Toookey
So, we're not quite at the end of the year but I thought it might be good to have a place to discuss the year as a whole. Frustrations, what went well, what we hope improves for 2023 etc.
Defense has obviously been horrible this year, and is the biggest thing we need to change imo. I don't think we can keep Justin Morgan on and tweak a few things, we need a complete overhaul. Surely you can't keep your job as defensive coach when you've had the worst defence all year?
At the moment we've conceded 673 points this year. Interestingly 296 of them - nearly half - have come from 6 games alone. 25% of our games have equated around 47% of our points against, which is astronomically bad. In comparison, taking out those 6 games our points for is 338 and against is 377 (19 v 22 average).
There is light at the end of the tunnel - RW leaving us is going to be quite a big net gain. Conservatively I think you would say he's cost us by him self, at least 10 tries this year. That number is obviously way more, but faulting only him (and not our other poor defence) I think 10 would be a fair number. That won't be there next year.
I think we need to look at the Cowboys as an example. Last year they were the worst defensive team conceding 748 points, but this year have turned that around by a whopping 400 points, sitting at only 350 points against - nearly 3 tries less a game.
Interestingly they're only 150 odd points better attacking wise this year, or around 1 try more a game.
I heard a stat that the last 20 years only 1 team has won the comp while not being one of the top 3 defensive teams in the competition. This has to be out goal moving forward, while we probably won't go as well as the Cowboys and tidy up 400 points next year, if we aim at improving 1 try less a game defensively next year (plus RW's 10 tries) and we don't clock off when we're getting beaten so scorelines blow out massively, I think we'll improve 10 fold.
Defense has obviously been horrible this year, and is the biggest thing we need to change imo. I don't think we can keep Justin Morgan on and tweak a few things, we need a complete overhaul. Surely you can't keep your job as defensive coach when you've had the worst defence all year?
At the moment we've conceded 673 points this year. Interestingly 296 of them - nearly half - have come from 6 games alone. 25% of our games have equated around 47% of our points against, which is astronomically bad. In comparison, taking out those 6 games our points for is 338 and against is 377 (19 v 22 average).
There is light at the end of the tunnel - RW leaving us is going to be quite a big net gain. Conservatively I think you would say he's cost us by him self, at least 10 tries this year. That number is obviously way more, but faulting only him (and not our other poor defence) I think 10 would be a fair number. That won't be there next year.
I think we need to look at the Cowboys as an example. Last year they were the worst defensive team conceding 748 points, but this year have turned that around by a whopping 400 points, sitting at only 350 points against - nearly 3 tries less a game.
Interestingly they're only 150 odd points better attacking wise this year, or around 1 try more a game.
I heard a stat that the last 20 years only 1 team has won the comp while not being one of the top 3 defensive teams in the competition. This has to be out goal moving forward, while we probably won't go as well as the Cowboys and tidy up 400 points next year, if we aim at improving 1 try less a game defensively next year (plus RW's 10 tries) and we don't clock off when we're getting beaten so scorelines blow out massively, I think we'll improve 10 fold.
