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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 2885208, member: 9052"] I think you make some good points and I've noticed at times the players don't seem to be truly fired up for the contest. It's almost like they treat the game as a career/job rather than a passion. When they're doing the lap at the end of a game there is almost no change in expression between a win or a loss. Heading into the prelim all the talk was about how we wanted to move the ball to disrupt their structures and we "achieved" that only by doing a LOT of sideway movement, but there was never any intent to play fast physical football to create room for the spread. We threw very little at them and got annihilated in the process. This is all down to mentality which was obviously very poor from the start. One thing associated with Melbourne and also the Cows is they have very good tactics and plans when it comes to their players. The roles are very well defined for each player so when a player is missing they find a new one to put into the role. The storm in particular are good at also modifying their play to suit a player's strengths. In the case of the storm this has largely been the same structure for over a decade... so whilst they may have turnover in the players the machine as a whole still functions the same. This is what's missing for the broncos... the roles are not well defined (hence our constant suggestions that Bennett relies on individual brilliance). Hell we didn't even know who was playing where week to week. We didn't know what kind of football we were going to play each week and there was massive variance from week to week. There's also no clear tactic to exploit certain players strengths... Jimmy being a perfect example. Milf another. Even against the roosters earlier in the year Gillett was absolutely destroying Keary yet we rarely went back to it. There needs to be some sort of structure to create these situations, recognise when it's on and execute to get them the ball. The heads up style we tried to run this year is fine however there didn't appear to be any ability to recognise situations (which a heads up style should be doing) and then exploit them through our strengths. Instead they just largely went through the motions. One example I noticed from the eels when they played us was when Milf was defending at marker Moses almost always ran a blindside play. The commentators now rave that Moses is one of the best blindside players going, but it is clearly coaching from Arthur to identify a situation his team can exploit, be able to get his players to recognise this situation in game and then be able to exploit it. [/QUOTE]

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