emjaycee
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Off course I do mayte, I waz juss having a lite-harted momunt affa a preddy deep possed.
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Off course I do mayte, I waz juss having a lite-harted momunt affa a preddy deep possed.
Kidwell and Brthur are both from the Storm System. Please no more Bellamy clones. They are all the fish John West rejects.
Ummm… so David Kidwell?
I agree. While he’s popped out some ok coaches, only Maguire has had GF success and even that was short lived. Away from Scumbourne they’re never going to reach beyond that
I was suggesting that we should get someone that understands the storms defensive system and that we adopt it.
So you now agree we actually did pass the ball and forced their edge defenders to make a lot of tackles, more in fact than any other team that round? The fact you initially thought we didn't shows how humans form unreliable memories based on emotion. You saw us get smashed by offside defenders in the middle a few times and that memory sticks. It's all you can recall, and because you're looking for the easy fix of sacking the coach you've decided, with no proof, that it was the fault is his game plan. Confirmation bias.Don't worry about the game stats mate. Like I have told you before. Stats don't always tell the story you think they do. Watch with your eyes and assess with your brain. Did we play into their hands the way we attacked or did we use our brains to adjust our game plan so as we could break up their "smash mouth" defense?
Look at the Titans last night in the first half when they were competing for a clue.Come on I know you can do it. Throw away the stats and breathe. I know it's all you know and a massive security blanket. Don't worry, they have their place and you can pick them up again anytime when needed and appropriate, but for now just watch and think, what should we do when Josh Hodgson and Co are flying at us at the ruck and smashing us relentlessly at the play the ball?
A. Keep running as hard as we can straight at them?
or
B. Spread the ball quickly and as far to the edges where the defense would be vulnerable?
As for their centres having the highest attempted tackle count. We play, pass, pass, pass football. Very few decoys and players in motion. Of course their centres are going to make a lot of tackles, but very rarely will they be under to much pressure due to our sparkling and adventures creativity with the ball and footwork or speed and quality ball passing. Like I have told you many times. We play like we train, just like the Storm and every other team in the NRL. So what we do on the training paddock, that's what we do on the playing field on game day.
A game like the Raiders, one where our plan A game is being bashed out of us, we don't train for anything else, so we just get smashed or because it isn't part of our training, when we finally wake up and try to throw it around we have a very poor record of getting it right. And like I have mentioned here for a couple of years now, the bash and barge game is a very short sighted losers tactic unless you have finesse, footwork and speed to back it up and relieve the players from the physical collision to ease their burden.
And like I said before, the tactic of bash and barge reminds me of the great Western Suburbs teams of the mid 70's. They would annihilate everyone during the season proper, but come semi finals time they would get done. They had no fuel in the tank by then and the other teams like Manly, Parra, Cronulla and St George would go up a notch or two in intensity and whoop their arse. They never featured in a Grand Final ever, which is bizarre because if you watched the game back then, for at least 2 or 3 seasons during the regular games they were the team to beat. Again remember, when you try to kick every stone walking down the street, you will end up with no shoes.
Drop the stats and think.
You're welcome
Better @emjaycee ?
Greg and Marc Brentnall...
Bullemor would be a great signing.
Or maybe they are just better at keeping their negotiations under the radar (except when it suits the player's manager to leak it of course).
I’m sure his brother Tony could help us right this ship.
Isn’t he going to Sharks?
Well, when even the knobheads in the media aren’t suggesting we are looking at recruits, seems logical that is happening.
Up until the day it happened, was there any talk of TPJ going to Smugfers?
