Our kicking game

[softlaw]

One thing the kicking game is trying to do is maximise the time the ball is in-play. Minimal scrums and set starts, and force their fullback/ wingers to run it straight back into a decent straight chase line.
Then we back our fitness in the last 20.

You could see how absolutely exhausted Parra were for the whole last 30 and the type of kicks I think had a lot to do with that.

Would be good if they always landed on their 10 though rather than their 20 and 30.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Farah needs to take some ownership. Its a big ask to put it all on 2 kids who have played 40 games between them

 

[southerntiger]

The bombs worked. May not be pretty but we constantly had them carting out from their 15\. Its clearly tactical and has been all year.

Supercoach strikes again

Conceded one try against an attack that carved up the premiers last week.

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[strrretch]

One thing the kicking game is trying to do is maximise the time the ball is in-play. Minimal scrums and set starts, and force their fullback/ wingers to run it straight back into a decent straight chase line.
Then we back our fitness in the last 20.

You could see how absolutely exhausted Parra were for the whole last 30 and the type of kicks I think had a lot to do with that.

Would be good if they always landed on their 10 though rather than their 20 and 30.

Yeah, was watching , thinking why are they doing these seemingly ineffective kicks? Did not seem to put too much pressure on the catcher at all. Hoping for a mistake?
But maybe there is some logic behind their approach like you say

 

[LCA]

Drinkwater is required for his kicking game but who do we drop. Unless Moses to centre and Drinkwater to five eight and Lawrence to bench.

Why would you change a winning team?

Wouldn't see a change coming myself.

What happened to patience?

What happened to reality?

Why wait till next year when the team can be strengthened now?

Moses is not NRL standard at the moment. It's time to send both he and Lawrence to NSW Cup despite the fact that we won today.

 

[Guest]

The mid field bombs are a definite tactic from Taylor. At gives our kick chase a better chance of coming up with a solid tackle on the first play. Our short kicking game was off today though. When Brooks and Moses are on song, they can thread the ball through very well.

It's clear this new structure is taking some time to adapt to. It's not particularly exciting at the moment, although we did score some good tries today.

 

[shane2801]

The game has become 80 minutes of boring footy…Taylor was ecstatic with our game today....reckons its the best game we have played all year....to me it was a yawn-athon...both sides just carting it up for 5 and bombing on the 6th.....

100% correct. I hate to say it but it has become as boring as soccer…almost. I can't watch a game now without monetary involvement these days.

 

[hobbo]

The game has become 80 minutes of boring footy…Taylor was ecstatic with our game today....reckons its the best game we have played all year....to me it was a yawn-athon...both sides just carting it up for 5 and bombing on the 6th.....

100% correct. I hate to say it but it has become as boring as soccer…almost. I can't watch a game now without monetary involvement these days.

Hope you're winning $$ ??

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[LCA]

The mid field bombs are a definite tactic from Taylor. At gives our kick chase a better chance of coming up with a solid tackle on the first play. Our short kicking game was off today though. When Brooks and Moses are on song, they can thread the ball through very well.

It's clear this new structure is taking some time to adapt to. It's not particularly exciting at the moment, although we did score some good tries today.

I respect your analysis Willow, but I am not convinced it is a tactic of Taylor's. And, if it is, I hope we adapt to it faster than opposition coaches do. Or, we're in deep trouble.

 

[shane2801]

The game has become 80 minutes of boring footy…Taylor was ecstatic with our game today....reckons its the best game we have played all year....to me it was a yawn-athon...both sides just carting it up for 5 and bombing on the 6th.....

100% correct. I hate to say it but it has become as boring as soccer…almost. I can't watch a game now without monetary involvement these days.

Hope you're winning $$ ??

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No.

 

[the_third]

If we keep winning I don't care if it's boring. Seem is play plenty of good footy and lose. This is much better

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[Coastie_Tiger]

It is definitely a tactic the midfield bombs I don't necessarily have an issue with it as long as the chase with some sort of pressure on the catcher is there. I don't think that is up to standard yet but our short kicking game today and good parts of the season so far is atrocious.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

If we keep winning I don't care if it's boring. Seem is play plenty of good footy and lose. This is much better

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This x1000.

However, our kicking game is diabolical.

 

[happy_tiger]

As I said in the live game thread , it is almost as if we are using NFL tactics and kicking for maximum hang time to give us time to put pressure on the kick return

If we have reached the half way we always use the same style kick

 

[jirskyr]

Plenty of teams going with this tactic, though I am not exactly sure why. Both Sharks / Roosters and Raiders / Manly games were full of midfield bombs.

I would always have thought finding the grass was the best kicking tactic, especially against a large back 3 like Parra who won't want to chase all day.

But clear as day this is a coach decision, because we've gone bomb 75% of set completions in their half.

 

[Tigerdave]

The kicking game has seemingly been off, but it does look pretty deliberate. Just as long as we keep winning, although a bad kicking game can make that harder than necessary.

 

[mctiger]

Our kicking game has been terrible for years. Short kicks are too long and long kicks are too short. I could almost understand the bombs today to Hopoate given how bad he was the week before against Souths. Our grubbers to the in goal are a lottery but we're no different with marshal. In saying all that I think brooks will improve.

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[BlackandGoldForever]

Never had a good kicking game since Scott Prince left

 

[tiger_pom]

The fact that we won I think sugar-coats a pretty poor attacking display.For seventy minutes we created very little and will need a big improvement for the rest of the season.

 

[Tigerdon]

I think Patty did put up one "torpedo bomb". Where Hopper spilt it as it drifted away from him. After this we had a repeat set and Parra started to look tired. We were the team that came home the strongest. With junior halves I can see why JT is doing it at the start of the season. However I hope it's not a lone term game plan.
We should have attacked their centers. As they did have any. Even Sandow was forced to defend in the centre. The one time we did we scored.

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