anybody else absolutely fed up with sneyds kick off/restarts?
same kick off everytime going to the same player, do we not have any other player who can kick off, maybe vary it, a long grubber, high like pat richards?
last night every kick landed safely in browns arms
I mentioned this last year as well. Whilst I agree that in isolation kick offs aren't one of the key issues, I think they are symptomatic of our total lack of creative thought and imagination. We are utterly brain dead when it comes to creativity and thinking outside the box.
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andymacca wrote:I mentioned this last year as well. Whilst I agree that in isolation kick offs aren't one of the key issues, I think they are symptomatic of our total lack of creative thought and imagination. We are utterly brain dead when it comes to creativity and thinking outside the box.
Someone ought to dust down an old VT of Steve Evans in the 80's with his quick 10m kick offs and chase. It was only used occasionally, normally when chasing a game, but at least it was different, innovative and kept the opposition on their toes. When successful it provided an instant attacking position.
If called correctly, even if the ball is not recovered, a good chase would result in a field position not too disimilar to what returned from our current kick off routine.
Forgive me joining in on your board but I've always thought kick offs should be aimed at the posts just to create an element of doubt in the catchers mind.
Aren't our kick offs much the same as the rest of SL? We stack up defence on the side we're kicking to and the only aim is to restrict the ground the opposition makes. Not really a biggie in the grand scheme of things
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 25964 Location: Back in Hull.
Agree with Jake, much bigger things to worry about, our defence in the oppositions half is good and teams generally struggle to make yards against us, unfortunately we tend to kind silly penalties away and once the teams get near our line we just seem to crumble.
I would go so far as to say that our defence this season on our line is as bad as I remember it.
Whilst their are indeed much bigger things to worry about it's all about marginal gains. All the small things add up to a lot. Drilling the ball to try force a drop out is done by Brough I think, Paul Cooke once drilled a kick off deliberately at a Hull player on the 10m line from a restart at MM and got the ball back. Kicking it away from the ball handler and big prop or at least mixing it up should be the bare minimum. It's lazy what Sneyd does and has all the signs of another aspect of what we don't do as a club...getting the basics right and/or improving on them.
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