Fowards Impact.

[George Dragon]

Our forwards sit 13th and 14th in line breaks and off loads.
Lawrie has played all 16 games
He might be steady or reliable but
0 and 0 and 4 tackle breaks just isn't good enough for FG.

 

[hazzbeen]

Forwards impact 0 ....

 

[getsmarty]

Our forwards sit 13th and 14th in line breaks and off loads.
Lawrie has played all 16 games
He might be steady or reliable but
0 and 0 and 4 tackle breaks just isn't good enough for FG.View attachment 41422

Bullseye..........

 

[True_Believer]

Our forwards sit 13th and 14th in line breaks and off loads.
Lawrie has played all 16 games
He might be steady or reliable but
0 and 0 and 4 tackle breaks just isn't good enough for FG.View attachment 41422

Agree George. Forwards are the key

 

[muzby]

We need to be ready for offloads.

A few occasions last night Friz had the ball free looking for a runner

 

[Dragon David]

We need to be ready for offloads.

A few occasions last night Friz had the ball free looking for a runner

Hardly any second phase play. What in hell do they practise at training. I think they should have a full day of doing off loads at training - just practise and practise until it becomes second nature. Learn how to hold the ball with one hand but knowing when to hold onto it tightly to stop the ball from being dislodged or taken one on one, but learn this skill 100%.

 

[possm]

Either Griffin or Wane could keep Pangai Jr under control. I think that things have come to a point where he knows he is on his last chance so that gives me confidence that under a good experienced coach, he would pull his head in.

So if we could sign our new coach within the next two weeks and then sign Welch and Pangai Jr our prop rotation would look half decent. From there we just need to sign a replacement for Frizell as McInnes is a good replacement at lock for De Belin.

Forwards:
Vaughan
Hunt
Welch
T Sims
? - Who do you think we should recruit to replace Frizell?
McInnes

Pangai Jr
Kerr
Lawrie/Blacker
Ford/Host

 

[Dragonslayer]

Either Griffin or Wane could keep Pangai Jr under control. I think that things have come to a point where he knows he is on his last chance so that gives me confidence that under a good experienced coach, he would pull his head in.

So if we could sign our new coach within the next two weeks and then sign Welch and Pangai Jr our prop rotation would look half decent. From there we just need to sign a replacement for Frizell as McInnes is a good replacement at lock for De Belin.

Forwards:
Vaughan
Hunt
Welch
T Sims
? - Who do you think we should recruit for this position?
McInnes

Pangai Jr
Kerr
Lawrie/Blacker
Ford/Host

It appears Welsh has knocked us back and Pengai is a at very long odds to join us even with an experienced coach at the helm.
Some reports are another forward isnt keen to stay with us as well.

 

[ChocOConnor]

Watching the game I started to even ask my girlfriend why the hell don’t we support the bloody ball carrier.
After a while she looked at me and said what are you on about.

That is exactly how the dragons play.
What are you on about we don’t know how to.

 

[be55]

Our forwards sit 13th and 14th in line breaks and off loads.
Lawrie has played all 16 games
He might be steady or reliable but
0 and 0 and 4 tackle breaks just isn't good enough for FG.View attachment 41422

Mate half the problem is that our forwards have been coached to play like that.I remember Mcgregor in an interview years ago talking about how we were going to play a forwards based game plan.That idiot thought we were just going to steam roll over the top of opposition forward packs.Our forwards weren't coached to try and stand in tackles and offload , our try to hit holes.Even our new coach probably will not be able to fix this overnight because it is so ingrained into their mindset.The players have been coached to run hard and get to the ground as quickly as possible and then get up quickly to play the ball and gain momentum that way.
We are a sinking ship at the moment.We hit the iceberg called Mcgregor years ago and have been taking on water ever since.Even our new coach will take a while to plug the holes and turn the ship around. At the moment our team is the Titanic,Mcgregor was the iceberg and us fans of the club are the people who were forced to jump overboard and freeze our nuts off in the cold water.

 

[Blood Shot Eyes]

And further we are now using McIness as a bust em up the guts player......seriously !!!!

 

[Saint52]

we had bench props, and second rows were poor
Although future i liked Ford
McInnes is not a lock
Look how Peachy played up the middle

 

[Inisai Toga]

We need to be ready for offloads.

A few occasions last night Friz had the ball free looking for a runner

Exactly, why aren’t players ready to take advantage of this??? ; possibly because it’s not a habit and because the coaching philosophy for seven years has been centred on high completion rates and reducing errors and penalties. Well if thats all that coaching football teams is about you don’t need ex- footballers being paid close to 1 million to deliver that!

 

[epDragon62]

Totally agree that our forwards and how they are playing is a big problem.

Our backs and halves will be far more impressive if the forwards are creating.

Last night JWH was doing no look passes; loved it and was jealous

 

[I'm Hornby]

? - Who do you think we should recruit to replace Frizell?

I would like to see us shoot for John Asiata and Bayley Sironen.

Good, honest players who will run and pass the footy as backrowers.

 

[redVinme]

I would like to see us shoot for John Asiata and Bayley Sironen.

Good, honest players who will run and pass the footy as backrowers.

I agree. Not much around but they are both good options.

I think our biggest issue is that we don't have any point of difference. Almost all of our backs and all our forwards are they same type of tuck and run player. Any coach with a brain knows this and tells his players to tackle in 2s and 3s as there is no need to expect any second phase. This means they get longer in the ruck and leads to lack of momentum for us. The same obviously can't be said for us and the lack of consistent line speed and offloads from the other team means we often can't control the ruck and end up peddling backwards.


How we let luc go I'll never understand. I think we need a prop who can offload effectively as well as an edge. I think Ford looks like to promote the ball though.

 

[Dragon David]

And further we are now using McIness as a bust em up the guts player......seriously !!!!

So utterly painful to see. Like something running into an immovable object.

Our guys cannot wait for the year to end.

Poor coaching for far too long and the bad stuff taught will take some time to be eradicated.

 

[redv13]

The offload was removed from the game plan 5 years ago. Throw in not moving up and allowing 50, 60, sometimes 70 easy meters per defensive set, losing the ruck, shit bench rotation and there you have it, Dragons footy 101. Useless f**ks

 

[redv13]

And Dean Young has been a big part of this problem too. He needs to go and if he gets the gig full time I can guarantee a wooden spoon or 2 will be coming

 

[Mjab]

It appears Welsh has knocked us back and Pengai is a at very long odds to join us even with an experienced coach at the helm.
Some reports are another forward isnt keen to stay with us as well.

?vaughn