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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3700033, member: 9052"] I liked that we scored in a number of different ways. We just took whatever the opposition was giving us, and it just so happened that the opposition was defending like U12's... but we put them to the sword because of it. It's what storm and penrith do... they don't care how they get them and they won't hesitate to pile the points on. Last year we were saying that we are too reliant on Walsh, which meant we were reliant on block plays and sweeping plays to get us tries. We were also reliant on Reynolds making the right decisions and creating tries... like short kicks behind instead of going out the back to Reece. On the weekend we scored a try from dummy half, a wrap-around from dummy half with the crash ball offloading, a crash ball to BTK, 2x by competing on cross field kicks... and maybe only 3-4 from block plays (Shiba, Mariner, Hoeter and Latrell) depending on how you want to define them. I think that's a good sign of a team not caring about the flashy stuff and just doing what's needed to get the points, but also embracing multiple points of attack. Much harder to shut a team down when there are threats across the field and all the way through to kicks on last tackle. Thinking about it we may not have had too many settlers to reset our position... that was a big annoyance to me where we kept resetting only to throw one block play at them across a set of six. Sometimes we would end up going settler on settler only for the ball to get shut down as soon as it went near Ezra or Walsh... it looked so slow and there was so much pressure on Ezra and Walsh. I would need to go back and keep track of it, but attacking plays on attacking plays can really stretch the defence. It's something Parra love to do... might be something to look out for and whether it's some Barrett influence coming through. Also link play through the middle didn't feel noticeable which could mean they were getting it through pretty efficiently. BTK was particularly impressive with his ball playing. We were ridiculously efficient inside the 20m yesterday.. it was clinical when we got down there [/QUOTE]

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