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Message: [QUOTE="LittleDavey, post: 3382362, member: 8255"] This is a hard one because IMO we are improving, but nowhere near fast enough and not in the areas that matter most. There were times under Siebold where the team clocked off and gave up. I'm not really seeing that since Kevvie got his claws into the players so that's a good thing. We are not being beaten on effort, but class. It's also apparent that Kev has changed everything again since Siebold, who changed everything from Wayne. Our attacking and defensive structures are both different - again. This takes some time to bed down, but defensively I can see we're working better as a team than we were 12 or 24 months ago. This is also promising but it's taking some time. Our scramble is also much improved and I put this also down to a better attitude and pride in the team/club. The biggest problems for me are that 1) we seem unfit compared to other teams, which is leading to more fatigue and zero line speed and therefore no pressure or stopping the opponent's momentum; 2) there still seems to be a lack of trust at times in the adjacent defender; and 3) we get slaughtered in the ruck. I presume our lack of line speed is coached on purpose so we keep a set line...so the line is only as fast as the slowest player. In which case we really need to work on that. The trust, it's getting better but still lacking, again this is a time thing. The ruck, well...until we get the same leniency as other teams do, I don't know the answer here, but it's huge because it flows through to everything else - the defensive line having time to get set, then line speed, etc etc. Someone at the club needs to time tackles and put together a dossier for the NRL if warranted because it feels like we get the rough end of the stick. Lastnight the Panthers were not being told to get off us as fast as we were told to get off them, and even when they were told to release there were times it was another 2 whole seconds until they did. Might not be much but across the number of tackles in the game that is more than significant. This is a hard one since it's basically ref's discretion, there's dominant/submissive tackles etc. I don't know the answer. [/QUOTE]

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