Oh right we won that game, which invalidates what I said ?
Go back and watch the Sharks game. I'll wait here.
The team as a whole played in slow motion and not to its strengths against the Sharks.
The point is Lane is a weapon out there and we still haven't worked out the best way to take advantage of his size and skill correctly and we only see glimpses of it. If Brown can improve his playmaking skills then he would bring Lane into another level of attack out there. Out lines are all wrong most of the time, especially when in the red zone. It is pathetic really and we rely on the bash and barge option way to much.
The red zone offensive part of our game is pitiful and the coaching has to wear that blame the most. If you can't see that I cant help you. If Moses didn't have a great kick in him, we would be a laughing stock as an offensive team.
To single out Lane as a problem and stifler of Dylan's attack is freakin hysterical and shows that we all see the same thing but come to very different conclusions.
I suppose you are one of these bonehead commentators that loves the energy level and contribution of Nathan Brown when he comes onto the ball on the 4th tackle too?
It is probably the dumbest and most wasted tackle that our coaching staff have persisted with for years now. When will they finally learn and realise that his settling 4th tackle hitup stifles all our momentum and only allows the defensive team time to reset the line unless he is lucky to get a super fast play the ball going.
When will the penny finally drop and they start to instruct him to go into the line with ball out in front of him with runners on either side of him in motion and then just as he is about to hit the line of defenders turn either right or left and pass to a moving at speed attacking line of outside players with space to move?
It isn't rocket science and he can pass and do it well, so why are we using him like a battering ram all the time, instead of like the Roosters use Radley for example? Or Matterson who also has ball playing skills could also do this at lock when Marata is back. If we focused on this small but huge variation on our 4th tackle option it would bring in all our attacking players and give them so much more room and space, especially in the Red zone, which we can't for the life of us, workout how to attack correctly. We just shift from side to side, with the barging settler or two and then kick hoping something works out. Very, very frustration and my throat gets hoarse screaming at the tele watching these idiots bumble around out there.
I keep saying it, what the hell are they practicing at training all week long? Very frustrating. It's the red zone for fu*k sake, get some depth, speed and bodies in motion for fu*k sake and strip them for numbers out wide. Then reload and do it again and again and again. Eventually they will fatigue and or falter. Why are we doing it so freakin wrong? Settlers are for the birds and teams like the Tigers. We are title contender and we need to learn how to attack the red zone correctly. Players like Dylan, Penisini and Blake would have a field day out there if we gave them that space.
