glebe tiger
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Support play is basic confidence and positive energy in attack which we lack so much of.
Support Play
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Yes, and also that awareness, positioning, and ever-alert back up play of a Lamb, Hynes, Slater, Cherry Evans type player.
I always felt that we'd be a club where this would a natural go-to play with the ad hoc, in the moment stuff we are renowned for over the years since Benji but ..........
I always felt that we'd be a club where this would a natural go-to play with the ad hoc, in the moment stuff we are renowned for over the years since Benji but ..........
Masterton
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https://www.nrl.com/stats/teams/?competition=111&season=2021&stat=1000015
make of that what you will.
make of that what you will.
jirskyr
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@masterton said in [Support Play](/post/1435314) said:
How do they count supports?
weststigerman
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@jirskyr said in [Support Play](/post/1435640) said:
X2
jirskyr
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@weststigerman said in [Support Play](/post/1435642) said:
If it means standing still and looking at the football, then yeah we are great at it. I don't expect it correlates to offloads, are we comp-leaders in offloads? Sorry I'm too lazy just now to look it up.
Masterton
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@jirskyr said in [Support Play](/post/1435640) said:
I suspect it's primarily when a player is doing a hit up and someone follows him up "in support". I know Laurie has been pretty good at that.
weststigerman
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@jirskyr said in [Support Play](/post/1435643) said:
It's a weird stat because it's very noticeable that we struggle in this area. Maybe it's just when Nofa runs the ball side ways and nearly runs into his teammates we're racking up support numbers.
Interestingly we were 13th in this last year, I don't understand how it's got better. Maybe Laurie, but his support play is not that great either.
The problem with constantly chopping and changing the team is that we've been unable to have the stability to generate a formula that facilitates both individual and team improvement - with the main difficulty being the various ages and experience levels of the playing group.
Their skills and development are all at different stages, and I think it's as simple as our options often look poor when communication is poor because there's been restraint to push them (by our leadership group).
Honestly feels like Madge is primarily focused on values based outcomes for the team - which isn't too bad IMO, as it lessens the pressures and helps instil commitment and teaches them how to self-moderate their performances. It's how they learn to attribute their own input/effort and accept their responsibility in the team. We're just lacking the tough, competitive, win-at-all-costs-type players to drive it home and motivate everyone. Ideally those from the succesful systems.
We really do have a young playing and leadership group and it's not surprising we're unable to capitalise on all opportunities or perform consistently when it requires such a concerted effort, from a playing group with some diverse capabilities.
Their skills and development are all at different stages, and I think it's as simple as our options often look poor when communication is poor because there's been restraint to push them (by our leadership group).
Honestly feels like Madge is primarily focused on values based outcomes for the team - which isn't too bad IMO, as it lessens the pressures and helps instil commitment and teaches them how to self-moderate their performances. It's how they learn to attribute their own input/effort and accept their responsibility in the team. We're just lacking the tough, competitive, win-at-all-costs-type players to drive it home and motivate everyone. Ideally those from the succesful systems.
We really do have a young playing and leadership group and it's not surprising we're unable to capitalise on all opportunities or perform consistently when it requires such a concerted effort, from a playing group with some diverse capabilities.
Tragic_Tiger_Fan
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We're a lazy team off the ball, that's why we don't convert opportunities and furthermore get found out in defence.
