Technical Coach
Bencher
Boring Modern Attacks of "All Clubs"
If our left to right passing was as crisp and fluent with natural ball playing variety as our right to left side we would have won that game easily even with players out and not deserving of the win.
I'm sick of modern professional teams still throwing 1960,70's,80's lolly pop passes on their weak passing sides----too many times you will see attacking sides camped on the left side of the field and the next play is a settler up the middle because they cant spread it quick enough in that direction.(yes occasionally its done to give two options on the next play or to drag defences in before a set play)
Slow ball playing taking an eternity to get to the opposite side of the field combined with the slow movement of forwards is made even worse by a slow ball playing back rower unable to sprint around a sliding defence or shuffles too often before releasing his pass. The only time we look good going right is when we are on a roll and its a short side play at speed moving forward that's when Glens ballplaying looks crisp and with intent.
Like Gus Gould stated he is sick of modern halves taking the easy second man deep option all the time basically all teams attack in the same manner and most teams are weak going left to right. The Dragons attack is the same and its boring to watch, last year they got away with being one dimensional in attack due to a good structured rolling forward pack that was disciplined and superb defence it will be tougher this year if their attack does not evolve and become more creative.
If our left to right passing was as crisp and fluent with natural ball playing variety as our right to left side we would have won that game easily even with players out and not deserving of the win.
I'm sick of modern professional teams still throwing 1960,70's,80's lolly pop passes on their weak passing sides----too many times you will see attacking sides camped on the left side of the field and the next play is a settler up the middle because they cant spread it quick enough in that direction.(yes occasionally its done to give two options on the next play or to drag defences in before a set play)
Slow ball playing taking an eternity to get to the opposite side of the field combined with the slow movement of forwards is made even worse by a slow ball playing back rower unable to sprint around a sliding defence or shuffles too often before releasing his pass. The only time we look good going right is when we are on a roll and its a short side play at speed moving forward that's when Glens ballplaying looks crisp and with intent.
Like Gus Gould stated he is sick of modern halves taking the easy second man deep option all the time basically all teams attack in the same manner and most teams are weak going left to right. The Dragons attack is the same and its boring to watch, last year they got away with being one dimensional in attack due to a good structured rolling forward pack that was disciplined and superb defence it will be tougher this year if their attack does not evolve and become more creative.
