He's been trying to instill it all year.
A conservative first 20, then stick in the game and win late.
It's a shithouse game plan and it hasn't been adapted at all over the course of the season.
It doesn't play to our strengths and there appears to be no effort put into the 1%ers that make that game plan successful.
Basic shit like line speed, ball runners receiving the ball at the advantage line, kick pressure, competing on kicks, passes out in front, operating at speed, etc, just isn't there.
Penrith did everything 10% better last night and it blew the game wide open.
Benji can recruit and can get the dressing room showing up for him. But the cookie-cutter, generic game plans that look like they've been torn out of the play book that Melbourne donated to Vinnies in 2019 is some of the most amateur shit I've seen.
They've actually started to build a squad and have actual threats on the park, but they don't use any of them.
Latu and Luai's running games have disappeared. What exactly has the Doueihi experiment achieved? Wingers shifting sides. Poor, predictable selections. No competing on high kicks even in the opposition half. No protection for the kickers. Everything at half pace.
The biggest challenge in this rebuild was the squad. That has finally started to improve.
The next will be the actual coaching.
I hope for the love of God that Richo has told Benji behind closed doors that he has a free swing the back end of this year to get combinations right long term ahead of 26, because, if not, these crack-addict selections and positional switches and redundant, derivative, half-assed plays are a ticket to nowhere.
