yougengis wrote:
In general I think the club is heading in the right direction, but there are some underlying shortfalls that need rectifying ASAP if the club intends to re-establish itself as a contender.
1. Defense, defense, defense. Ours is inconsistent at best, and you can't win games when you concede so many points.
2. Substitutions. McNamara appears to have little or no awareness of when to substitute players and how best to use his subs to have maximum impact. He brings off players when they're looking like they're just getting warmed up and brings players on with less than 10 minutes to play not giving them the chance to get warmed up!
By the looks of things the junior set up seems to be doing ok and we're producing some decent talent, but there's no point in producing the players if they don't get bled into the first team properly and are given at least a 20 minute spell to get involved.
1. Defense, defense, defense. Ours is inconsistent at best, and you can't win games when you concede so many points.
2. Substitutions. McNamara appears to have little or no awareness of when to substitute players and how best to use his subs to have maximum impact. He brings off players when they're looking like they're just getting warmed up and brings players on with less than 10 minutes to play not giving them the chance to get warmed up!
By the looks of things the junior set up seems to be doing ok and we're producing some decent talent, but there's no point in producing the players if they don't get bled into the first team properly and are given at least a 20 minute spell to get involved.
in particular we sam to rely over much on lynch and newton and keep them both on pitch for much longer stints than are necessary, blunting there effectiveness to a degree. Also concerned that we're relying on leaving menzies on pitch for too big a portion off most games. granted he's one of few game breakers we have but we can't keep asking him to play virtually the whole 80 every week at this stage in his career.
