Joined: Oct 15 2008 Posts: 1944 Location: east hull
why is it we dont/cant offload or stop offloads? surely we must work on this in training?
why dont we have any set moves?
why do we just run a big froward up the middle all the time? no support players, no angles ran, nothing to make the opposition think.
We are so predictable this season, we just drive down the middle all the time, theres no flair, nothing expansive at all. The only times we got the ball wide at speed we scored through Colbon and Webster, but that was the only times we got any quick ball out wide. Wakey offloaded at will last night, we never even tried too. What does Morgan have them do at training?
and my final thoughts, what do Morgans half time talks go like? He should have had the players coming out ready to throw the kitchen sink at Wakey 2nd half, instead they came out asleep. The same thing with Hudds this season, Battered first half so you would have thought he would have given them the Fergie hair dryer treatment, but no they come out and play just as bad.
Post subject: Re: off loads, set plays, 2nd phase,
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:55 am
barham red
Player Coach
Joined: Jul 12 2007 Posts: 5410
We've now got watts who does off load, problem being no one anticipates it, no runners on the shoulder of ball carriers.
The biggest criticism I have is that against saints last week they were having a torrid time on their right hand side in the 1st half, hence a colbon hat trick, yet we then gave up the tactic of attacking their and went down our right for the rest of the game.
Last week wakey looked paper thin on their right, start of last night we targetted this, colbon scores and we get a number of breaks down there. Then we completely ignore this and wither go down the middle or to our right!!
It's almost like we have a cunning plan that says we'll attack their strongest point, they'll never expect that, even on the 50th attempt we do the same working on the principle they'll never expect us to do it again.
Surely the coach and players do their homework on the oppo and see these flaws, most of us can see it, why don't they.
Post subject: Re: off loads, set plays, 2nd phase,
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:59 pm
Ron Weasley
Player Coach
Joined: Apr 04 2007 Posts: 2382
I've got a feeling JM's going with a safety first approach this season. It might be because he feels other sides have strengthened more than we have, or it might be because we had such a poor pre-season and it's given him the jitters.
Problem is, if you want to play one-man rugby, you need to be good at it, and I don't actually think it suits us or the players we have. The squad is better suited to a passing game. We've got good support runners and good ball handlers.
IMHO we would've cast aside both saints and wakey convincingly if we'd had a bit more belief in our own ability and played to our strengths. Both where there for the taking and whilst we scraped it against saints, we bottled it last night.
Post subject: Re: off loads, set plays, 2nd phase,
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:02 pm
Jake the Peg
International Chairman
Joined: Mar 22 2007 Posts: 30473
roversmad wrote:But that doesn't really answer the question does it?
I was merely pointing out that you can't be that bright if you ask me if there's anything I don't know as by implication I won't know about it if there is so my answer will always be no
Post subject: Re: off loads, set plays, 2nd phase,
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:03 pm
roversmad
Player Coach
Joined: May 24 2007 Posts: 7504 Location: East Stand
Jake the Peg wrote:I was merely pointing out that you can't be that bright if you ask me if there's anything I don't know as by implication I won't know about it if there is so my answer will always be no
Oh right........you must just come across as a know-all then.
Did you get rid of all the voices in your head? Do you now miss them and the things that they said?
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