We seem to be playing with one of the flattest attacking lines I've seen in 30+ years of watching. There's often only a few yards difference in the depth of the PTB and the deepest man. The line looks cramped up and the receiver is having to check his run and slow down. We've also given a lot of unnecessary forward passes in midfield this year, for the same reason. That can become a vicious circle: slow PTB, receivers overrunning the ball and having to slow down, beaten in the collision, poor body position, and so a slow PTB. Last year O'Meley, Moa and Manu could break this by giving us some (at times undeserved) go-forward. At the moment Briscoe and Lineham look like the only players capable o changing this.

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.