Our defensive structure is much better.
Every player appears to really care.
Shaun Johnson makes everyone better.
Then the question is, why are we leaking 3 soft tries?
Its fact, we have to be 50/50 offense/defense.
We were really soft up the middle the first half.
So if everyone wants to defend, it is both technique and strategy that we simply do not have. Whose job is it to teach our players flexible defensive Techniques? Does Brown just wipe his hands and leave it up to Morgs? Is Morgs honestly good enough to coach modern D technique?
So first half we needed to strengthen our middle, but as the game went on and CBs got tired, they started looking more expensive, in which we needed a traditional sliding technque.
But does anybody in the Warrior coach camp have the skills to teach that? And do they realise it is the Coaches role to instruct defensive technique?
To me it looks like we have the skill but we have no specialists telling us how and how to modify or morph defensive technique based on style of offense, ie going from hitting it up the middle with quick PTBs to using the backline more trying to stretch metre gains wide.
My opinion is the players show the wanting to learn, which 90% of the battle, we have good defenders generally speaking if you stamp out the silly erriors like the
Curran/Walsh Dearden miss. So for me, our offense seems already capable of competing, our defense has no chance, so this is obviouslly what we should be focussing on.
