Defence in the last 20 minutes of games

[ball_main]

From the 23 tries scored against us this season, almost half (11) have been scored in the last 20 minutes. Could this be us getting tired or are we leaving the wrong payers off. For and against could play and a big part later in the season. In saying that, our defence seems to have a structure and aggression this year. Well Done to kidwell. I can't believe we kept employing touch Simmons for do long

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[Black_n_White]

Big difference between losing focus at the back end of games conceding points, and injuries forcing positional changes or leaving us no fit players on the bench to substitue.

 

[Cosimo_Zaretti]

I'd be interested to see the stats for other clubs on that one, I suspect every team concedes more points at the back end.

 

[Demonborger]

1\. Vs St George. We lost Fulton who is a key defender.
2\. Vs Titans. We lost Lawrence.
3\. Vs Souths. We lost Fulton, Simona.
4\. Vs Warriors. We lost Patterson, Tedesco and Sue. Richards was incapacitated.
5\. Vs Manly. We lost Tedesco, Ava. Simona lost effectiveness also towards the end.
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I'm probably leaving a couple of injuries out too…

Our bench is winning games for us, but its composition doesn't carry a back who could slot in, if we lost an outside back.

Although even if we did, none of our makeshift backs are high quality defenders able to slot in anywhere. They usually have a positional caveat to be of an acceptable level in defence.

 

[jirskyr]

Big difference between losing focus at the back end of games conceding points, and injuries forcing positional changes or leaving us no fit players on the bench to substitue.

I think injuries play the biggest part, players in unfamiliar defensive patterns. I'd like to see the stats for the whole comp, but certainly we've leaked points quite badly due to injury-forced reshuffles.

Other thing to keep in mind is that teams substantially behind on the scoreboard will chance their hand towards the end of the match. Maybe I am biased but we seem quite bad for letting fluke tries in. We've held substantial leads against Souths, Titans, Manly this year.