The Liddle is a poor defender myth has always perplexed me. Ive watched him from day 1 and everytime Ive seen him he looks like an excellent defender. I dont know if its because he is built very slight, or maybe it was purely Robbies groupies (who seemed to hate him for some reason) however I have never seen it.
On Sunday Taupau, Paseka and then Aloiai would all change their line to pick him out, I dont recall him missing a single tackle.
I can’t cope with all these, we’ve got great defenders posts. We totally suck in defense going on recent history. We are standing behind our posts way too many times in games. I don’t think it’s technique or that blokes can’t tackle, it’s been an attitude problem that hopefully we can finally turn around in 2021.
We literally went half a season without keeping a team under 26 points, an Australian record.
You can have a team full of great individual tacklers it means little as what you want is tacklers who work as a team.Unfortunately that is the area we fall down in far too often,hopefully 2021 is the reincarnation of our strong team defence
