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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 2280174, member: 1992"] No side has a defence against a team hellbent on offloading. The Warriors have been doing that since their inception and as a rule have played the islander style hot potato first before playing the safety first approach. No team is immune, not even Melbourne and unsurprisingly Melbourne themselves are great at the offloading in tackles. What sets Melbourne apart is their ability to pick and choose which style suits. Tight and tough when required but free and easy when not. What I'd be doing this week is drilling my forwards to start hitting lower on the ballcarrier and forget the[size=7] ( ROCKY TAKE NOTE ) WRAP[/size]ping up part.....naturally this seems to be at odds with normal thinking and doubtless the knee jerkers amongst us will be amazed by my statement. However, as anyone who reads my efforts would know I do think about the game and occasionally am correct. Here's my reasoning: Big forwards running at the defence tend to be hit high in an effort to stop the offload. When meeting the defence , and being hit high on the body, they tend to absorb the impact but remain upright. Quite often for upwards of 5 seconds while wrestling the tacklers. Consequently opportunities to offload are abundant. Why change ? Well, big forwards charging the line and hit low around the rib/waist/hipline have both hands free[size=7] but[/size] have very little time to offload, in fact less than a second before plowing into the turf. Against a team like the Warriors a plan like this will work. The player has so little time to offload and generally only in the one direction because he is falling from the moment the tackle has commenced. There is so little time to make a decision before he hits the deck. Yes, some very easy offloads will occur but by severely limiting the opportunities we increase our chances. Even if it did'nt work could it be any worse than watching our defenders, two and three deep around the attacker and watching as the ball is slipped to yet another player we clumsily attempt to wrap up high ??? [/QUOTE]

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