wefewee! wrote:
The only thing that stopped us winning last night was the inability to score. We never seemed to have trouble stopping their attacks, 3 of their tries were handed to them, 1 was a sensational individual effort and the other was from a kick.
All we needed was some decent attacking moves down their end, instead of trying to rely on Manu, Yeaman and Briscoe individual efforts.
Totally agree.
(I'm not saying we lost because of the referee, I just hate poor decisions, especially by the VR!)
Look at our attack. It's either a pop from the DH, face ball, or pop and drop. That literally is the extent of our play. Occasionally we'll move the ball wide to Manu/Yeaman/Briscoe to do something
individual (and I stress that word). if Manu bursts his way through, it's not good team work. It's exploiting one man's good work.
Look at Wigan, who by any stretch weren't that good on Friday. They Often do two wedge balls straight off the ruck, so that's two dummy runners going through (who not only lock up some defenders, but we noticed actually obstruct them sliding, but that's another story!), then may pass a third one on the end. That's why they can pass it out wide so quickly, and that's why they always seem to find overlaps. There moves demand defenders make decisions all the time (often the wrong ones) whereas ours don't. It's not that our players can't physically do it, they just don't know how. They aren't getting taught good tactics, and until they are we will always be this boring (but strong) team with a few decent individuals in.