If you were in his place would you like to have two big boppers, Suli, Rava running at you. Simplest way and this he has to drum or have drummed into his head, is go low. I was a squirt when I played footy as a young bloke, but I was a great defender as Johnny Raper was my hero and I tried to emulate his cover defense, always around the waist then slipping down to trap the legs.
He misses everyone. Big bobbers as well as average size but faster blokes so Lomax will run at him as well.
He's running the ball more but causing the opposition defence zero problems and his defence is still disgraceful.
Nah, scored one from a dart and almost another, his defense is not disgraceful but has been upgraded to moderate. Heavy off season defensive drills and conditioning will do him, Sloan and all our boys the world of good.
I call Billy Burns they guy with no expression , drop a ball no emotion , pull off a great tackle no emotion , score a try no emotion ...... Yep Id keep him .......
BMM was being chosen in a position he obviously wasn't suited for. No idea at all what was going through Hooks head. Did he want to get sacked?
Quick play the ball on the line allowed him to score that try.
Yep. I didn't miss it. Wonder what's going on. GC can't possibly afford him now. No QLD team can.
Defense is 90% attitude. There's a lot for Flanno to work with and work on.
Sloans and Feagai's. Both of them. And Amone for 1 try.
He's a tackling machine. Should have been in first grade all year. But hopefully we can get a second rower who offers a little more in attack.
When Fegai went inside for the umpteenth time this season, missed his man, resulting in two easy tries for Melbourne to storm back into the contest after we had jumped away to a 20-4 lead. They never lost the momentum after that, tho we never at any stage threw in the towel.
True. We have one of the games best technical defenders in JDB, surely the club can do more with him in instilling this attitude as sure as hell our current defense coach appears unable to. Btw the same guy Ben Woolf will be the Ressie coach next season.
Like, coach tells them, "stand where you normally would and then move out 2m unless that puts you over the sideline." That would save 2 to 3 tries out wide every game.
For the try, can't remember if it was the second or third to their winger, Feagai rushed in but for a change, not needlessly. There was ample time for Amone to get across to make the tackle. And when he didn't, ample opportunity for Sloan to get across and push him over the sideline.
In my era Ron Coote had Rapers tackling style and ability
The problem that our defensive structure has especially on the left is the players are ad libbing. They rush in to make the big hit, the problem is that they fail to time the run in to when that opposition player actually has possession of the ball. Mistimed the hit and you have egg all over your face and gift the opposition a 2 man overlap