Its a marathon and not a sprint and all that and we probably had a 1/3rd of our salary cap sat in the stands but but when are going to become more expansive in our attack?

We were told we had ball playing forward who seem reluctant to offload which is partly down to our lack of support play. We have pace to burn out wide but seem to favour the drop off pass back into the ruck.

We are embarrassingly easy to read at the minute in our attack and its not helping with our poor discipline but at times last year we played some great expansive rugby which the lads seemed to enjoy. Why are we so reluctant to do so this year?

It's going to be either a master stroke in delayed tactics by Gentle and suddenly open up at somepoint in the season or we are in for another long frustrating season.

Were to slow to play an expansive game , until we speed the ptb & improve on the handling , Teams will just mop up what little creativity we throw at them with ease .

We've even lost our blind side scrum plays that we used last season. Gentle clearly brought these plays from his time at Wests as they used them alot. But why have we stopped trying them?
Same old drop off routine.

The only real play we have right now is the wedge play but we never get it right and therefore it's easy to read and McDonnell ends up getting smashed. Offloading the ball more would help allieviate our lack of creativity.

If it was played last weekend it was Melbourne v North Queensland Cowboys. I was there.