salford4life wrote:
Been watching salford for over 10 years now and was thinking we have had many different coaches in the last 10 years but the style in which we play has never really changed maybe the odd little thing changed i.e fitz running on the ball close to the line when we had Karl in charge but other than that we have always played down the middle , one man rugby that sort of thing why has it never really changed with so many coaches.
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Tried to start a thread partly based on this but it was of a rant over Friday nights result, and nobody responded.
Anyway if I cast my mind back to the Peter Edwards era. I seem to recall the ball moving further away from the playball than it does right now, and has done for the last ten years.
I was also watching the famous Salford/Wigan game on You-Tube the other day and although it wasn't the best quality picture in the world we seemed to have a scrum half running with the ball, using dummy runners amd passing the ball to players running from deep. I was actually impressed by Scott Naylor's ability to run from deep.
All a different era I know, but the basics remain the same. Run from deep, use the decoy runners and don't drop the sodding ball. I think alot of it was down to the skill of Mark Lee and his ability to read the game.
It's not players understanding of the game that's in question, it's their ability to do it super league level. The halfbacks and the rest of the team alike need to read the game quicker.
However, I can't recall if Mark Lee has been in the coaching setup before, but Shaun McRae clearly needs a number 2, and he could play the game well and intelligently.
