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SwervinMervin said:
I’m no coach or expert, but to my untrained eye the team seems to use the same tactics and game plan every week regardless of who we are playing. I get that all teams have a style and an overall template for how they want to play, but surely the game plan needs to adapt each week based on breaking down your opposition, targeting their weak spots and covering ours. Is Benj the tactical gameplan mastermind? He probably wasn’t as a player. He was an eyes up, brilliant instinctive guy who could do things and see things that most players just can’t. We don’t have the most talented squad, nor much depth, so we only way we consistently beat the better rosters is to out-gameplan them and have the players drilled enough to execute. We need a tactical, gameplan guru as an assistant coach. Someone like Brian Smith was, or Warren Ryan was for example.
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Yeah you're right, the main coach is more a of a man manager, the ability to have everyone on board and ready to fire. I think Benji has that ability.

However, is John Morris a next level thinker?
 
Tucker said:
Yes but you may live to regret that decision...Rangerovers have design faults.
We didnt need to punt Klemmer, he was still putting out decent numbers and he in conjunction with May, Pole, Hunt and Twal would have shored up the middle more than it is.
Anyway, it is what it is, we are still light on in both the front and backrow as we head into the toughest part of the draw for us. They need help.
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I used to think exactly like you. We needed Klemmer and with Pole out could definately use him.

But I get it now. Klemmer really did not vibe with how Benji wanted our forwards to go. The slow play the ball, the lack of pace... It's a shame because as a player I would have liked to seen Klemmer work for us. It wasn't working.

Do we need Klemmer now? Ofcourse. It's not is he better then Pole/May/Hunt/Twal... It's that he is greater then the next player up when one of those 4 are injured!


Melbourne worked out Benji's game and worked out we were light in the middle. They did us right. Marshall's approach worked though for awhile and I get the direction he wants the forwards to go in.

P.S: Usual rant how we don't need more Depth in our backs. We just need some talent!
 
Kelce68 said:
You're very hung up on the order of things. I understand why, on the surface, replacements for things generally come in chronological order.

However, the world is riddled with examples of where replacements are not acquired following, but rather prior, or not acquired at, as they are promoted from within. The car example is a prime example.

Also, in this context, someone can be signed on as an addition to an incumbent player, but, over time, can become the replacement to that player if the landscape changes.

Lachlan Galvin hasn't been signed as the replacement for Sexton. Yet, if Sexton does indeed leave and the Dogs decide that Galvin is best played at halfback, he will effectively become the replacement for Sexton.

If you want to get REALLY technical:

May replaced Stef in the starting side.
Pole replaced Klemmer in starting side.
Hunt replaced Pole on the bench.

Or.

May replaced Stef in the starting side.
Pole replaced Klemmer in starting side.
Twal replaced Pole at 13.
Hunt replaced Twal on the bench.

But, to simplify it, using language that the forum would generally use; two outgoing props in the 17 were replaced by two incoming props in the 17.

Anyway. This discussion is dead now.
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I actually see it slightly differently now...

It's a forward pack harmony.

Twal in some ways replaced Klemmer and the role Twal used to play off the bench is what Hunt replaced in us. It's a very different pack, much faster, but clearly lacking some grunt.

I really hope we have someone extra-ordinary lined up. Leniu, Haas (dreaming), Kikau, etc
 
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