Attacking options!!!! : Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:45 pm  

Why as a team are we so poor in attack???? We have no idea's near the line 34 sets near saints line no try or even looking like getting one. Even with Barrett for the past 2 seasons our attack and poits for have been poor.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:57 pm  

Going to get ripped for this but the lack of coaching attacking options cost us the game tonight. You cannot expect to do bugger all and turn it on for the big games and expect to win.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:58 pm  

hard to say mate but with tonights performance and barrett pulling the string would have been a different result.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:00 pm  

loyalwiganer wrote:

hard to say mate but with tonights performance and barrett pulling the string would have been a different result.

I know we didn't expect Barrett to go, but our final ball whether it be the 4th or 5th tackle is just crap.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:03 pm  

jonh wrote:

Going to get ripped for this but the lack of coaching attacking options cost us the game tonight. You cannot expect to do bugger all and turn it on for the big games and expect to win.

We were awesome in defence for the most, going forward we were ok - better than our average - we tried plenty of options in attack near their line - but there aren't many teams could have cracked that defence. They were on us in an instant and covering our options.

But that said, unless we come up with players and plays that can break them down we're not looking at trophies for a while yet.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:03 pm  

You can't help but feel theres a good side in there somewhere waiting to come out but it's being held back by our tatics.

I'm not saying it's time to part company with Noble but i really do think Lenagan needs to be looking all over the shop to see if theres anybody available to take us onto the next level next season.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:08 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

You can't help but feel theres a good side in there somewhere waiting to come out but it's being held back by our tatics.

I'm not saying it's time to part company with Noble but i really do think Lenagan needs to be looking all over the shop to see if theres anybody available to take us onto the next level next season.

do we have an offensive coach? (no pun intended).

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:37 pm  

jonh wrote:

Going to get ripped for this but the lack of coaching attacking options cost us the game tonight. You cannot expect to do bugger all and turn it on for the big games and expect to win.

We have hit a standard now, that we have to maintain, our defence is fine.

IMO what we are trying to do in attack is clear and with a bit more practice/luck/composure we will get there. We are clearly playing a more expansive game, as Gleeson beds in, this will improve.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:45 pm  

We don't seem to have any set moves that we can use near the opposition line or from scrums. There is no plan for what to do when we're inside the 20 apart from hope someone makes something happen by magic.

: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:10 pm  

AJ wrote:

We have hit a standard now, that we have to maintain, our defence is fine.

IMO what we are trying to do in attack is clear and with a bit more practice/luck/composure we will get there. We are clearly playing a more expansive game, as Gleeson beds in, this will improve.

We have hit this standard a few times though, against teams that run a flat attack. Thought Saints were poor tonight in attack and was releaved Long was not playing as i feel his organisation and a bit more depth they would have hurt us.

We played an exansive game early doors and up till the point we were winning 12 to 6 then we returned to the 1 man stuff even though we slipped behind very quickly after that point.

Our players do not work off the ball, we still lack dummy runners. Its great putting the ball out wide but you have to generate space for them, and at time we still look to be throwing it out wide for the sake of it. To be fair when we did use a dummy runner we hurt them by laying it out to the flanks, generally though we ran sideways running our outside backs out of room with nobody straightening the line or running a dummy.