I was being sarcastic.

Lowest form of wit. No place for sarcasm on these boards

Thanks for the compliment.

Whilst I think that our defence got marginally better over the years with Agar I don't ever think it's been good enough.

If you look at what sets the top teams apart from the rest in SL (and the NRL for that matter) it's their aggressive defence.

Phil Larder in his seminal RL Coaching Manual of the mid 90s identified that adopting the principles of American Football and looking to gain yardage from defence as well as offence was the way to go. It's a lesson that some of the old school (and I count Agar in that camp) have still not learned.

If you get the chance have a look at some of the games this season. The teams with the best records are always quick off the line and aggressively push back opposition players to gain ground. When you couple our lack of agressive defence with our awful kick and chase game it's no coincidence that we seemed to play nearly all the game in our own half last season.

You're definitely knowledgeable in the subject. However i think our defence is sufficient to win the league in its current state. Other areas of our game which i feel need to be improved much more would have a positive effect on our defence anyway, such as a better territorial kicking game which would put our defence under less pressure, along with things such as quicker play the balls which should in turn tire out opposition. And of course being smarter with the ball in hand, allowing the opposition as little ball as possible reducing the amount of tackles our team should have to make.
As a supporters selfish view, i would prefer to see a higher scoring game, in which both teams focus less on defence and more on scoring tries and playing expansive rugby!

Need a much better defensive structure. Sick of death of constantly conceding soft tries out wide.