We miss over 40 tackles a week.
How has it been a problem for so long and BA not fixed it ? This is by far an away our biggest issue as a team and if we're paying the bloke who lives 7 minutes from training to coach us, it should've been fixed long ago. We're not carrying a team of rookies and slight halves missing 12 tackles each a week .. the missed tackles are across the whole squad which indicates something is going wrong with how defense is coached.
WTF is BA doing to fix it ? We missed way too many tackles last year (the GF trip masked it a little ) and are falling off way too many tackles again this year . We have a team of seasoned first graders. Our players don't hit and stick , they fall off way too many attempts and it's costing us badly. If BA has identified it and tried to fix it it's clear his message isn't getting through.
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Our defence has been shit for years.
BA is clueless when it comes to fixing our defensive issues.
He either needs to bring in a specialist defence coach or just fuck off altogether.
Because the coach obviously has no idea except when it comes to contract extensions
Not numbering up and bad reads (which our players do also) is one thing .. but our players 1-17 fall off tackles left, right and centre.
Last week we obliterated the Knights and still missed 40+ tackles .
Canberra will give us plenty to handle because we can't defend against anyone but I suggest you all make other plans the following week and don't watch the game v Souths. We will get absolutely destroyed by them defending the way we do. Missed tackles and quick play the balls in the middle followed by quick spreads will pump us into oblivion.
Wighton is going to be running with Hudson young on his outside against JA. So boys how many points we thinking those two r going to get.
I don't know how someone stays in a job after making the same errors for 10 years. I suspect the board are worried about instability if they sack him.