What, all one of them?
Round 20, 2012 NRL: Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs Canberra Raiders @ Toyota Stadium, Sunday 22nd July, 2.00pm
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What, all one of them?
Greatest supercoach move of the year right there Asnow.
Haha - power play!
oozy
Grey Nurse
i briefly mentioned this last week against the dragons. "gameplans" surely need to be flexible right.
you have your A plan, and if things don't go accordingly you switch to B or maybe C .D or even F.
This sticking to the Game plan is reminiscent of Custer's last stand. very worrying for a pro football team though..
A.Snowden
Jaws
That's a very astute observation mate and you couldn't be more right. For some reason we tried to go around them by going sideline to sideline. It didn't work in the first half and it surely didn't work in the second half. We would have been better off just smashing it down the middle and running from dummy half. Atleast the scoreline may have been more respectable. And whilst I don't know for sure I've got a feeling that DeGois has been tied down trying to follow the "A" plan. The dude just doesn't run from dummy half anymore. Very worrying indeed.
A.Snowden
Jaws
Think its time to give Chad another run.
oozy
Grey Nurse
Today was our worst performance/result at home for a long time.
players are crook with the flu, carrying niggling injury's, our 2 best are watching from the side line.
no-ones putting their cue in the rack .. we will be there when the whips are cracking.
mark my words..
Drool. Now were are getting somewhere.
Gards
Jaws
If you look at things that simplistic then I guess Carney & Gallen havn't helped us to wins either.
Back to the game, our only try came from some good work from Morris & Tafua. Good on them but seriously we shouldn't be relying on them for posting points!
Flanno needs to drill it into this team that regardless of circumstances an effort like that is not and will never be acceptable. He also needs to take responsilibty for our attacking structure being non existant. We are way too flat.
We are flat but we Also seem to lack bodies in motion. We kicked on the 4th tackle 3 or 4 times today. We are not a team who can afford to give attacking chances away!
Would've been nice, but with Gal & Jez out, Graham was obviously carrying a sternum injury, Bukuya looked like he was struggling with something - we had no punch in the forwards today.
Gards
Jaws
I thought Gibbs & Fafita had some impact. Ross was solid. We were down their end, the issue was the same one we have had for years. Can't do anything near the tryline! Even then we rely on our forwards to barge over with the Morris pet play
evertonshark
Jaws
Another thing - this predictability we are showing in attack shows why Gards needs to be in the backline next year. After Flash he needs to be the next back picked, i don't care what positions they play, they will give us the most chance of scoring points.
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The problem is we concentrate too much on completing sets. It's true that if you complete more sets then you're opposition, you're probably going to go on and win, but only too a degree. Of you go out and play one off and one outs, completing every set you're not going to win because you're not offering anything to the defence.
Lately our attack has been that one out, one off **** that is quite boring and predictable. We used to play this way, but with more variety. Offloads, decoy runners, you name it. Can you remember a play today where we used a decoy runner? I can't.
Robson has everything to do with it. He's the one leading the team, structuring the team. Inside our own 20 the past three weeks we've looked lost and disorganized. We spread it to one side, then throw it back the other way, have two forwards settle it then kick away. That's our ****ing set of six inside the oppositions 20. Where have the short side plays gone? Even the class grubbers early in the count to get our repeat sets?
Lately our attack has been that one out, one off **** that is quite boring and predictable. We used to play this way, but with more variety. Offloads, decoy runners, you name it. Can you remember a play today where we used a decoy runner? I can't.
Robson has everything to do with it. He's the one leading the team, structuring the team. Inside our own 20 the past three weeks we've looked lost and disorganized. We spread it to one side, then throw it back the other way, have two forwards settle it then kick away. That's our ****ing set of six inside the oppositions 20. Where have the short side plays gone? Even the class grubbers early in the count to get our repeat sets?
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His ball playing, especially with Bukuya is criminally under-rated.
Gibbs deserves a medal - he chased runaway plays & made the tackle a couple of times - played like a centre. I think Fifita did that once himself.
They both put our entire backline to shame in that regard.
Trouble was though, we made SFA metres with the ball in attack through our forwards.
Gards
Jaws
Game after game we are conceding about 50 metres per set and making 30. At least our error rate is low this year but need to take advantage of that discipline.