I've gone through this with a couple of kids this year. Standout players on their teams the last few years, everyone pumping up their tyres etc. but playing low divs with no structure. They haven't learned yet that when you play good teams, you can't expect chip and chase from your own end on tackle 2 and score every time. From their PoV the team is there to serve them, rather than them being a cog in the machine. They are teenagers, so they are bound to think that... but they need to grow out of that attitude eventually.
I got told once I had to work for my team. I didn't get it for a while cause as a teenager I was like "I'm scoring every ****ing point we get, only **** making rep sides & cleaning up the awards, WTF?"
The opposite is just as apt. For the kid who is a team player, follows instructions and does all the talking... the parents sit there and say "I don't why the coach loves that kid. He does nothing.".
Pretty much. I think we are going to go away from the small ballplayer again, cause now we will see more big strong FR sized locks, than can ALSO ballplay, tackle all day, and run hard and strong. What was it Jack Gibson said about big players as the game goes on? Teams/positions are nrly becoming uniform in size as it is.
It's a touch football tactic basically the attacker runs touches defender plays the ball, try to catch defence offside
Play to your strengths.
Yep,100% agree. Even the great small lock of his era, Graeme O'Gradey cld Ball Play. If we are staying small, that's the sort of guy. Wade or the Tooth cld maybe, but they now playing against bigger bodies than "The Snake". Again personally, there's a prototype bigger, but just as athletic as Murray, just waiting for a chance, around the cnr. (Even The NUt can ballplay
)Can we offload him to the tigers
That's taking it overboard , nobody deserves that punishment .
