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Not very well.The most committed side in the world won’t win many games with today’s defensive structures if all they do is ruck it out all game.
I can play this game as well
...we seem to not play to these attacking strengths very often at all?
Maybe you can coach the eels?
Yup
I stand corrected.
Neither can you. That’s a fair sign that your attack is gash when you’re relying on unstructured off-the-cuff second phase play. How’s that strength working out for us by the way? We have the most offloads in the comp by a fair margin (202 vs the next most with 171), with the third worst attack. Secondly, with our defence being a pile of shit as you say, probably not a great idea to have an attacking focus that is more likely to lead to errors. Thirdly, what coaching staff decides offloads and second phase play should be our attacking strength with a halves pairing of Moses and Drown? Moses has proven he can thrive setting up and executing a quality attack. It’s on the coaching staff to actually f**king coach the rest of the muppets what lines and decoys to run (which isn’t rocket science). It’s either laziness or incompetence on their part that this part of our game as been average at best for so long.
Or if they don’t they’re free to leave.
Why can’t it be both you goose? I’m not excusing the deadshits on the field for their lack of commitment, I’m just putting forward my opinion on why it happens. I want a clean out of our roster FFS, with Moses, Lomax and possibly Penisini the only must keeps.Looks like we are back to the age old LU argument of "it's the coaches fault" vs "highly paid players are not turning up". And "we don't have a game plan" vs "they are not following the game plan".
We agree then.
I don’t think thats the case at all. Im confident that if anyone ever said that our players are pea hearts and our coaching sucks balls, you would not have one argument from the “BA haters”.We agree then.
I hope you realize that this topic has been raised 100's of times and whenever someone dared to suggest that maybe it was also the players not taking responsibility, the BA haters would be.
Well we will beg to differ then and pretend that the "excuses" and "no matter what the club did no wrong" tags were never applied to this topic.
Equally, I’m pleased that some people have come around to what “the BA haters” as you call them realised a long time ago, that coaching wasn’t THE problem, but it was A problem.
If you were a player, and you were stuck with this boring 'chase the collision' game plan week after week, year after year, wouldn't you eventually find yourself
Nah, I can’t suffer fools.
As a professional athlete it shouldn’t happen so I think the players need to take plenty of the responsibility. But I certainly take your first point that it’s probably a major reason (not excuse) for it.
