Quote ="Biff Tannen"We didn't do too badly against the great melbourne and Manly sides, a win and a reasonably close loss to both. This Souths side are probably better than both of them though imo.Monster pack, smart halves and devastating three quarters.Glenn Stewart is a great replacement for ">Sam.'" The final score of the loss to Manly looked close (28-20) but we were 26-4 with 15 mins to go and then scored with the last play to get it up to 20. We were never really in that game.

Quote ="Biff Tannen"We didn't do too badly against the great melbourne and Manly sides, a win and a reasonably close loss to both. This Souths side are probably better than both of them though imo.Monster pack, smart halves and devastating three quarters.Glenn Stewart is a great replacement for ">Sam.'" The final score of the loss to Manly looked close (28-20) but we were 26-4 with 15 mins to go and then scored with the last play to get it up to 20. We were never really in that game.

Also if NRL sides get to within 40 yards out on the last tackle they feel like they're in position for an attacking kick. In SL it's more like 20.

But you are talking about adding things to their game that aren't missing. They aren't missing because they aren't needed. They aren't needed because there are easier ways to the line

Quote ="Andy Gilder"Under a well-placed kick with a well-timed chase, a defender is next to helpless unless he's either got a significant height advantage or gets a lot of (probably illegal) help from players on his inside. He's invariably going from at or close to a standing start against players arriving at full speed. When Hall starts putting down kicks with nobody around him, I'll start to worry. Getting out jumped as a defender is just one of those things you can't usually do much about. At least not having Burrow on the field means teams don't have a weak target to aim at by dropping cross-field kicks onto his head, and forcing the likes of Moon and Hallim to come in covering for ">him.'" I agree with that entirely. I think Hall is fine under the bomb, A good kick puts the attacking player favourite to get something out of it. Sometimes you are beaten by just good play.

Quote ="Andy Gilder"Under a well-placed kick with a well-timed chase, a defender is next to helpless unless he's either got a significant height advantage or gets a lot of (probably illegal) help from players on his inside. He's invariably going from at or close to a standing start against players arriving at full speed. When Hall starts putting down kicks with nobody around him, I'll start to worry. Getting out jumped as a defender is just one of those things you can't usually do much about. At least not having Burrow on the field means teams don't have a weak target to aim at by dropping cross-field kicks onto his head, and forcing the likes of Moon and Hallim to come in covering for ">him.'" I agree with that entirely. I think Hall is fine under the bomb, A good kick puts the attacking player favourite to get something out of it. Sometimes you are beaten by just good play.

Quote ="SmokeyTA"I agree with that entirely. I think Hall is fine under the bomb, A good kick puts the attacking player favourite to get something out of it. Sometimes you are beaten by just good ">play.'" Agree. And for all the talk about Hall's ability at catching and better protection/blocking around him......the best way to deal with a well placed kick is to prevent it being well placed in the first place and putting more pressure on the kicker so that he doesn't have time to pick his spot that'll make life really difficult for the defending winger.

Quote ="SmokeyTA"I agree with that entirely. I think Hall is fine under the bomb, A good kick puts the attacking player favourite to get something out of it. Sometimes you are beaten by just good ">play.'" Agree. And for all the talk about Hall's ability at catching and better protection/blocking around him......the best way to deal with a well placed kick is to prevent it being well placed in the first place and putting more pressure on the kicker so that he doesn't have time to pick his spot that'll make life really difficult for the defending winger.

Thought we defended kicks pretty well last night. Pressure was on the kicker quite often, and the catcher was guarded well too