Quote: sergeant pepper "It's hard not to notice the marked improvement in our attack over recent weeks. We seem to be less reliant on the predicable out the back move that's been done to death for a few seasons now. On the whole we seem to have developed some new set moves which have bagged us a few eye catching tries i.e. Clubb and Bowen vs Wire and Bowen yesterday off Joel. All seemed pre planned and executed like they've been ran through in training more than once.
I guess the million dollar question is - who is responsible for it?
I can't help but wonder if Tommy Leuluai is the answer? These new moves seem to have come at the same time as Tommy arriving and Deacon leaving. I'm sure I've seen a few pictures of him being involved with the backs - could he be helping us out whilst he's having rehab with us? If so it certainly adds weight to the talk/rumours of him taking up a coaching role with the club at some point.'"
When I saw the tries scored on Saturday I was intending to put on an article entitled "the Joel and Matty show", then when I read this thread I decided to post my thoughts on here.
I don't think some of the the subtle changes seen are down to Tommy, due to one particular move which has happened twice during the last couple of months and I don't think Tommy has been here that long.
On Saturday Joel put Matty Bowen over with a sublime pass on the inside, this was a duplicate of a try Matty scored at Hull on the 23rd of July, again Joel was the provider.
The same type of clever pass has been given to Matty by George Williams a few times in the last few weeks, so I am wondering if some of it may be down to the tremendous form shown by Bowen during the last couple of months.
Also I am asking myself has Matty had any input in the coaching by getting over to the other players the lines he runs and were to look for him when he comes into the line.