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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 3014076, member: 8423"] I actually don’t think the halves are a problem and I know this will be controversial but this team can score points. Even in the Roosters game, three clear tries were bombed and another one or two looked extremely threatening. There are three bigger problems that can be fixed fairly quickly: 1. Attitude - This is absolutely the biggest one and it comes from the top down. Darius preferably should be dropped or “rested” but he won’t be as captain so put him on the wing. With Boyd as captain though, this will be the hardest one to fix. The Cows game shows what this side can do though when their heads are in the game. There is just a total leadership vacuum in this side and the only way to fix it in the short-term is make your terrible captain accountable. 2. Defense - The amount of missed tackles is atrocious. That said, there is an even bigger problem and that is everyone goes high and/or arm grabs which means almost every tackle, the runner makes a bucketload or post-contact meters. The other problem as well is that somehow, despite tacklers constantly going high, every second runner pops an offload somehow. There also seems to be no communication. Siebs need to spend the next two months purely focusing on defense, don’t even worry about attack, it is good enough already. 3. Accountability - Well lack there of. It doesn’t matter how good or bad your halves are if you drop the ball literally every second run. Get your players to spend the week walking around with a ball in their hands at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Schoolboy way of fixing schoolboy errors. Drop Isaako and earn Oates. Start making the idiots accountable. Get Boyd out of fullback ASAP and give Macca help from the bench, make the weak links accountable. Play TPJ and Joffa from the bench, make a starting role a privilege and along those lines, absolutely start Staggs and Fifita. Let Su’A redevelop as a backrower in Qld Cup and tell him he’s a legit shot at Glenn’s role once his fitness is back up and he’s performing. I don’t think wholesale changes are needed, just some minor positional rearrangement and one or two players bought in. [/QUOTE]

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