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He needs a 5 metre tether to the sideline.
Where does that leave the edge second rower right side half and right centre…
Starts in the middle and hasn't been addressed even switching Elijah Taylor there..
I don't understand why some people still struggle with this? That first Manly try was a simple overlap. Nofo followed Marsters in and Wright went over in the corner. Nofo stays on him and the centre goes through untouched.
Sure, Nofo is prone to rushing in every now and then, but I'd say most of the time he's either following his man in or holding his line and getting caught in a two on one because the people inside him have made the wrong decision.
For the exact same reason JAC and Koro look like world-beaters at Melbourne, if Nofo played outside Chambers he'd be an Origin rep (assuming Bellamy also taught him to catch).
I don't really agree with this. The first Manly try was the Lane stroll-through, thanks Luke Brooks, I assume you mean instead the first Wright try?
But more than this, EVERY backline move where a set attack brings in the fullback is an overlap. You have to be able to defend overlaps. No, we don't do a great job on either edge but at least the LHS scrambles and usually slides, they did a fairly good job yesterday with Frozone and MWZ not being an experienced combination. And the LHS has to contend with the forwards traffic directed at Brooks, and for most of the season also the inexperienced decision-making of Suli, so it's not as if they are a rock-solid unit.
But for the RHS, Lolohea is neither ineffective nor slow. Marsters is not experienced but he's also not caught out anything like MCK tended to be. Nofo just can't help himself, he over-reads the play and I understand what he's doing and why he's doing it, but he's over committing - oppositions know and target that relentlessly. He's 5 ft nothing and they can effectively loop pass over his head, he turns like the Queen Mary and can't affect cover tackles.
Nofo should be holding his wing until Marsters is truly beaten on the outside, then coming in, not coming in just because Marsters has a player on his outside shoulder. The opposition are always working to the outside shoulder, it's a fact of the game, and they want you to come in because it's harder for the cover to reach the winger. For God's sake Nofo trust your centre to turn and chase.
And maybe it does all stem from the middle, maybe the ripples of mistakes from the centre become tsunamis out wide, but what I know is the opposition definitely DOES score by running second-man to our RHS, they don't crash through Marsters or Taylor as often as they score in the corner. When you are a winger and you are fairly regularly coming up with thin air, i.e. you don't affect any sort of tackle whatsoever, and everyone notices, you are doing something wrong.
