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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 2330351, member: 1847"] "Rrabnocovor"? Sounds like a famous lesbian tennis star... :P Actually RBY, the more I think about it, the more I believe it is a lot about Wallace. Football of any code, like physics, is about space and time. As we all acknowledge, creating that is the key role of the 9, 7, 6 and 1. The main (but not only) reason we flop when Locky is out is that we have no-one that can create space, and therefore time - space for an attack to form and, therefore time for it to be executed. Wallace is absolute SHITE at that. Hoffman - brilliant as his running game is, is still too inexperienced to be a ball player (read: space maker- a creator of opportunities). Macca at last has started to understand that role - till Henhouse pulled him off. To do any of this requires vision (read the play) and fundamentally, the COACH has to build some sort of team structure around what to do when that space is created. That is, players in position, KNOWING where to stand, knowing that it's going to happen, and then doing something about it. We have bugger all of that. Like... Sammy e.g. Wally gets the ball. Everyone is standing nice and flat (footed). Hmmm thinks Wally. Who will I give the ball to? Hey Sammy! So Sammy, flat footed, light bulb over his head starts to run and gets the ball with the defence closing in on him. Or Troncosauraurus who for some odd reason, has recently started to run stupid angles (like Parker) with no rhyme or reason behind why he does that, or why we do that as an option. Meanwhile, the rest of the boys are wandering around, almost in line with the play, waiting for an offload perchance? Maybe I'll get the ball? What then? I'll try and bust the bastards with clever footwork? That, IMO, largely explains why we are absolute shite in general play in the middle, and why, coupled to stupid defensive structural strategy (like what we did on Friday, especially on their 4th and 5th tackle plays) we won't read: can't, win without Lockyer. And when I say win, it's in the context of matches against the top sides who have both settled structure inattack and defence, and decent space-makers at 1, 6,7 and 9. [/QUOTE]

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