Leading By Example?

[madunit]

Here is an article on Page 23 on This weeks Big League.

MORRIS IS LIVID AT DEFENSIVE LAPSES
The focus at Tigers' training this week has revolved around defence after their unbeaten start to the year crashed at the hands of the Bulldogs.
The Tigers conceeded 6 tries, and let the Bulldogs run for 1422 metres in a performance that was far removed from their polished efforts against the Dragons and Cowboys.
It was a display that left halfback John Morris seething.
"Our defence, which was really good in the first two rounds, was down," he said after the game.
"We'll have to (improve that for next week), that's the number one thing that will come out of the game.
"You won't win too many games while conceeding 32 points.
"It was really disappointing, everyone was down and we just didn't execute.
"We brought them into the game with silly options and our ball handling was down."

Then on page 27 we have the player stats for the game
John Morris had conceeded a penalty missed 6 tackles (second behind Heighington for the game) and 1 handling error, and thats not mentioning his kicking game at all.

And now for the analysis of Morris' words.

Our defence, which was really good in the first two rounds, was down," he said after the game.

He is a visionary. No one wonder he's wearing the 7 jumper. The Bulldogs made 299 out of 330 tackles. The Tigers made 281 out of 322 tackles. The Bulldogs had 7 line breaks, 2 by El Masri ffs!

"We'll have to (improve that for next week), that's the number one thing that will come out of the game.

You don't say! Thanks for letting us in on the teams secret for this week. Dipsh*t.

"You won't win too many games while conceeding 32 points.

As I said, a visionary. It's taken Royce how many years to finally have this penny drop?

"It was really disappointing, everyone was down and we just didn't execute.

Thats because the halfback has no creative skills. All creativity lies squarely on Farah at present, and the poor bugger wasn't 100% either.

"We brought them into the game with silly options and our ball handling was down.

Silly options such as Allowing Morris to have the ball touch his foot. The Tigers had 8 Handling errors, the Bulldogs 16. Actually, looking at every teams stats The Tigers had the least amount of handling errors out of all teams this week.
We conceeded 7 penalties to the Bulldogs 3. We had 11 scrums to the Bulldogs 3.
Ball handling wasn't the issue. It was morons doing stupid things causing penalties to allow the dogs to have repeat sets.
furthermore to the ball control worry Morris has. Completion rates.
Tigers 28/35
Bulldogs 29/42

Only the Titans came close this week to matching the Tigers for completions, they had 34/42.

Defence has always been a problem. Our forward pack was ordinary, and our benchies were fairly bloody useless.
Hanbury, 17 minutes, 2 tackles, 1 missed, 2 hit ups, 1 dummy half run, 14 metres gained
Galea, 35 minutes, 19 tackles, 4 missed, 1 penalty conceeded, 2 hit ups for 7 f**king metres! 7 metres gained in over half an hour!
Payne, 36 minutes, 14 tackles, 5 hit ups for 37 metres and 1 off load
Harrison, 34 minutes, 12 tackles, 1 missed, 1 penalty conceeded, 5 hit ups, 1 dummy half run for 76 metres, and an off load.

These are the game breakers we have coming on when the opposition is tired. Between the four of them, we have 47 tackles, 6 missed, 2 penalties conceeded, 14 hit ups, 2 dummy half runs for 134 metres and 2 off loads.

Most of the forwards matched or bettered most of those stats on their own in other sides.

It's f**king appalling.

What has Sheens done to fix this?

He replaces a winger and one of the blokes on the bench!

 

[Callan Pk]

Its the end of the world.

 

[themanonthehill]

Jesus christ you could not make it up. And to top it off we'll have to watch the f**kwit be responsible for more murders than the Carlton Crew and Carl Williams combined. It really is a shame williams is locked up and the Melbourne Benji is dead. We could have had a whip round and organised something .. average crowd of nigh on 20k ... 100k seemed to be the going rate... 5 bucks each .. you can't even get an upsized value meal for that these days (though alien might correct me)

 

[super_coach]

Dont worry Coach Shines has somthing up his sleeve, be prepared for some major changes in the no6 and no7.

The word doing the rounds Heads a morale to get a start in the very near future,maybe as soon as round 22

 

[themanonthehill]

To be fair to coach shines maybe morris is better at bicep curls, bench presses, shoulder presses and shuttle runs ? All vital ingredients for a halfback's creativity

 

[madunit]

not forgetting the egg and spoon of course...

 

[innsaneink]

I still think the Cowboys game took a LOT out of them.
Farah sick, Hodgo ga-ga most the week.
The main thing is how they hit back from the loss against a team they should beat easily, we always seem to have trouble winning games we should win.
Most worrying though is Farah is STILL sick.

 

[super_coach]

Remember our man Sheens said way back in his Green Frog days

"its easier to turn an athlete into a footballer than a footballer into a athlete"

Maybe their is an exception to every rule (little johnny Cronk might be an athlete but isnt a footballer)

 

[madunit]

no, he's an innovation.

Innovation's are always good

 

[themanonthehill]

We should expect to see coach shines down at little athletics or the local fitness first tring to find our next halfback after johnny cronk becomes an immortal