Problem is, we are absolutely clueless in attack right now. We were never that great in the Bennett era and we are worse now. We had one go to move during the Bennett years (the Boyd, Cooper, Morris sweep), and now that seems to have gone, there is nothing left. The few tries we do score usually come from a broken play or individual brilliance.
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I’m at a loss to understand why we are so disjointed in attack. We have 2 of the best wingers in the comp, Vidot is no slouch either. Cooper is a former international centre and Kyle was supposed to be the next best thing. Add to that a grand final winning halves pairing (granted Soward wasn’t there last night), but there should be no excuse why we look so clueless.
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The Morris move to fullback was nice, but he just doesn’t have the passing/link game at the moment. Look how Stewart, Bowen, Slater and co chime into the backline and feed their centres/wingers, much like Boyd used to do for us. Morris hasn’t really shown any ability to be a distributor which is to be expected as he is a winger after all. And there is absolutely no depth in our attack. Every time the ball reaches the centres and beyond, the defence is in our faces or we get bundled into touch.
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If you watch a team like the Cowboys the last couple of weeks, their outside backs have acres of room to use their skill and evasiveness, with devastating effect. All our backs do is catch the ball, then get smashed. What the hell are we doing at training, surely we’re not practicing getting smashed are we?
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Very frustrating to watch, seeing Price wanted to play a more expansive style. We have gone backwards if anything. Penrith got done 30-0 two weeks in row and we scored a grand total of 12 points. Add to this, 4 against the Bulldogs, 0 against the Sharks and 6 against the Cowboys. We are 14th in attack right now, and if we didn’t score that last try we’d be stone cold last.
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I’m no statistician, but I can’t remember any team being 14th in attack come close to winning the comp.
