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  slip October 22, 2014 at 11:23am

  I was always worried about the day Hindmarsh would retire. The defence was ordinary in Hindy's last two years, but Parra have been diabolical in defence since his retirement.
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    Waterboy > slip October 22, 2014 at 2:38pm

    No one stepped up to cover his 50+ tackles a game. 
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  Waterboy October 22, 2014 at 2:41pm

  pretty sure you can get an app for that. 
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  SuperEel 22 October 22, 2014 at 2:46pm

  Tepai I believe will help. We went pound for pound with Souths for the 65min he was on. When he went off we cracked. Peats will also add a lot. His line speed and ability to stop a prop dead is something we haven't had for years.
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  SuperEel 22 October 22, 2014 at 2:48pm

  More importantly, no one picked up his cover defence load. Hindy patched over a lot of cracks in the middle of the field. Gower does a lot of that work but because he doesn't play 80 minutes we still crack a lot in the middle.
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    Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown > SuperEel 22 October 22, 2014 at 3:06pm

    Super..... Please can you please stop referring to holes and cracks you sick kent, this is a footy forum not you own private sex forum.
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    macybrown > SuperEel 22 October 22, 2014 at 3:08pm

    Yeah Super please sheeesh!!
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    Ham Sammich > SuperEel 22 October 22, 2014 at 3:12pm

    If anything there was more crack when Hindy was playing.

    
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  Eeldarado October 22, 2014 at 3:47pm

  IMO the last thing you want to do is turn Tepai into another Nathan Hindmarsh! Ultimatley Hindmarsh's defence was his and the clubs undoing they all knew he would make the last ditched effort tackle, they relied on him they used him, the club failed him by not surrounding him with player of a similar work ethics in defence,to have a player make 50 tackles In a match is sad and tells me the club has a serious problem balancing the work load around players!
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    Sir Col "THE NODDY MUSHROOM" > Eeldarado October 22, 2014 at 4:19pm

    Hindmarsh in his early days was an attack weapon - then Brian Smith made him a defender.

    Interestingly enough it was not long after that, that Hindy could not get a SOO or Roo's jersey.

    Moeroa is currently balancing both roles - let him keep going as he is.

    To start we need a defensive coach - don't know who we got atm but he has proven to be as useful as tits on a bull.

    Then we need a Coach to actually COACH defence against particular players and other team's game plans.

    I don't think most of our players have ever taken part in a vid session to study other players and game plans when you see how easily they can be stepped.

    Anticipation is a great tool, and you can only develop that if you study what the opposition do for the majority of the time.

    After that it is knowing what to watch for - body angle, placement of feet, how a player is holding the ball, etc.