jimmythehand
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After watching a couple of replays of two of the Knights tries, Ben Roberts looked like a schoolboy playing with men.
First try where McManus steps inside him, it was more like Ben Roberts simply ran past him. It's really pretty simple what Roberts should have done, he should have steadied himself, showed McManus the corner post and also cover the option of the step inside. Instead, he made McManus's decision an easy one by overcommitting to the corner post.
McDougall's try was more of the same, when Bailey picked the ball up Roberts overcommitted and pretty much ran past Bailey, leaving a huge gap in the defence. Again he needed to steady himself and wait for Bailey to reach him, not step past Bailey and let him through.
This sort of stuff is really really elementary and quite simply Ben Roberts should not be playing first grade with pathetic efforts like that. The most unfortunate thing is that you put making these decisions down to "instinct" or "nous", and Roberts just simply don't have it.
First try where McManus steps inside him, it was more like Ben Roberts simply ran past him. It's really pretty simple what Roberts should have done, he should have steadied himself, showed McManus the corner post and also cover the option of the step inside. Instead, he made McManus's decision an easy one by overcommitting to the corner post.
McDougall's try was more of the same, when Bailey picked the ball up Roberts overcommitted and pretty much ran past Bailey, leaving a huge gap in the defence. Again he needed to steady himself and wait for Bailey to reach him, not step past Bailey and let him through.
This sort of stuff is really really elementary and quite simply Ben Roberts should not be playing first grade with pathetic efforts like that. The most unfortunate thing is that you put making these decisions down to "instinct" or "nous", and Roberts just simply don't have it.