Defence

[snowleopard]

A lot of it is confidence

Half the team turn left or right in the defensive line and think " I don't have much faith in you"

It will only improve when they put themselves on the line and make the defence stronger and put the pressure on every team ,every set of six Our forwards should use the Manly forward pack as a guide v Brisbane

Hunt as a pack boys Multi Bodies in tackles

Will take a while to fix , but if they all show attitude and accountability in their own jobs things WILL improve (Love that word accountability, my staff hate it )

Yep Happy..spot on..I reckon Potter should show them tapes of when we defensively 'on' in the last couple of years and they will see that although we lacked size we made up for it by 'gang tackling' and this gave us the 'confidence' we needed to win. The pundits say that sport at the elite level is 80% mental and IMO this is what we lack the most at the moment

 

[tig_prmz]

True, very true. But i was aiming to make my post about defence and analysing it and seeing how we can do better. **Sure, we lost the ruck but how did we respond to it defensively?**

We can also relate everything back to sheens poor purchasing, or discord on the board but that's not what the post is about :slight_smile:

:wtf

getting missed % tackle is ridiculous. are you trying to say we made more tackles than we missed, so we responded OK to losing the ruck? at the end of the day we missed 30 or 40 (dont rem) tackles. just coz we were forced to make more tackles doesnt excuse that we missed that many tackles.

 

[pHyR3]

What? I'm not saying the ruck is not important ITS CRUCIAL! But I wanted to talk about our DEFENCE apart from the rucking. How our tackling was, how our defensive structure was. I could make a thread about attack too, then would you say, oh but we got driven through the middle, losing the ruck and therefore giving stupid penalities which meant we never got the ball?

I have nothing to say about the ruck other than it was bad, so i wanted to talk about something that i did have an opinion on.

And I never said that our defense was great or even goood on monday. I said it was something that CAN be fixed in due course. I hope that will be 4-5 rounds but it could take all season, who knows.

Why doesn't making more tackles excuse more missed tackles? Missing 30 tackles while making 1000 is a lot better than missing 15 but only making 200.

 

[tig_prmz]

we missed 30 or 40 tackles in ONE game. in 80 minutes.

that's all that counts.