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Two in a tackle, first in goes low and almost simultaneously, the second goes to smother the ball. If necessary, a third man joins in to block an offload.
Why does Deano need to put in that much effort. Don’t you know who his dad is !!!I think that a good way for Deano to be a better defensive coach is to do a fair bit of study of the past years of Penrith dominating the comp from 2020 to 2024. Penrith had the lowest points scored against them out of all of the teams in those years and Deano should look at several of the games of each of those years to see how Cleary and his coaches, one being Ciraldo - defence (now with the Bulldogs) and the other Webster - attack (now with the Warriors) up to the end of 2022 and now Peter Wallace (attack) and Ben Gardiner (defence) from 2023 to now.
I am sure that if Deano could set aside a few hours every day for a week and study some games Penrith played in those years and with the different assistant coaches, particular games when nil to low points were scored against them, then I am certain that he will learn heaps. Maybe he already has and if he has, he is not smart because he hasn't learnt anything going from results so I doubt that he has because his ego would not allow him to bend that low in his mindset.
The quality of players of course has a big bearing as well on how good or bad the defence is. All teams would also have some bad days - cellar dwellers of course very bad days.
Club - Penrith Panthers
Year Games Played Ladder Position Points Against G/F Result
2020 20 1st 238 - Covid 19 year lost to Storm
2021 24 2nd 286 won
2022 24 1st 330 won
2023 24 1st 312 won
2024 24 2nd 394 won
2025 16 6th 329 ???
So far this year, the Bulldogs have the best Against with 270 points scored against them and are coming 3rd after playing 16 games with 8 more games to play.
I honestly don't know I started did this post - crazy me!!!
Obviously Deano didn't learn too much from his dad about defence. His dad wasn't much chop when he was the coach of the Dragons.Why does Deano need to put in that much effort. Don’t you know who his dad is !!!
To be fair, isn't White the NSW defensive coach? I though Young and Bellamy were bought in as advisors, hence they were sitting behind Laurie, King and White in the box?
I hope he does too .......
I think BA will land that job unfortunately
Hahahaha I was being sarcastic. I don’t rate Dean Young as a coach at all. And yes he certainly does need to get up to speed with the modern game
If he comes here it will be head coach only
If the assistant needs to get sacked the dud head coach who is responsible for results will be Dumped first
Goodbye is needed for all of them, Flanagan, Dean Young, Carr is going anyways.
