Taking the shot at goal every time you get a penalty on the opposition line is pretty dull footy to me. You just don't get many chances like that, especially against Melbourne.
We have enough good players in our side to make the most the most of those opportunities. I can't really remember a game where I thought "gee I'm glad we took the 2" this year. Opposition teams know we will do that so are more likely to give a penalty away on their own line because the consequence is not that worrying to them.
The way WB wants us to play is weak as pi#s and inspires no confidence in the players and is ignorant of the quality in the side.
:crazy: Well for starters we beat Penrith because of a penalty goal.
And in all honesty I wasn't even referring to taking the two. I was referring to our style of attack that a lot of people around here are constantly bagging. What exactly about our style today was weak as piss? From where I stood we looked great in attack but some crucial errors by our younger players (Roberts, Sims, BJ and Waddell) cost us.
Like I said, we've shown on a few occasions now that we can play a great style of footy. We just cant seem to bring it when we're playing poorer teams and we play down to their level and play shit football in attack especially. To me this doesn't say that there's anything wrong with the style Bennett is teaching us, but we have a massive issue with consistency where there is a major gap between our best and worst footy. I'm hoping that once we get Bedsy back, and Gower takes over halfback we'll start putting together our better footy on a more consistent basis.
Bottom line: if we played like we did today against most teams we win. Simple as that. We just need to start making sure we're doing it when we need to. That will be a massive challenge for us.
