rabbitohs95
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Now while most people will blame certain players for our poor performances, I think the blame lies on more of the coaching than those wearing the jerseys. Sure, the fact that there's not much heart needs to be accounted for, but here's something i've thought of.
Since winning the 2014 premiership, we haven't adapted to the new rules at all.
1. The faster ruck
The ruck speed has been raised tremendously since the days where we were able to dictate the speed of the game with our wrestling tactics. Now we really struggle with the speed with guys like Tyrrell, the twins and Grevsmuhl lying in the ruck in defense. This puts us on the backfoot and as such teams are able to carve us up the middle. Happened a lot last night and has happened a lot in the past. We really need to work on it.
2. Linespeed
Our linespeed this year besides round 1 has been deplorable. Some players are jogging up to the line, and some even regress backwards afraid to tackle. Again last night was a great example of how shit we can be in defense. There's no heart, no determination and no will from most of the blokes out there. I dream of the days of the 2014 finals linespeed, up in their face and dragging blokes back 10 metres.
3. The makeup of our team
By this I mean moreso the look of our different positions. Good teams like the Broncos have big wingers, creative halves and big but mobile forwards. Us on the otherhand, have slow ageing/out of position backs, one half who has next to no talent, another who is programmed to the coach's plays, a bunch of big but laterally challenged forwards and tiny backrowers who get picked on. Really needs to change if we are to compete in this competition. We also have money tied to 2 players which means we have a very thin squad, and as such plodders like Tyrrell and Clark are picked because there's no one else.
4. The reduced interchange
Considering what our forwards offer, this is absolutely killing us. Our forwards are unfit and lazy and as such in the middle period of games they're getting tired, letting in more linebreaks/missing more tackles and generally are out of it. I thought with the fitness that Maguire likes to instill we'd be one of the more dangerous teams but it seems like we've regressed. I'll give a benefit of the doubt though considering we have so many players dealing with injuries.
These are all massive problems that we're struggling with at the moment and we need something to change fast, however with a small squad and plenty of injuries already, I can't see it happening this year. Normally i'm very positive but last night just showed me how much shit we are in. Not having fun this year guys
Since winning the 2014 premiership, we haven't adapted to the new rules at all.
1. The faster ruck
The ruck speed has been raised tremendously since the days where we were able to dictate the speed of the game with our wrestling tactics. Now we really struggle with the speed with guys like Tyrrell, the twins and Grevsmuhl lying in the ruck in defense. This puts us on the backfoot and as such teams are able to carve us up the middle. Happened a lot last night and has happened a lot in the past. We really need to work on it.
2. Linespeed
Our linespeed this year besides round 1 has been deplorable. Some players are jogging up to the line, and some even regress backwards afraid to tackle. Again last night was a great example of how shit we can be in defense. There's no heart, no determination and no will from most of the blokes out there. I dream of the days of the 2014 finals linespeed, up in their face and dragging blokes back 10 metres.
3. The makeup of our team
By this I mean moreso the look of our different positions. Good teams like the Broncos have big wingers, creative halves and big but mobile forwards. Us on the otherhand, have slow ageing/out of position backs, one half who has next to no talent, another who is programmed to the coach's plays, a bunch of big but laterally challenged forwards and tiny backrowers who get picked on. Really needs to change if we are to compete in this competition. We also have money tied to 2 players which means we have a very thin squad, and as such plodders like Tyrrell and Clark are picked because there's no one else.
4. The reduced interchange
Considering what our forwards offer, this is absolutely killing us. Our forwards are unfit and lazy and as such in the middle period of games they're getting tired, letting in more linebreaks/missing more tackles and generally are out of it. I thought with the fitness that Maguire likes to instill we'd be one of the more dangerous teams but it seems like we've regressed. I'll give a benefit of the doubt though considering we have so many players dealing with injuries.
These are all massive problems that we're struggling with at the moment and we need something to change fast, however with a small squad and plenty of injuries already, I can't see it happening this year. Normally i'm very positive but last night just showed me how much shit we are in. Not having fun this year guys