Our fifth tackle options : Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:33 pm  

To my mind they have been poor for some time - lacking imagination, often hurried and rarely putting the opposition under pressure. They have a sense of "We've run out of ideas, you have a go".

Are there statistics on how we compare with the rest of the league in this regard?

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:50 pm  

facetious answer no 1: its because we so rarely get to the 5th tackle due to knock ons forward passes crossing etc etc, so a bit more practice and we might just see a bit more variety, that also succeeds in the way you say.

obtuse answer no 1: I would rather see our defence putting the opposition under pressure as it provides the platform to work from

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:39 pm  

what was our set completion rate yesterday? We gave away some daft penalties but can't remember dropping too much ball?

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:30 am  

Not sure whether this is a complaint about what we do on the fifth tackle when we have the ball or the opposition. Either way there is plenty of room for improvement.

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:48 am  

Our fifth tackle option is to kick straight to opposition full back isn't it?

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:43 am  

debaser wrote:

Our fifth tackle option is to kick straight to opposition full back isn't it?

That, or to kick it straight at an advancing defender so it makes easy pickings for the opposition.

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:31 pm  

Think is the least of our problems to be honest.

1st is attitude/aggression: Some players don't seem to care the fact they are the Bulls player. Some are happy to pick up thier pay packet. Purtell looks to have some aggression, but ideally you want it in your forwards. Only Elima shows any bite and fronts up. Rest just get bullied.

The sliding defence is awful and it is so easy to pur right. When the opposition pass the ball, half the team slides, then one player everytime comes in leaving a gap or an overlap. This is mainly down to the coach, but even i could put this right in a training session. It's about trust and i feel a lot of our players don't trust each other to make the one on one tackle, so they come in when they're not meant to be sliding and leave a gap.


Then theres a whole load of other issues. Potter has some work to do.

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:50 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Then theres a whole load of other issues. Potter has some work to do.

If only he had a whole off season to work on all these issues. Oh hang on...

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:38 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

This is mainly down to the coach, but even i could put this right in a training session.

I think you should report to nandos and start right now....problem solved

Re: Our fifth tackle options : Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:52 pm  

They are horrendous, tbh I'm sick to death of seeing weak crossfield chip that ends up defused in goal, if youre going to chip it across field at least do it so it's just outside of the in goal area so there's a bit of pressure. Where's the grubber gone? most difficult one of all to pick up and puts a ton of pressure on and we simply dont utilise it enough.