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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 3242406, member: 1992"] Largely agree here with you but again the offensive side CAN control their half of the game. I'm just suggesting the following as food for thought but consider our next game. We expect to get pumped with Penrith running in a big score 40-55 odd points. Now ,thinking about our ptb speeds it averages at around 3.5 seconds. Multiply by 6 gives us 21 seconds a set. Now that's just the ptb and of course does not indicate how long we actually have the ball in our possession. Further multiplication of our sets for a game (average 40) means we spend 840 seconds a match just in ptbs. That's 14 minutes at our current speeds. So, if we took our time and employed a slow ptb we could easily double the time WE TAKE FROM PENRITH to score or whatever. Imagine making them wait, every single time forcing the defence to stand still, 10 metres away. Further imagine how much more time we have to breathe, how much energy is conserved and how much easier it is to organise your next hitup. With a slower pace we get a much less frantic scramble. We take our time, set our kicker and, god forbid, become more NFL like. They set up plays, why can we not do the same? If we simply slow our ptbs to 7 seconds WE TAKE ALMOST 15 MINUTES from Penrith( whomever we play) per game. That's 15 freaking minutes with just one tactic. Everyone has seen what teams do to us in 10 minute period and it seems that tries come in a rush so why not employ this tactic if a team scores on us. Reduce the time they have the ball, increase our overall minutes, gain far better control of every single play and produce far better outcomes on our 5th tackle. Analysis of our go forward shows we won't lose a great deal in metreage. Anyway, food for thought. One last thing, changing from 14 minutes to 28 minutes will have an enormous impact on the oppositions time with ball in hand. [/QUOTE]

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