
gREVUS
Long live the Rainbows and Butterflies
Contributor
honestly we lost 2 on the road, its not the end of the world.
As to the trying to hard comment, I totally get it. They put attack ahead of defence, didnt work for tries, just threw the ball around. This left players out of position, tired from sideways running and trying every stupid play their little minds could think of.
We've seen it before. Manu used to do it often, trying to take up the slack of the rest of the team. Only in this case the players are trying to cover for a player that isn't even here anymore. All the press, all the talk was about how will they make up the short fall of Shaun Johnson. So now they all have this attitude that they need to be the one to make up the short fall. Its this attitude that means the team structure has fallen apart.
I'm not saying that everything from here will go swimmingly but I recognise that what we have seen is nothing new. Calm the team down, stop expecting someone to become another Shaun Johnson and work to the strengths of the team they have and they will win some games.
As to the trying to hard comment, I totally get it. They put attack ahead of defence, didnt work for tries, just threw the ball around. This left players out of position, tired from sideways running and trying every stupid play their little minds could think of.
We've seen it before. Manu used to do it often, trying to take up the slack of the rest of the team. Only in this case the players are trying to cover for a player that isn't even here anymore. All the press, all the talk was about how will they make up the short fall of Shaun Johnson. So now they all have this attitude that they need to be the one to make up the short fall. Its this attitude that means the team structure has fallen apart.
I'm not saying that everything from here will go swimmingly but I recognise that what we have seen is nothing new. Calm the team down, stop expecting someone to become another Shaun Johnson and work to the strengths of the team they have and they will win some games.