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Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

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    Votes: 109 48.0%
  • No

    Votes: 118 52.0%

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Happy MEel

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On the Grill Team this morning they were talking about Ennis’ interview with Arthur and he still has no answers why we are going so poorly.

They then asked Matty Johns if he had any thoughts. His response was that we are far too structured and have not adapted to the style of play that is successful this year. These are both coaching issues. Perhaps BA needs to apply some self reflection and accept a lot of the responsibility for this season and actually try to make some changes in the remaining games that may hold us in better stead for 2019. We are still playing the same way we have been all year, it’s just that last night’s opposition was even worse than us.

Say what you will about Matty Johns but you can’t question is knowledge of the game.
 

Gronk

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On the Grill Team this morning they were talking about Ennis’ interview with Arthur and he still has no answers why we are going so poorly.

They then asked Matty Johns if he had any thoughts. His response was that we are far too structured and have not adapted to the style of play that is successful this year. These are both coaching issues. Perhaps BA needs to apply some self reflection and accept a lot of the responsibility for this season and actually try to make some changes in the remaining games that may hold us in better stead for 2019. We are still playing the same way we have been all year, it’s just that last night’s opposition was even worse than us.

Say what you will about Matty Johns but you can’t question is knowledge of the game.

I agree that ad-lib play has been successful for teams like StG this year, but you can only do that if your forwards lay the platform. Yes it’s an overused cliche, but if you are not bending the line, getting fast play the balls and completing at 80%+ then your team will be cramped and running the ball off your try line all game. Sound familiar ?

We need some pigs up front to make some space, then our halves will have time and our centres early ball. Two good hookers who can dart out and test the markers. This will make a huge difference.
 

Happy MEel

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I agree that ad-lib play has been successful for teams like StG this year, but you can only do that if your forwards lay the platform. Yes it’s an overused cliche, but if you are not bending the line, getting fast play the balls and completing at 80%+ then your team will be cramped and running the ball off your try line all game. Sound familiar ?

We need some pigs up front to make some space, then our halves will have time and our centres early ball. Two good hookers who can dart out and test the markers. This will make a huge difference.
It’s not just that. We need to encourage offloads, have more runners off the ball, have our hookers and fullback sniffing around the ruck to take advantage of offloading opportunities and can we come up with some alternative attacking shapes FFS???

This season is gone. We can have a little more risk in our game and it could create the spark we need.
 

Gronk

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It’s not just that. We need to encourage offloads, have more runners off the ball, have our hookers and fullback sniffing around the ruck to take advantage of offloading opportunities and can we come up with some alternative attacking shapes FFS???

This season is gone. We can have a little more risk in our game and it could create the spark we need.

Shape come with space and the only way you get space is your pack bending the line, making half breaks and getting quick ball.

You can’t just start throwing the ball around if you are stuck in your half all match. The pigs need to roll up their sleeves.
 

Happy MEel

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Shape come with space and the only way you get space is your pack bending the line, making half breaks and getting quick ball.

You can’t just start throwing the ball around if you are stuck in your half all match. The pigs need to roll up their sleeves.
We’ve had ample opportunities attacking the opposition’s line and we are consistently terrible. We are far more dangerous from 40-50m out than we are in attacking zones. This needs to be fixed and Arthur appears incapable of running anything other than a clunky block play.
 

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