: Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:07 pm
Play any half back you want, if they don't have any options with ball in hand their play is predictable and easy to read.
Any half back, no matter how good needs the players outside him to offer him plenty of options. We as a team haven't done this in years, last year even someone with the vision and class that Barrett had was made to look ordinary.
How people still blame the halves is beyond me, they're only as good as the team they play in, and without a packing making yards, and players offering options and creating doubt as to who's getting the ball, a half backs job is made 10 times harder.
If people think dropping a young half back into that cauldron of sh|t and then expect him to shine is a wise thing to do, well....
Noble is taking good players in, and wasting them with his negative approach to the game. We stand so flat at times we've no chance of breaking the line, and people who receive the ball receive it stood still. It's pathetic to watch, and it amazes me to think he still thinks it's the way to win games. Granted we got to 2 semi's, but I never thought we'd beat either Saints or Leeds when it really matters with the game-plan we stick to.
To break down good defences you need variation, you need ideas, and as a team we offer no variation and a distinct lack of ideas. For that I blame the coaching.
