FOREVERTRIN wrote:
The kicking is a big concern for me as well, both the kick-chase and the lack of distance.Field position is everything, and at the moment we seem to be playing most of the game in our own half.It can be a massive moral booster to see a kick that takes you from one 25 to the other.Have we anybody that can kick long?
I agree with everything that's been said in last two posts.I too thought we would be up for it, but we are way off!
I’ve got the day off today, so watched Brisbane against Penrith. I know it’s the NRL and I know they spend god knows how many more million then us, but the kicking game, kick chase intensity and just pure intensity from both sides for 80 minutes was unreal. What I noticed was if Reynolds or Cleary got a poorish kick away (I’d be jumping for joy if either our halves could manage one of their poorish kicks) then the kick chase more than made up for it. Not only is our kicking game 9/10 poor but our kick chase is also atrocious. We simply up our intensity or we stand no chance of competing. Wigan were good last week, clinical, high intensity and high completion especially in the first half. But nothing that we haven’t seen before. All SL teams would of dicked us last week with that soft attitude. They say defence wins you games, well we don’t have a prayer unless we fire up and fast.