Although this idea of organisation is somewhat subjective, you know what it looks like and what it does not when you see it.
Because of our history, Warriors fans have a lot of experience in identifying a lack of organisation.
Consider our worst halves pairings.
The Warriors often times look like they have no idea what they are doing when that crucial fifth tackle moment comes. The tackle that either adds to all the foundation work of your runners of ruins it.
Probably the most diagnostic single point in our organisation is the kick, it is either hurried, or predictable or inaccurate.
Walsh solves that issue.
We end our sets looking like we had some idea of where that kick was coming from, where it was going, and that our chase has a realistic chance of containing the receiver. In real terms these illusions of a prepared Warriors kick chase and deliberate defensive reset, are predicated by the players realising these are kicks they can chase in the first place.
In the lead up to that kick, poor passing /timing/ combination of both, will erode the final play, the kick.
But before you even go there, lets acknowledge having one mediocre kicker, and one poor kicker means, teams know you are either going to make a piss poor kick or go to the same guy.
Walsh gives them options on the fifth with just his boot.
Before
Walsh came in, there was a distinct lack of forwards in motion to set up a platform to get to that kick, so without having him mic'd up one can fairly assume he has that ability to get people around him moving. He removes the horrible spectre of some inappropriate forward getting the ball and dying with it too.
He can do things like pass a ball so quickly and so cleanly that he has extra time, yes he plays eyes up football, and yes he has some instinctive elements, but unlike
Shaun Johnson, it is probably easier for his team mates to read where he is going with his use of his movement, and therefore he is adding some fluid Try assists and creating line breaks in a structured way relative to just taking the line on and gunning it like
Kodi,
Shaun Johnson, Lance Hohaia et al.
You don't see him skipping around in circles much, people call it directness, but I would add there is a deliberateness to it as well.
So in a nut shell, without a half that has a beautiful passing game, the Warriors will look clunky, and without a half with an effective kicking game, they will look frenetic and back peddling.
Without an effective halves paring the
Walsh experiment will fail. Thankfully the first time round
Walsh Kodi works, and works bloody well.
Lets see what
Walsh Chanel Harris-Tavita looks like too....I presume Brown must be sorely tempted this year to play around with his pieces and see what he really has on his hands.
None of what I described in this post is Cooper Cronk material, but for the Warriors, having a fluid attack and lots of dynamic ball movement cannot be a thing, a proven element, without looking at the player that introduced it to the team with their arrival and seeing some organisation.
I said he is no Cooper Cronk.
Well he is 18 and he plays like a young Jonathan Thurston. He is actually talented enough, if taught right, if surrounded by the right players, if taught to tackle, to make his own name in the NRL.