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Message: [QUOTE="M.B.88, post: 2786544, member: 8473"] This. This is the potentially the biggest thing at the moment with our halfback situation. Ben Hunt is a ball runner and a creator. His style is to find gaps in defence and exploit the line, opening spaces and putting himself or others through holes. He and Milford both are line breakers. That's their strength. Actually the reason we do so well is we don't bend the line with our forwards but crack and break it open with our backs (eating up valuablr territory through the middle that was lost in previous sets due to smaller forwards) However we've been found out the last two seasons in the big games where what it would of taken to win the premiership was "better game management". Hunt doesn't have a lot of experience with this kind of grinding style. Putting pressure on teams through "good kicking game" because again, he's not that sort of half. The last two years we've always been very strong in one particular stat. And that's points from attacking territory. We were always "tackled in opposition territory a low percentage of times" but almost always up there with points per percentage. Meaning when we do get attacking opportunities, we almost score everytime. This is why i don't understand our team (with weak forward pack)'s decision to take the two. We're gifting them the field position (that our forwards will struggle to regain) for half the points we could gain if we score a try (which again, percentages tell us that with our halves, we most of the time score when given opportunities in their d zone) So in the grand final when we were trying to "protect" our tiny lead...if hunt and milford instead were just trying to score MORE points, we would almost have done so but instead we kept kicking to corners for a scrum. A cowboys forward pack then just barged it back up the field for attacking opportunities. We should of protected or lead by increasing it. These Broncos shouldn't play conservative football. Doesn't work to our pack or halves' strengths. (It's how we offed melbourne this year, played calculated risk football against the odds - our players are skillfull enough to pull it off) I think even Thurston and Cronk would struggle without the type of front row they have. Their forwards can bend the line, when our team rely on breaking it for our attacking opportunities. Cronk and Thurston are masters of getting repeat sets. Now this is where it starts to compare.. I said earlier that we almost always score points when we have sets of 6 in our attacking zone (because our backline is fucking awesome who are reliable point scorers) but, when we do score points, we again are gifting the opposition the upper hand in field position again ! This is a very key point.. instead of scoring points each attacking opportunity... we need to build pressure by getting repeat sets first. This will tire the big forwards out from defending set after set, and then when we do get back into the grind of the field possession battle, we might just have hurt them enough to get the upper hand in that area. This is what people are complaining about. Hunt not being able to "game manage" from his kicking game. But it would help if we had a better forward to bend the line. So all the hate on hunt and saying he'll "never win us a premiership" is garbage. All he needs to work on is getting repeat sets. That's the only thing we are missing at the moment. The coaching staff need to pickup on this as a tactic we are losing out on and inform our backs that repeat sets are probably more important than points scored. We know our backs can score points, we just need to stop allowing ourselves to be muscled out of a match. [/QUOTE]

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