No coach in the world can rejuvenate players that are physically past it.
If Hindmarsh can play like he did against Penrith, then it suggests that he isn't physically past it.
Poore is definitely NOT past it physically
MoiMoi - hard to tell since he's been playing too many minutes in a new position (that tends to require a different fitness and skillset)
Agreed. But they're still playing off the back of slow play-the-balls.
It's not just about metres though. It's about the speed of the play-the-balls at the end of each run and outside of Mannah and Allgood, ours are far too slow.
Got any stats to back that up? Seems a like a fairly safe excuse to hide behind EXCEPT that slow play the balls again are NOT all the players fault. Are they not discussing and practicing this at training?!?
We certainly have adjusted throughout the season, from employing a shooter at right centre ("Morgan can't read the play!" :crazy: "And now Blair can't read the play!" :crazy

to moving Sandow to the left side, it is all tinkering to mitigate a weakness.
If you think the worst defensive team in the comp only has one weakness, then I'd have to wonder if you are actually SK ;-)
Sure, Sandow is terrible, but Morgan can't read the play defensively and too often finds himself mid field making tackles he doesn't need to.
Blair developed this habit of rushing up to hit his opponent about a month ago, and what happened on Sunday was bound to happen I suppose.
Our attack has improved, but our defence has gotten worse - as you'd expect bringing Chris Sandow into the team.
You got any stats to back this one up?
There are some pretty easy ones to get a hold of, they are called "points per game".
Last season we scored 16.04 per game
This season we're on 16.8 per game.
Um, sure, it's an improvement, but not much of one...
Considering that 35% of the total points we have scored this year have been in situations where the result of the game is well beyond doubt, I'd suggest our attack is worse this year.
[I'm talking here ONLY about tries scored after the result is impossible to be different. So our try against Souths is NOT part of this calc, but the tries against Manly ARE.]