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Message: [QUOTE="Nerd, post: 3656329, member: 11778"] Defence is a mindset. Our defence is passive and weak. Good teams move off the line and hit in defence where as we stay static and wait for the attackers to get to us then grab and try to hold the player to slow down the play the ball. As a result every team we play are looking to either offload at will or get quick play the balls. Look at Payne Haas during Origin, he was tackling with venom then back at the Broncos he defends like a pillow. We also look like we are not fit and it shows. Every week we seem to be the dumbest football team in the comp. Cobbo being taken into touch nearly every week, persisting with short drop outs and kick offs despite us being abysmal at them, Walsh going for a hail mary pass every second time he gets the ball. Piakura and Mariner with their poor defensive reads. All things that a coach should address but hasn't. Player selection and interchanges is the same. I know Kevvie's hand has been forced by injury but Billy is a poor dummy half. Don't get me wrong he tries hard but isn't up to NRL standard. His passing is poor and he looks like a half trying to defend in the middle. For example against the Titans in the first half we are attacking the line, it's the end of the set Reynolds is going to put a kick in behind the line then receives the pass above his head, to his credit he manages to catch the ball but has to stop and regain his balance before kicking which makes the outside players have to check their run to not be offside which allows the Titans to easily handle the kick. Everyone has a bad pass every now and then but with Billy it happens multiple times a game. I don't think Mozer is ready to start games yet but you can see that Billy is gassed around the 20 minute mark yet is often left on until after half time. Dropping Billy isn't going to get us winning again but you have to start somewhere and he isn't an NRL standard dummy half. To those that think he is, would any other team in the comp swap their 9 for Billy? A good hard look needs to be taken out our retention team. Losing Flegler and then replacing him with Baker was a disaster. Having 4 hookers on the books is a salary cap disaster. I was a big fan of Kevvie coming on board as coach but it now looks to be a failed experiment. [/QUOTE]

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