Hold on to the ball until late in every tackle count when your halves want it (theirs demand it!). Don't turn it over with stupid off-loads from players who should not be play ball playing or off-loading. Make metres before mistakes. Leave the creativity to the 7 and 6. When the team gets in the red zone that is when your halves earn their big contracts to create and come up with the right plays at crucial times.Sandow and Norman take note. You need a fullback with pace and able to break tackles consistently. Even with our depleted squad, on paper we are a much better team than the Dragons but simply don't respect the ball and IMO don't have capable halves who demand the ball and come up with the right plays. As for the Dragons defence, I take my hat off. They are committed and deserve full credit, but it is much easier to defend when you don't turn the ball over set after set and defend as we have become accustomed to in every game for extended periods.
Time to get back to basics.
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Last 2 weeks we have really dropped off the pace after a solid start to the season. Get back to the basics and earnt the right to offload. How about the simple kicks into the in goal completed by both teams tonight, sandow and Norman need to improve big time in this area!
When Sandow and Norman kick, it appears like no one else in the team knows where it is going. Close to the line the majority of their kicks look like they are chips or grubbers for themselves. The other teams have runners in numbers sprinting to where the ball will land, hence the repeat sets we consistently can't get. How many times this year have you seen the ball go in the oppositions in-goal only for a player to get out....why? because our chases had no idea where our halves were kicking to. Is this just my opinion?
We'll coached team too.
Exactly. I think Mannah yelled at Sandow during our last game to "Tell us what you're going to do!".
I posted that comment. You either have a good memory B&G or a stalker! just closing my bathroom window now.
Dragons starting props made 115m & 97m.
Last week ours made 87m & 76m. In fact our four props only played for 38, 38, 45 & 25 mins meaning for the majority of the game we played with an understrength pack...no wonder we're getting steam rolled by B grade teams. There is only one person to blame for this your so-called "saviour".
An interesting stat.
By listing the individual minutes in a row you give the appearance of half coverage, to back up your conclusion of majority of game with not enough props. But without counting in two's, we misrepresent things. Try the opposite, for example. Count in four's. Collectively, our props played more minutes than the game extends: we lacked mobility! Counting by two's means we had two props on the field for three-quarters of the game.
I agree BA needs to revisit his bench, because we might be too light. But we have to try to be accurate about the scale of the problem too!
We are just too often a dumb football side. We push passes, try high risk offloads on tackle 1 in our 20, don't complete sets, don't have a decent unified chase on most kicks, don't seem to aim for a repeat set if a try is not on, don't communicate well enough, don't attack with defence enough, regularly do 'nothing' things on the last, not enough support play etc.
I think most of this does not have that much to do with skill or speed or natural talent or size etc... rather it is just the basic fundamentals of the game and that is where we so often fall down.
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