move Hayne back to one. Suddenly your rival coaches have no idea what kind of defensive plan to come up with, because you have three totally different looking halves combination. Otherwsie, Sandow goes into nine to replace Peats and gives you a threat danger out of dummy half. We're now up to four different attacking spines that you can deploy depending on the defence your up against or the flow of the game. If you're in front, don't bother with Chris at all. Suddenly Sandow is no longer a defensive liability because opposition defences have no idea when or even if he'll pop up and they can't target him.
BOOM! Suddenly, you've taken the club's weakest area of its roster and you've turned into a dynamic, shape-shifting monster that all opposition teams will struggle to defend against it, because it's so different to the highly structured, predictable nature of most NRL football side.
That one's for free, BA.
:) read this BA
The problem is it also means the playing group has to learn several different defensive formations depending on what 'shape' for a lack of a better term is in play at the time. Whilst it would be difficult to coach against it would be almost impossible to coach four different defensive structures into a team that's struggled to learn one.
I dont know about this Phil, I like the idea but I dont think we have the right blokes, you need someone to control and drive the team around the park and I think Corey and Jarryd are too similar, they have to complement each other.
I do agree with the idea about Sandow with short stints at the back end of each half he could be like PJ or Denis Moran (for any old enough to remember him), both came on and tore teams apart at the back end of each half and that way he cant get targeted in defense.
Never been much of a conspiracy theorist but what I like about this spiel from Arthur is that he's talking about Hayne as being primary in the club's plans moving forward, all the while, the Dogs fans on their fan sites are busily speculating who their "major" signing announcement at Friday's scheduled press conference could possibly be.
Names regularly mentioned: James O'Connor, Blake Ferguson and Jarryd Hayne.
Whilst I believe Hayne has no 'get-out' clause in his contract and would likely have to sit out the 2015 season if his management conjured a deal with the cheating Dogs, if Hayne did have cold feet (and who can blame him after the management circus that the club has had to endure over the last few years), it's good to see BA talking about him as central to the clubs plans!
BM, Hayne already came out and said he's staying at Parra, he has no interest of going elsewhere and doesn't want to pl;ay against the Eels. Ferguson at the dogs? Where will they put him? They already got a centres. O'Conner, no he's stay at ARU because Ewan McKenzie will make sure that O"Conner's is playing good footy. The Bullfrogs gonna have to bring some young dude up from reserves.
Hayne is more than happy with this and he came out on tv saying it was huge for the club and that he was very happy with the appointment
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