Kearney

[The Engineers Room]

The last two games have shown me that the coaching staff have realized this as well. We have a 7 who's role is to inject himself from time to time by running the ball and taking the tackle 5 kick option.

Lucky have Paulo, Kelly and Hayne to counter that.

Having said that, the Dogs seem to cope OK with a one dimensional 7 (KK) so maybe we need to mimic their style of play.

Well it seems that way every year then round 1 the boring team is back. Also, the Bulldogs style of play is just an advance on what Manly was doing last year and what we started in 2009 with the offloads and what Brisbane has done in previous years with the forwards passing at the line. Hasler is a smart coach he doesn't just copy the plays of other teams he sees what is successful and breaks it down then uses his teams best assets.

the dogs are one dimensional, yes, but they have some incredible ball runners in the side and forward pack that are able to play before the line extremely well.

I wouldn't call the Bulldogs one dimensional. When the forwards go to the line they can charge at the line, pass the ball flat, offload the ball after the impact, pass the ball back to the ball players or Barba and with all these options the defence will make mistakes. The thing is they have worked on it all year and now they are selecting the right play more often.

Keating may pass the ball but Reynolds is starting to learn how to control a game and like you said dagerous options out wide in space is helpful.

What I want us to do is get our forwards to attract the defence and Sandow and Hayne to get the space off the back of that. I want Tonga to beat a tackle or pass the ball when the winger is unmarked. Blair and Morgan are quick and strong and can cause damage if they get space and Sio looks a good finisher.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I wouldn't call the Bulldogs one dimensional. When the forwards go to the line they can charge at the line, pass the ball flat, offload the ball after the impact, pass the ball back to the ball players or Barba and with all these options the defence will make mistakes.

You're right they do have a lot of very good forwards. The size difference between the two packs was obvious last night.

 

[El Diablo]

You're right they do have a lot of very good forwards. The size difference between the two packs was very obvious last night.

it did help them we missed Fui for 79 minutes

 

[The EELiminator]

it did help them we missed Fui for 79 minutes

he would have spent 40 of them on the bench anyway

 

[spiderdan]

You're right they do have a lot of very good forwards. The size difference between the two packs was obvious last night.

size is over-rated. if we run with more options/decoys then more of their line needs to work more (doing more running forward and back) and fatigues more.

 

[yy_cheng]

The problem is the damage has been done. We have a pack of forwards that looked to offload and pass and outside backs and halves that looked to play off the back of that (just like what the Bulldogs have now) but that was in 2009. Then in 2010 we tried again to play the high completion kick long grinding game and it didn't suit us. A few players from 2009 left and the coach was sacked. 2011 we get a new coach who surprise surprise wants us to play the grind to victory type of game, no offloads, hit ups and kick and we are still not suited because we don't have a playmaker that can take control of a game, we lose more players and even more games. 2012 we are a shell of that 2009 side now and showing promise again but still no one is hitting holes or running lines and the halfback we signed can't take control of a game.

We have still not learnt. This game isn't that hard to play but at the NRL level you need to be pro active with tactics not reactive. I am just saddened that we wasted an opportunity to be the trend setters and be frequent finalists in order to copy other teams.

this what I have been saying for years. we had an opportunity in 2010 to revolutionize rugby league. we should've built on it with some more structure but we went the way of Melbourne and went full structure which didn't work. we then went to offloads but it was way too late.

all the other teams went from structure and then added a touch of eels 2009 in their reportoire and now we are soo far behind the other teams in both areas.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

size is over-rated. if we run with more options/decoys then more of their line needs to work more (doing more running forward and back) and fatigues more.

Agreed. But at the end of the day there needs to be a collision, and we all know the saying about the good big bloke vs the good little bloke.

I thought we limited Kasiano well last night: 8 runs 52 metres 0 offloads in 42 minutes

Last time we played he killed us: 12 runs 123 metres 4 offloads in 39 minutes

Pritchard had about the same output but it took him an extra 20 minutes of play.

Tolman and Graham were relentless as usual. Their performances were nearly identical to each other's, and nearly identical to last time they played us.

There's no substitute for quality big men.

 

[Gronk]

size is over-rated. if we run with more options/decoys then more of their line needs to work more (doing more running forward and back) and fatigues more.

Agreed. But at the end of the day there needs to be a collision, and we all know the saying about the good big bloke vs the good little bloke.

I thought we limited Kasiano well last night: 8 runs 52 metres 0 offloads in 42 minutes

Last time we played he killed us: 12 runs 123 metres 4 offloads in 39 minutes

Pritchard had about the same output but it took him an extra 20 minutes of play.

Tolman and Graham were relentless as usual. Their performances were nearly identical to each other's, and nearly identical to last time they played us.

There's no substitute for quality big men.

:crazy:

 

[TheParraboy]

lol

 

[The EELiminator]

not that theres anything wrong with that

 

[eels81236]

Just because I can.

 

[The EELiminator]

and you dont think that could have gone into one of the ten thousand existing threads?

 

[hineyrulz]

You can never have enough Kearney threads.

 

[The EELiminator]

You can never have enough Kearney threads.

look around they are all kearney thread you could start a thread about lollipops and someone would bring him up in it

 

[eels81236]

and you dont think that could have gone into one of the ten thousand existing threads?

I know. Sorry. I should have put it here.

 

[bartman]

A thread about lollipops?

Well that Kearney guy sure turned out to be an "all day sucker"... ;-)

 

[Eels Dude]

Speaking of lollipops, this will be me when Kearney finally gets the ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQmBXEZEYtg

 

[The EELiminator]

A thread about lollipops?

Well that Kearney guy sure turned out to be an "all day sucker"... ;-)

i think the board were the all day suckers for hiring him

 

[bartman]

Time for a caption competition anyone?

"Ok lads, this week's game plan is the same as last week's - take first pass from dummy half, and run straight up there. Bound to fool them!"

 

[strider]

I don't think we need to make fun of Kearney ... from everything I have seen he's a good guy and he's doing what he believes is right to turn things around.

I don't think there would be anyone more stressed about our predicament right now than Stephen Kearney