Quote: retirethename "Not posted for a while, but have to say I found my self shouting "rubbish" - such was our woeful performance.
for weeks i have been getting well and truely hacked off with the players standing very shallow at the play the ball when we are in attack. We look like the defending team. what happended to standing deep, giving the creative players room to move, look up, direct the attack and bring forwards running on to the ball?
LMS gets the ball 8 times out of 10 stood still has to start running and then is hit. Why is he not hitting the ball at full speed? Same Tamata, Hecks and Ward?
No wonder Randell, Purdo, Dorn and Orr can't create any space for flowing moves or overlaps.
You look at Leed, Wire, Saints, Hudds - all stood 10, 20 or even 30 metres back at a good ol' fashioned running the ball angle.
Then low and behold the Bulls show up, and guess what they play a flat attack to. At one point in the first half both attack and defence looked the same with more than 10 actual metres between both sets of players. No wonder the Dulls are stuck and at the bottom and we seem determined to join them.
Get the line of attack back at an angle, give Dorn some room, get the players running on to the ball - give Sharp some room to get on the outside of his man and stop wearing him out carting the ball forward like a forward!
Also BMcD stop the use of the wingers and centres bringing th ball out of our 20m area and use our forwards -that is what they are there for!!!
Sorry but at the moment I find myself more in tune with Lister's views than some of the more positive posters on hear - but for one thing.... I did not sit in the bar in the second half watching another game. Lister - no matter how bad the team plays you should stick it out, not scuttle off to watch the Pies (or any one else for that matter).'"
Gotta agree - especially on the use of wingers running it from DH. Will Sharp is not big enough to hit the ball up twice in the first 3 tackles.
