I read all these threads on here with people blaming coaching, various individuals and every thing else.
As far as Im concerned we have played like the roster we have, we have a young inexperienced side that has shown all sorts of glimpses of their talent but have at other times been disappointing
IMO this is to be expected from this sort of side, most young players have mental lapses, switch off, over play their hand, get lazy off the ball. Most of our guys are doing this as often in line with normal young blokes, but instead of having 1,2 or 3 young blokes we have 8 or 9.
Fans generally love blokes like Gavet, Taupau and Akoula who charge into the line with vigour, but these same blokes are making more errors than an experienced player would and often lose the tackle in both attack and defence, and dont always do the work of the ball with decoys and marking blind sides and inside balls, this hurts us.
Ava bends the line, but loses concentration in defence and forgets to chase from marker alot. Not surprising for a bloke who has played only 20 first grade games, and completely normal.
Often we forget to run decoys properly and pay the price with outside man being heavily marked afterwards. Most our young blokes do this from time to time.
Guys like Moses and Brooks look like future stars, but like most young players miss tackles, go for the big play more than they should.
All rookies make rookie mistakes, and our guys are playing exactly like guys who have so few games and we are getting the inconsistency you'd expect from such a young team.
I think people severely underestimate the gap between NRL and lower grades and the average fan often underestimates the importance alot of aspects of the game that aren't so glamorous, things like work off the ball in attack and defence, sticking to systems, building pressure, winning the tackle. These are the areas where kids are generally weaker.
As far as Im concerned we have played like the roster we have, we have a young inexperienced side that has shown all sorts of glimpses of their talent but have at other times been disappointing
IMO this is to be expected from this sort of side, most young players have mental lapses, switch off, over play their hand, get lazy off the ball. Most of our guys are doing this as often in line with normal young blokes, but instead of having 1,2 or 3 young blokes we have 8 or 9.
Fans generally love blokes like Gavet, Taupau and Akoula who charge into the line with vigour, but these same blokes are making more errors than an experienced player would and often lose the tackle in both attack and defence, and dont always do the work of the ball with decoys and marking blind sides and inside balls, this hurts us.
Ava bends the line, but loses concentration in defence and forgets to chase from marker alot. Not surprising for a bloke who has played only 20 first grade games, and completely normal.
Often we forget to run decoys properly and pay the price with outside man being heavily marked afterwards. Most our young blokes do this from time to time.
Guys like Moses and Brooks look like future stars, but like most young players miss tackles, go for the big play more than they should.
All rookies make rookie mistakes, and our guys are playing exactly like guys who have so few games and we are getting the inconsistency you'd expect from such a young team.
I think people severely underestimate the gap between NRL and lower grades and the average fan often underestimates the importance alot of aspects of the game that aren't so glamorous, things like work off the ball in attack and defence, sticking to systems, building pressure, winning the tackle. These are the areas where kids are generally weaker.
