What many don’t seem to want to understand is we don’t have enough players who can make good hard yardage out of our own danger zone and we don’t have enough players who regularly make tackle breaks and genuinely worry the opposition when we have the ball.
Our defence will never be any good until we get this right and have the right balance of players who can get the job done on a regular basis.
Defence is a mindset and is much easier when the players are confident good defending will be rewarded with good field position and good attacking play that leads to points scored.
Our general attacking play has got better throughout the season, but winning the yardage battle particularly in the first half has been very rare and we have got worse at making the hard yards out of our danger zone.
Not enough players with the required size & aggression or explosive speed to make the hard yards out of our danger zone.
Not enough hard running and tackle busting ability on our edges, namely edge back row and centres.
Not enough hard ball running, physical dominance or offloads from our middles.
Not near enough line speed or hard hitting defence from our players 1-17.
Not enough attacking involvement or x factor from our fullback.
Poor kicking game and poor kick chase, in particular far too many uncontested high balls.
Lack of overall X factor and running threat from our halves, although Galvin has asked our opponents plenty of questions and definitely gets a pass mark for one so young, he needs assistance from his halves partner. Latu started to show signs of his confident self last night which was great to see.
