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Not sure where this should go, but I reckon it warrants its own thread.
We have all seen that all too often when the ball is deep in our backline, our players (either deliberately or not, suspect the former) get sucked into one half of the ground, giving us absolutely NO chance to rebound effectively. We lose all structure, and the only way to get it back is to concede a goal, or if we are lucky to engineer a stoppage on the wing, if we can get it that far before it shoots straight back into the opposition forward line.
Now, if this is deliberate coaching instruction, it's clearly not working, and our coaches can't be blind and not see that. If it's not the coaches doing, then they aren't doing a good job trying to address it. Good teams don't play that way, and we aren't going to kick reasonable score against anyone, until we can fix it. Our only avenue to goal against a decent side would be straight out of the centre bounce. Hence why we don't kick more than 2-3 per quarter.
We have all seen that all too often when the ball is deep in our backline, our players (either deliberately or not, suspect the former) get sucked into one half of the ground, giving us absolutely NO chance to rebound effectively. We lose all structure, and the only way to get it back is to concede a goal, or if we are lucky to engineer a stoppage on the wing, if we can get it that far before it shoots straight back into the opposition forward line.
Now, if this is deliberate coaching instruction, it's clearly not working, and our coaches can't be blind and not see that. If it's not the coaches doing, then they aren't doing a good job trying to address it. Good teams don't play that way, and we aren't going to kick reasonable score against anyone, until we can fix it. Our only avenue to goal against a decent side would be straight out of the centre bounce. Hence why we don't kick more than 2-3 per quarter.