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Since the 'pen knows best, what went wrong last night (and also last time we played against Souffs)?
As an uneducated viewer it seemed like:
- We were rushed in defence. I blamed the refs for calling 'HEEEELD' before we'd even touched various players (I swear Crichton was told to release a guy who he had 1 hand on and was still trying to stop). However, it happened in both games. We just didn't seem to be able to stop them from running through the middle of us. It felt like every single time we were tackled they called 'SURRENDER' (and got to grab on for ages) whereas we were being told to get off ASAP, run back and give Souffs some space. IMO something was wrong with our defensive strategy for it to end up like that! Attack too though. Why all the surrender tackles? Did the ref decide we were trying to play the ball quickly by surrendering, so they let Souffs push us back 1m after the tackle & grab on for ~15 seconds because the ref really didn't like our tactic of playing the ball quickly? It seemed hypocritical because Souffs were doing just that... you'd hear 'RELEASE!!!!' and then straight away Souffs would be playing the ball without touching it with their foot or anything (just bouncing out of the tackle and stepping over it, giving them significantly quicker ruck speed & splitting our defence).
- With all Souffs' possession and penalties, they didn't do THAT much damage last night. IMO our defence has improved, but not enough to put us on the front foot. We were constantly playing catch-up footy.
- No disrespect but Souffs' defence wasn't THAT good. We got 3 chances inside their ~30 and we scored off all 3. However, we couldn't get out of our own half! Once we were out is was fine but we couldn't do it! Our attack looked really bad! Manu and Teddy just crabbed along sideways, looking for holes (none) or passes (backwards when there was no gap rather than going straight and hard). Reynolds kicked well... were we unprepared for that? He always kicks well and carries some pretty darn ordinary forwards by doing so. It was as if we hadn't done our homework on his kicking game.
- Our attack looked like a stereotypical '5 and then put up a kick to the left' kinda thing. Latrell played right-wing most of the night and was bloody ordinary at best. But... was our tactic to starve him of space or something? Why did every single kick go to Latrell?!? Yawnion fans woulda had a field day saying 'lol I hate League because all they do is 5 tackles a a bomb'. I jest, but that's literally all we did in attack!!!
- The same combo of Murray/Walker/Cook made way too many easy metres down the middle.
As an uneducated viewer it seemed like:
- We were rushed in defence. I blamed the refs for calling 'HEEEELD' before we'd even touched various players (I swear Crichton was told to release a guy who he had 1 hand on and was still trying to stop). However, it happened in both games. We just didn't seem to be able to stop them from running through the middle of us. It felt like every single time we were tackled they called 'SURRENDER' (and got to grab on for ages) whereas we were being told to get off ASAP, run back and give Souffs some space. IMO something was wrong with our defensive strategy for it to end up like that! Attack too though. Why all the surrender tackles? Did the ref decide we were trying to play the ball quickly by surrendering, so they let Souffs push us back 1m after the tackle & grab on for ~15 seconds because the ref really didn't like our tactic of playing the ball quickly? It seemed hypocritical because Souffs were doing just that... you'd hear 'RELEASE!!!!' and then straight away Souffs would be playing the ball without touching it with their foot or anything (just bouncing out of the tackle and stepping over it, giving them significantly quicker ruck speed & splitting our defence).
- With all Souffs' possession and penalties, they didn't do THAT much damage last night. IMO our defence has improved, but not enough to put us on the front foot. We were constantly playing catch-up footy.
- No disrespect but Souffs' defence wasn't THAT good. We got 3 chances inside their ~30 and we scored off all 3. However, we couldn't get out of our own half! Once we were out is was fine but we couldn't do it! Our attack looked really bad! Manu and Teddy just crabbed along sideways, looking for holes (none) or passes (backwards when there was no gap rather than going straight and hard). Reynolds kicked well... were we unprepared for that? He always kicks well and carries some pretty darn ordinary forwards by doing so. It was as if we hadn't done our homework on his kicking game.
- Our attack looked like a stereotypical '5 and then put up a kick to the left' kinda thing. Latrell played right-wing most of the night and was bloody ordinary at best. But... was our tactic to starve him of space or something? Why did every single kick go to Latrell?!? Yawnion fans woulda had a field day saying 'lol I hate League because all they do is 5 tackles a a bomb'. I jest, but that's literally all we did in attack!!!
- The same combo of Murray/Walker/Cook made way too many easy metres down the middle.
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