Gonna give more credit to Webby
He’s slowly but surely building to something special with this team
My biggest gripe was the bench rotation and minutes given to the rookies.
He’s ticked the boxes in this area with flying colors.
I thought he played
Ford too much last two season. Especially as stater. He plugged back those minutes significantly and
Ford is still thriving.
Also credit moving
Marata to Prop
Don’t know how he’s done it. But as mentioned in my previous post, the penalties and six against have dropped significantly
My only gripe right now -
Still not a fan of not competing for the bombs.
Not a fan of the outside backs tactic to rush in on defence rather than marking your man and letting your inside slide. I understand the stick and release tactic if your insides are not spreading quickly enough you have to rush in to try and kill the play. Problem is you’ll get exposed every time if a tackle isn’t made and we saw this multiple times against the cows. I’m guessing the alternative to a stick and release tactic is the sliding defence approach where the inside slides to cover the player one out from the player standing directly opposite to them. This looks like the most traditional approach such that every opposing player has a marker. I see Cronulla using this style of defence rather than the rush in approach but maybe because they have speed on their wings? Tuapiki has speed on his side. He didn’t need to rush in every time the ball was spread wide. Hang back.
Mid year score card for Webby A-
