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Team vs. Broncos

chewsta

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This game will be a battle of temperament, commitment, enthusiasm and desire.

Both teams have a bountiful array of rookies, kids and hard heads.

The hard heads hold the key. The best led team will win this. The one that stays on track most in regards to game plan, discipline, execution and the above. That will all come down to your Gallens, Feefs, Priors, Morris’, Townsends, Boyds, Oates’, McCulloch’s, Gilletts etc

The kids on the dominant team will supply the bells and whistles.

It is written

Agree with all of this. It's our discipline and execution that worries me the most. Our set completions are hopeless. For that 15 - 20 minutes a game where everything sticks, it's beautiful to watch though.
 

Frenzy.

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Blokes get injured.

Hey I would love The Don, The Fus, not ever player in the team has to be a superstar.

We have enough inexperience in the side.

I suspect himself and Josh M will keep building a understanding, not there yet, but only 6 games.

Also missing Wade in attack, has played outside Wade for years, Capewell plays a different game, still getting used to that too.

The Fekstar is just warming into the season.

Hey John "The debut specialist" Morris could have picked Katoa, moved Xerri, played fullback Kennedy.

You know we need 17 players right? You cannot sack f**king everyone.

I think Sticky is a bit ahead of Bomber here. Corey Horsburgh, JJ Collins, Jack Murchie (this week), Bailey Simonsson, Hudson Young are the Raiders debs so far. Emre Guler is on the bench this week after 3 games last year and CNK was no veteran.

Nearly all of those are backrowers, fringe props as well.
 

Frenzy.

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Agree with all of this. It's our discipline and execution that worries me the most. Our set completions are hopeless. For that 15 - 20 minutes a game where everything sticks, it's beautiful to watch though.

Mind you, as reefy as mentioned the 2015 Ipswich team didn’t worry about completions. Well, so he says.

So I checked. Reef is correct

619/974 for a comp rate of only 63% for the year including finals

Won the GF with a CR of only 61%

I don’t see a mirror image of how Ippy played, just bits and bobs taken from here and there. For example I watched an interview with the Walkers recently and the gameplan was built on just throwing the ball around. They worried more about time in possesion than completions, i.e. 4 tackles at 2.5 minutes per set was better than 6 tackles at 1.5 minutes per set as it ran the other phargers ragged.

It’s an interesting study about getting outside the box.

The evolution ofthis Sharks team and how they will be paying bu Round 20 is of great interest
 

myrrh ken

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For the Sharks, coach John Morris is considering switching rookie star Bronson Xerri to the wing and Josh Dugan back to centre.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/e08e4b4e2135b1cc0ff1ebee04358b80


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Mind you, as reefy as mentioned the 2015 Ipswich team didn’t worry about completions. Well, so he says.

So I checked. Reef is correct

619/974 for a comp rate of only 63% for the year including finals

Won the GF with a CR of only 61%

I don’t see a mirror image of how Ippy played, just bits and bobs taken from here and there. For example I watched an interview with the Walkers recently and the gameplan was built on just throwing the ball around. They worried more about time in possesion than completions, i.e. 4 tackles at 2.5 minutes per set was better than 6 tackles at 1.5 minutes per set as it ran the other phargers ragged.

It’s an interesting study about getting outside the box.

The evolution ofthis Sharks team and how they will be paying bu Round 20 is of great interest

They didnt just win it, they sheertitin. Every week, the traditionalists said they would come unstuck. They lost a lot after that, with the little half leaving to come to the sharks , but in particular, Capes. Capes supplied the kick offs & sometimes the drop outs, both nearly always short. sometimes he was there to catch them.
The other similarity i see are the shifts. When we cause a problem down 1 side with johnno, we will inevitably go straight back as far away as possible to Moyza.
It is far can pretty to watch how effective it is in gassing out the other teams.
I can see so much of how we are playing now, coming from Ippy.
 

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They didnt just win it, they sheertitin. Every week, the traditionalists said they would come unstuck. They lost a lot after that, with the little half leaving to come to the sharks , but in particular, Capes. Capes supplied the kick offs & sometimes the drop outs, both nearly always short. sometimes he was there to catch them.
The other similarity i see are the shifts. When we cause a problem down 1 side with johnno, we will inevitably go straight back as far away as possible to Moyza.
It is far can pretty to watch how effective it is in gassing out the other teams.
I can see so much of how we are playing now, coming from Ippy.

I did some more study on their stats that year. Another feature was their enormous pass and dummy ratio. They threw 20-30 dummies a game and and an averaged 161 passes per game vs 134 against. With less time in possession and worse completions most games

They just played footy.

Only team they had trouble with all year was the Hunters who from the stats appear to have played them at their own game. Out passed them. Except the semi when all the stats are unIpswich like.
 
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I remember that game. The hunters were like watching Dallas cowboys with Emmit smith. 1 hit up followed by 4 more then maybe a kick. Ipswich waited for them to tire out.
 
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If kicking to Oates it needs to be on the ground, he is not suited, and we must stop his run backs, he gets the team going forward stop him, and broncs lose way quickly
 

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