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Just use a bigger glass.
You think we should be taking more risks and trying to score on every set rather than build pressure and force the opposition to make tackles?
Nonwonder you are a powerful millionaire.
FFS only about 40 mins too late.
2 backline plays instead of 1 in the opposition 20? Yes I'd be prepared to take that risk. Our go to of repeated crash balls are actually risky because they put the receiver under immense pressure and we aren't getting results from them. And the defence still has to make tackles regardless if they are on the left, right or middle of the field. I'm not saying score off every set you peanut. I clearly said "in the opposition 20". Do you think we are going to have every set in the opposition 20?
We should be better at creating space and overlaps. I think we’re pretty average at it for a first grade side. I think Sivo masks over a lot of our attacking deficiencies because he’s so powerful and doesn’t need as much space as most wingers to get over. If it was say Simonsson I don’t think we score as many tries on that wing.
The Cowboys are fourth in points scored with a spine of Drinkwater, Dearden, Townsend and Robson. Would you rate that spine better than ours?
See Barlow, spilling the ball at the line with the game in his hands, at the end of the finals game against Penrith.
Have you ever dropped food on the floor and then picked it up to eat it?
No, that would be like making week 1 of the finals and getting smashed and then talking us up on how we’re a team that consistently makes the finals.
When we lose our halves always pass the ball more than when we win. Yes I'm implying causation but the fact is it's just not that easy to go around teams. You need to earn the right, and that means pressuring the middle. I think as Parra fans we can get fooled into thinking it's all about throwing the ball wide because it appears to work so well against us. But it only works when teams force us to compress. It's the same reason Sivo scores so many tries. For many of them he goes over untouched because we've forced the defence to come in, either by hammering Lane at them, or overloading their middle with our other forwards.
I think we are, they're just not immediately apparent. The main result we get from the crash balls is space out wide later on.
Yes of course I do.
Yep. All these 'tactics' they see from other teams are built around smart playmakers. Really, outside of Gutherson we don't have those 'eyes up' players that some of the best teams have. So we play to our strengths instead.
It's at least as good. It's definitely smarter, and Drinkwater/Robson are more dangerous runners than our two. Moses is a better kicker than any of the Cowboys spine, but then he is a weaker defender as well.
