Yes, absolutely, I take your point. I often wonder what words of wisdom are being passed onto the players every time someone comes onto the field and I wonder whether it has benefits or whether it confuses them.
I can understand why a coach prefers to be in the stands as it's often easier to see the bigger picture from up there but the compromise is that the players aren't getting the guidance first hand.
I've never been a coach at any level so I'm probably not in the best position to judge but if I were a coach I'd want an outstanding team leader on the pitch to help with most of the in-game thinking. All the best coaches will have a top organiser on the pitch. I think Castleford probably have a few including Luke Gale and Grant Millington.
The type of messages I'd send out as coach would be simple commands like: increase line speed, condense the defense, attack the left edge more, close down their play-maker, speed up the play the balls, don't let them scoot from dummy-half, get it wider quicker, etc.
You can't start re-inventing the wheel during a match but you can help the team to focus on which aspects of the game they really need to concentrate on. My words of wisdom after a try has been conceded would be: Get your heads up and make sure you score next! Go and do it!!
But I'm just a man in the stands. I really wouldn't like to be a coach.
Given what was at stake this must represent a good result. Of course it would have been even better had that last penalty gone over the bar rather than hitting the woodwork but it is now all to play for against Newcastle next weekend. Newcastle seem to have been a bit of a bogy team for us in the last couple of seasons but, Keighley apart, their recent results have not been great and we are probably playing with more cohesion than when we lost to them a few weeks ago. Let's hope a few of our stayaway fans make the effort to turn up and support the team.
Some good points by the Cas fan about the penalties & the ref .
More I think about it we should have won & deserved to , when we were leaving the ground a York fan said we should have won by 20 points .
Going back to penalty the Dons got when one of our players pushed a York player back into the ruck, the guy should not have been there but a lot of refs would not have us a penalty . The ref levelled matters up when he gave a penalty against Hedges which appeared to be wrong .
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