From behind the posts watching tonight our D did look different. Our spacing was definitely better but that meant fewer in the tackle. Its different but against a team more prepared to get the ball away it could backfire. The issue remained however that our wingers rush in even when its man on man. Crazy stuff really. Nice to see a change tonight but it might take a while.
What happened to the defensive style against the panfers. It was awesome.
We do alot of one outs giving effort and power and energy but against 3 defenders say 300kg vs 100kg you will usually lose out.
I get it to start like that, compress the opposition defense then introduce offloads which then causes the compressed defense trouble. But we arent even offloading.
I digress.
We need to put together:
a) the defensive style we use against panfers
b) Introduce offloads 30 mins into the game.
It all goes down to the balance.
We give alot of energy with our power game in attack so it makes our defense less agressive. Not using a full compliment of the bench also contributes to this. It is ying and yang.
The panfers use the back 5 to maintain their aggressive defense. Their balance is much better obviously.
We use the same pack to power it out as well as to try and be agressive in defense yet without the full use of the bench. Our rucking out from the back 5 is way below par since Fergo left. Guth isn't bad. Waqa not bad too but not enough.
I'd rather BA have the bench who comes in and rips in then comes off and then comes on again and rips in again. Actually, NRown can be used this way
And yes, Simonnsen's coming in when there was no need to was stupid.
