Saddened! wrote:
Our entire gameplan seems the same, it's not like the attack is any better organised. We were a farce in attack against Leeds. On the rare occasion we got ball in their 20 we wasted 3 tackles with one out runs by non threatening players, then attempted to throw it wide in one direction in the vain hope that there would be an overlap, more often than not the superior line speed meaning we were stopped mid flow and knocked on or were tackled.
The coaching side seems to be a big problem in general. I still don't have a clue what type of team Brown is trying to make us. Are we going for the bish-bash-bosh approach of the early SL Bulls, the scintilating attacking of our SL glory days, the physical approach ala Maguire/Wane era Wigan or the more regimented NRL style percentage play? We don't seem to do any of them and it all comes back to a lack of desire, commitment and focus for me, which ultimately is Brown's fault.
At times this year we've looked clinical in attack when bringing lomax into play out wide. Even in the first half against Wigan we opened them up with ease.
It just seems like we can't do it often enough and good enough. It's clear we are moving the ball wide this year compared to recent years as Walsh seems to have every kick off the touch line and swift and Tommy are scoring.
If you take Walsh and lomax out of our team, we'd struggle to score. If Walsh doesn't play to his ability we look lost. That indicates what we all know, we need a stand off! Travis Burns would be ideal IMO.
If the forwards can move us up field and we get Walsh and lomax firing again, I'm pretty sure we will put points on the board but at the moment we can get go forward so our attack is starting to deep.
We actually missed Hohaia against Leeds. He's a threat and teams stand off him and we missed his defence.
Manu has been a very very big loss. He wasn't playing to well but we have really missed him. He makes meters, busts tackles, can off load and he's a proper player and very solid.
