2013 and the changing pattern of Wests Tigers scoring plays

[TIGER]

So far these are the tries we have scored this year…
Round 1 v Newcastle
Try 1 = Farah to Blair 5 meters out.
Try 2 = Marshal to Moltzen 3 meters out.

Round 2 v Penrith
Try 1 = Farah to Marshal 2 meters out.
Try 2 = Miller individual effort from 8 meters out.
Try 3 = Farah to Woods 3 meters out.
Try 4 = Farah to Woods 5 meters out.
Try 5 = Benji attacking kick for Koro try from 12 meters out.

Round 3 v Parramatta
Try 1 = Marshal to Lawrence 8 meters out.
Try 2 = Farah to Lawrence 5 meters out.
Try 3 = Ashford scores from 5 meters out.
Try 4 = Marshal catches Parra with pants down and runs 70 meters
Try 5 = Moltzen scores opportunistic try from Parras in goal area.

Round 4 v Manly
No tries.

It seems weird that apart from Marshals cheeky try we haven't run the ball from more than 10 meters out for a score. Even last year we were scoring from 40 plus meters but this year we are really struggling to score at all. Our defence has always been atrocious but at least we could rely on the fact that our attack was potent from anywhere. I hope our main men regain their confidence soon as we are looking just as poor with the ball as we usually do without it. Anyway thought this was an interesting stat.

I mentioned the same thing in a thread after the Penrith game. All of our tries have come from crashing across from close range and most of them from pretty weak defence IMO. We haven't really created any points from a well executed play in fact I can't recall seeing a well executed play.
We're extremely lucky to have 4 points I believe we were pretty much handed both games, it wasn't so much us winning those games but more them losing.

 

[Shooshmeister]

I mentioned the same thing in a thread after the Penrith game. All of our tries have come from crashing across from close range and most of them from pretty weak defence IMO. We haven't really created any points from a well executed play in fact I can't recall seeing a well executed play.
We're extremely lucky to have 4 points I believe we were pretty much handed both games, it wasn't so much us winning those games but more them losing.

I agree, haven't seen too many line breaks, line running resulting in tries, set plays that actually work in the current team. I want to be confident, but I still need to be convinced.