Bellamy
My view on his greatness is in the thinkers he has produced. Many coaches can get a pack assembled, slick footwork but the ability to play footy in your dinner suite was always thought to be the gift of time. So has the storm recruited an ensemble of gifted players or have they spotted determined men and given them gifts. Cronk, smith, green , widdop in recent years and players like scott hill and robbie ross. They have always played within themselves a bit, some in dinner suits because they thought of footy as a game rather than a contest of rugby league. it appears to me it can be taught if you want to kearn it
Even a player like ryan hoffman who was a gun at the blindside kick chase was always thinking and on the ball.
Tackling, holding , wresting, and every other storm tactic is a complete understanding of "the game" as opposed to trying to outplay your opponent at footy. To negotiate 80 minutes on a footy field, with a max of 13 players at a time , and then end up with more points every game.store energy by using the footy field like a snakes and ladders board, by kicking smartly and flexing the rules. Oh and heres the footy.
Bennett.
Another master coach plays his footy waaay differenty, generally with potent backlines, quick spreads and a very attacking football as opposed to playing the game
Most people , however succesful bellamys tactics are , hate "the game " but admire it, but Everyone loves bennett style footy when he is hot. They are true entertainers. No right, no wrong, but everyone has a preference
Our last great squad with lyon, matai, choc, gifty, snake , kitey just had a **** tonne of elite footballers in one era. DEs magic as a coach was undoubatly keeping them together so we could bask for a decade. We may be 20 years before we can stack a team of absolute champions together like that . The fact that many of these champions were constantly overlooked for rep jerseys was a great advantage to us as fans. This is kinda getting me to my point
In the last 15 years or so melbournes tactic have only been challenged by some truely exceptionally stacked sides. On paper far more stacked all over the park , in fact like manlys era and now the chooks, with souths stocking up on gun backs like a rush for dunny rolls its pretty much storms spine then daylight
I think of how bellamy transformed some players with waaaay less natural ability into players that are exponentially more important to a sides outcome on a consistent basis.
Thurston
His greatness grew with his ability to manage a game and when he did the cowboys became a title threat instead of unlucky bail outs in week 2. It strikes me that we seem a bit similar currently. I suspect his eductaion was helped in the qld camp. The storm trio and thurston really gelled and thurston as player became better and better and seemed to nderstand the game
Des is the coach and he is far more qualified than me . i respect his choices 100%. Has to work with what he has but cherry often takes 20 minutes to get into games and by then so much effort work has happened and our danger props are getting ready to spell , he is a really good footy player but can someone send him a halfback for dummies guide NOW. as skilful , dedicated and educated as he is, it seems to me the top players have out thought him before he take the field. Cherry might yet reach out to benji marshall and ask him how he turned from being an enigmatic player with the skills to a proper halfback but you would suspect that improvement will need to star showing soon
just an opinion . Sure he is gifted but seems to ignore the golden rules of having the number 7 on your back and thats not cool for me
My view on his greatness is in the thinkers he has produced. Many coaches can get a pack assembled, slick footwork but the ability to play footy in your dinner suite was always thought to be the gift of time. So has the storm recruited an ensemble of gifted players or have they spotted determined men and given them gifts. Cronk, smith, green , widdop in recent years and players like scott hill and robbie ross. They have always played within themselves a bit, some in dinner suits because they thought of footy as a game rather than a contest of rugby league. it appears to me it can be taught if you want to kearn it
Even a player like ryan hoffman who was a gun at the blindside kick chase was always thinking and on the ball.
Tackling, holding , wresting, and every other storm tactic is a complete understanding of "the game" as opposed to trying to outplay your opponent at footy. To negotiate 80 minutes on a footy field, with a max of 13 players at a time , and then end up with more points every game.store energy by using the footy field like a snakes and ladders board, by kicking smartly and flexing the rules. Oh and heres the footy.
Bennett.
Another master coach plays his footy waaay differenty, generally with potent backlines, quick spreads and a very attacking football as opposed to playing the game
Most people , however succesful bellamys tactics are , hate "the game " but admire it, but Everyone loves bennett style footy when he is hot. They are true entertainers. No right, no wrong, but everyone has a preference
Our last great squad with lyon, matai, choc, gifty, snake , kitey just had a **** tonne of elite footballers in one era. DEs magic as a coach was undoubatly keeping them together so we could bask for a decade. We may be 20 years before we can stack a team of absolute champions together like that . The fact that many of these champions were constantly overlooked for rep jerseys was a great advantage to us as fans. This is kinda getting me to my point
In the last 15 years or so melbournes tactic have only been challenged by some truely exceptionally stacked sides. On paper far more stacked all over the park , in fact like manlys era and now the chooks, with souths stocking up on gun backs like a rush for dunny rolls its pretty much storms spine then daylight
I think of how bellamy transformed some players with waaaay less natural ability into players that are exponentially more important to a sides outcome on a consistent basis.
Thurston
His greatness grew with his ability to manage a game and when he did the cowboys became a title threat instead of unlucky bail outs in week 2. It strikes me that we seem a bit similar currently. I suspect his eductaion was helped in the qld camp. The storm trio and thurston really gelled and thurston as player became better and better and seemed to nderstand the game
Des is the coach and he is far more qualified than me . i respect his choices 100%. Has to work with what he has but cherry often takes 20 minutes to get into games and by then so much effort work has happened and our danger props are getting ready to spell , he is a really good footy player but can someone send him a halfback for dummies guide NOW. as skilful , dedicated and educated as he is, it seems to me the top players have out thought him before he take the field. Cherry might yet reach out to benji marshall and ask him how he turned from being an enigmatic player with the skills to a proper halfback but you would suspect that improvement will need to star showing soon
just an opinion . Sure he is gifted but seems to ignore the golden rules of having the number 7 on your back and thats not cool for me
Not sure what’s happening with the little bombs, often our players can’t get there in time to put pressure on. Walker’s kicking game was good today.
