Rob Dragon
Juniors
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Ever since the Bennett days we have enjoyed very few free games. By this I mean games where we blow a side off the park by half-time and then everyone settles down to a good old game of touch football in the second half. These games are played at reduced intensity and the emotional energy expended is small. These games can also act as a pressure release from the grinding season. But with us every single game is a war to the death and a series of these games, especially when you constantly lose them, eventually breaks the mental resolve of the squad.
Our team is playing with a fair bit of pride. We have only been gapped by Easts and most other games we have tried to the end. Our trouble is that the opposition understands that we offer so little in attack that they simply have to get their defensive application right and we will offer no real attacking threat except in the air.
Interestingly it is our attack that is putting us under tremendous pressure and not our defence. Poor sides usually lose because of defensive fragilities first and foremost. Opposition teams understand that our No 7 and No 6 offer no real threat and it is for this reason that Coach Price must try something to provide a new level of unpredictability to the team. Further our two regular centres offer very little threat either. This all adds up to very little backline threat.
It is not good enough just trudging through the year waiting for 2014. Whilst we are searching for a new No 7 what happens if we are unable to find one? Perhaps Coach Price should consider that contingency and immediately consider who within the current squad could become the new No 7. And please do not throw at me that Coach Price is waiting for Kyle Stanley to turn up next year. Harold Holt is more likely to return from his swim then Kyle Stanley is of becoming a regular and consistent 1st grader little lone a player capable of holding a pivot No 7 role!
The kid Quinlan on Sunday showed some real flair; lets give him a shot at No 7 Coach Price. Would he seriously be worse than our current No 7? We need a few players who go to the line and ask questions of the defence.
Finally Coach Price understand this; Matt Prior is a 110kg bench rotation forward. He could not run out of side on a dark night such is his pace. Why was he playing in the centres on Sunday when Junior Vai Vai was available to play?
These arent startling observations are they?
Our team is playing with a fair bit of pride. We have only been gapped by Easts and most other games we have tried to the end. Our trouble is that the opposition understands that we offer so little in attack that they simply have to get their defensive application right and we will offer no real attacking threat except in the air.
Interestingly it is our attack that is putting us under tremendous pressure and not our defence. Poor sides usually lose because of defensive fragilities first and foremost. Opposition teams understand that our No 7 and No 6 offer no real threat and it is for this reason that Coach Price must try something to provide a new level of unpredictability to the team. Further our two regular centres offer very little threat either. This all adds up to very little backline threat.
It is not good enough just trudging through the year waiting for 2014. Whilst we are searching for a new No 7 what happens if we are unable to find one? Perhaps Coach Price should consider that contingency and immediately consider who within the current squad could become the new No 7. And please do not throw at me that Coach Price is waiting for Kyle Stanley to turn up next year. Harold Holt is more likely to return from his swim then Kyle Stanley is of becoming a regular and consistent 1st grader little lone a player capable of holding a pivot No 7 role!
The kid Quinlan on Sunday showed some real flair; lets give him a shot at No 7 Coach Price. Would he seriously be worse than our current No 7? We need a few players who go to the line and ask questions of the defence.
Finally Coach Price understand this; Matt Prior is a 110kg bench rotation forward. He could not run out of side on a dark night such is his pace. Why was he playing in the centres on Sunday when Junior Vai Vai was available to play?
These arent startling observations are they?
