Short flat ball Pearce to Fitzgibbon

[Yosh]

This needs a thread or a go fund me page or something. Please can we put in an official complaint to the Knights board. It needs to stop. It's embarrassing...

 

[Zoidberg]

Why not just cut out Fitz and go to a better player in Best?

 

[aqua_duck]

We're dead set in love with that play, it's like they think Fitzy is SBW circa 06

 

[Apey]

I'm amazed we didn't drop the ball with it today.

 

[Yosh]

I'm amazed we didn't drop the ball with it today.

I wish he dropped it more often because we'd probably move away from it then.

 

[Old dog]

What needs to change is using it as a decoy, use Best or winger, keep defence guessing

 

[perverse]

You need to run that play often enough so that the defence sticks on Fitzgibbon and gives space out wide. We're missing the payoff where we take advantage of it after setting it up, though. Plays aren't run in isolation, it's about how the set/s are structured to get the defence where you want them when you run the money play.

 

[Knight Vision]

You need to run that play often enough so that the defence sticks on Fitzgibbon and gives space out wide. We're missing the payoff where we take advantage of it after setting it up, though. Plays aren't run in isolation, it's about how the set/s are structured to get the defence where you want them when you run the money play.

I dont think Pearce thinks that deeply, to be honest.

 

[Knight76]

I dont think Pearce thinks that deeply, to be honest.

Isn't that what the coach is for? Noticing these strategic chances and coaching it in to the team?

 

[Walk On Home Boy]

It's the new Mullo chip bomb (?) thing. Does nothing and will never amount to anything but for some reason we keep doing it.

 

[Knight Vision]

Isn't that what the coach is for? Noticing these strategic chances and coaching it in to the team?

indeed. You would hope though that at the stage of Pearce's career not a word needs to be said....we can see it and we're only supporters.

 

[Still Nutty]

It's the new Mullo chip bomb (?) thing. Does nothing and will never amount to anything but for some reason we keep doing it.

Agree with the predictability of the play but I think it underlines a more serious problem with our attack in general....we never seem to get enough bodies in motion to create any defensive uncertainty in the opposition and that makes everything we do in attack largely predictable.

I get that Obi has clearly been working (effectively) to get our defensive structures bedded down as a priority for the team and the progression in results is largely showing he is being effective there but we need to be getting much more sophisticated in our attacking plays for this team to be at least moderately competitive this season.

If the Fitz short ball is only one of 2, 3 or 4 play variations out of that set up then it has some capacity to be effective when it is used once out of the 2 or 3 other play options available in the play book. The play can be equally effective where those other options challenge the defensive line in other ways to exploit the expected 'short ball to Fitz' option.

 

[betcats]

We're dead set in love with that play, it's like they think Fitzy is SBW circa 06

Its Pearceys favourite play. I can remember him him butchering overlaps at the roosters going short to his back rower all the time.

 

[Knight Vision]

is it possible we just dont have enough mongrel in the side ?

We have a bunch of nice fellas, the only lunatic of note being Barny but even he isnt out there enough for mine. There just isnt enough fire in belly, send em back up the highway battered and bruised ruing the next time they play us.

I hate seeing us bullied.

 

[aqua_duck]

Its Pearceys favourite play. I can remember him him butchering overlaps at the roosters going short to his back rower all the time.

I could somewhat understand it if he were passing to sbw or Cordner but Fitzy ain't them

 

[Knight Vision]

I could somewhat understand it if he were passing to sbw or Cordner but Fitzy ain't them

Frizell will be

 

[Yosh]

Rewatches the game against the Dogs and Pearce is just the worst under pressure. With the game in the line, Ponga and Mann start dominating thr game while Pearce literally passed flat to Fitzgibbon twice on the last tackle and kicked into legs twice as well.

Just wanted ti vent...

 

[EdLondon]

Thought this summed up our attack this year perfectly. Don't know who made it.

 

[Spot On]

Rewatches the game against the Dogs and Pearce is just the worst under pressure. With the game in the line, Ponga and Mann start dominating thr game while Pearce literally passed flat to Fitzgibbon twice on the last tackle and kicked into legs twice as well.

Just wanted ti vent...

Now, now Yosh...

It has been recorded by a fellow forumite that Pearce is the 2020 season scapegoat.

Ease up on him brother.

 

[Spot On]

Thought this summed up our attack this year perfectly. Don't know who made it.

Gold.