hairy asad
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After yesterdays game against the sharks two main tactical reasons for the bulldogs poor first half performance emerged:
1) No runs out of dummy half (too much one off the ruck stuff)
2) No long kicking game
The dummy half problem could be solved with a livewire hooker like a billy ngawini but im resigned to this never happening because of his so called "poor defence"......
The way to fix both problems is simple......it involves reinstating Holdsoworth (who actually played quite well in the early weeks) and killing adam perrry. Holdworth has a decent long kicking game and obviously this is what we lack. Even though Anasta was never really talented his long kicking game complimented sherwin nicely and took loads of pressure off him.
But roberts should hang around as an x factor so why doesn't folkes do this:
6) Holdsworth
7) Sherwin
9) Hughes
14) Roberts
Hughes starts to tighten up ruck defence and at around the 25 minute mark roberts comes on to add some spark. He should slot into the 7 with sherwin shifiting to hooker. This would help because sherwin has a good one hand pick up and putting him at hooker will encourage him to take the line on more.
The only problems really are then having an inconsistent halves combo and sherwin's unknown performance at hooker. But still it can't be worse than what we have at the moment. This situation is actually a lot like in 2001 with anasta, trindall and sherwin.....too much talent and not enough positions.
1) No runs out of dummy half (too much one off the ruck stuff)
2) No long kicking game
The dummy half problem could be solved with a livewire hooker like a billy ngawini but im resigned to this never happening because of his so called "poor defence"......
The way to fix both problems is simple......it involves reinstating Holdsoworth (who actually played quite well in the early weeks) and killing adam perrry. Holdworth has a decent long kicking game and obviously this is what we lack. Even though Anasta was never really talented his long kicking game complimented sherwin nicely and took loads of pressure off him.
But roberts should hang around as an x factor so why doesn't folkes do this:
6) Holdsworth
7) Sherwin
9) Hughes
14) Roberts
Hughes starts to tighten up ruck defence and at around the 25 minute mark roberts comes on to add some spark. He should slot into the 7 with sherwin shifiting to hooker. This would help because sherwin has a good one hand pick up and putting him at hooker will encourage him to take the line on more.
The only problems really are then having an inconsistent halves combo and sherwin's unknown performance at hooker. But still it can't be worse than what we have at the moment. This situation is actually a lot like in 2001 with anasta, trindall and sherwin.....too much talent and not enough positions.