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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2883944, member: 8215"] I reckon Sims would have helped our cause against the Storm. They were running at us with no fear and a couple of hits to their ribs could have changed that somewhat. The cheap niggly stuff that Blair did doesn't work - it just makes people work harder to hurt you back, but on the scoreboard. But a hard, legal whack to your ribs has you looking in the line for the perpetrator next time, shepherds you to run a less desirable line, makes you second guess. We need that sort of forward moving, um, forward. An interesting point from post-game. I think it was Ben Hunt who said something like "we had areas of weakness that we tried to exploit but it didn't work". I don't know if that means they went against the game plan, or it means they tried to exploit the supposed weaknesses but the Storm allowed for it and wouldn't break. But what that says to me is that we need a committed tactician. Bennett looks after our mindset. JD looks after our attacking structure. But who is pulling apart the opposition and identifying their weaknesses? I know [I]someone[/I] would be, but I don't think they're doing a very good job. In terms of "structure", we're not that bad because we can get in to attacking positions quite well and when we do pull off a good attacking play, it looks a million dollars. But they'll only come off if it's a play that exploits a weakness, or comes after some lead-up work that creates that weakness. That's what we seem to be missing. The tactics that are opposition-specific that you can just tell Smith & Cronk have endlessly pored over in video sessions. [/QUOTE]

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