No you didn't, you told me how the outcomes have been different to last year (ie. more of one type of try and less of another and overall one extra try scored per game).
But the tries you score isn't the same as your gameplan.
Funnily enough, I thought saying that we score our points through set plays now is part of the gameplan... We actually have about 15 different variations on that play down that left edge that I've seen this year alone. Last year we had nothing like that.
Ah ok. So the gameplan was "wait until you get broken play and then score tries"?
Believe it or not, much of it was. We weren't a potent side inside the opposition 20, we relied on capitalising on mistakes and scoring points quickly after them. Part of the gameplan? No, but it was a requirement in our games to win them. This year our attack is far more potent.
f**k. And you call me simple? :shock:
Don't shoot the messenger.
Do you have any idea how the team aimed to achieve broken play last year? Do you know why they scored so many tries from broken play last year but not this year? Broken play tends to be a pretty decent opportunity to score. Why aren't they managing it this year? Do you think Bennett has told them to hold the ball when a break is made? Why do you think he would have done this?
We're controlling field position much better this year, most of the time, most teams aren't in a position to fumble the ball and we have 80m to scoop it up and run the length of the field. We're much better at pinning teams in their own half. Last year we scored the most trys of any team from their own half. This year I think we've scored 2.
So were they not trying set plays last year? If not why not? Or were they trying them last year and they just weren't coming off? Why are they comfortable passing the ball in set play situations this year, but not in broken play?
We had pretty much no set plays last year, well nothing used in the first half of last year. Defence and ball control was our focus, we rarely threw the ball around.
And do you realise that 'broken play' and 'set play' situations aren't mutually exclusive? If you make a break during a set play you are in broken play. If you go on to score a try is it a try from set play or a try from broken play? It seems a fairly childlike distinction.
Does boring yourself with semantics give you some sense of self accomplishment thinking you've won the argument? I know exactly the difference between the two, we're relying far less on opposition errors to win games than we did last year.
So I ask again, what is the team doing differently to cause the different try-scoring pattern from last year?
Another year under a good coach where the focus is less on defence and more on ball-playing.
So they're passing Soward the ball less? Supporting him less when he runs with it? What exactly? If getting Soward involved worked last year why would they change it? In fact, what are they doing now instead of going to Soward?
Because you've thrown out a bunch of cliched statements - typical footy fan quotes that sound like something Terry Kennedy would say - without showing you know anything about how a gameplan works. And then you want to hide behind it by calling other people idiots?
Sure.
Soward's job thus far this year has been to get to the kicks, improve his defence and distribute the ball. Last year he was the goto man, but it got worked out by seasons end. This year Boyd has taken on a much bigger role in our attack and it's let Soward focus on injecting himself when needed instead of all the time.
Enough cliched comments there for you? I look forward to you not reading any of it then putting your own geniused spin on what I'm not saying.
