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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 2524656, member: 1847"] Two points in a sort of defence of Macca, when I for one also want him to be an 80 min hooker. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't fitness, like most other human traits, a function of one's genetic configuration? Like, I can be built like a marathon runner, train my arse off, yet always run last apart from falling over half way? Or I can be go to gym, end up looking like Usain Bolt, and watch him cross the finish line as I get to the 10m mark? Second, and setting aside the equally valid aspect of humanity that hookers are not created equal, they still have a certain something to cut it at NRL level. That means to me (my hobby horse - Bronco of course) that the game plan is critical in determining how each individual plays, and in relationship to others in the team. With the Broncos, it is our flat attacking structure ingrained over years of the same, slow play the balls, laziness, flabbiness, and poor or no structures which hinder our players from performing to their potential. While individuals must be held to account for their effort and contributions, the coach is responsible for giving the players a place to be a part of something bigger than the individual - a team. When Macca (or Hunt, or any play maker) gets the ball, they should have room and time to create the play, not have their runners in the same horizontal plane as them so they have nowhere to go but the grass seconds after they get the ball under a pile of defenders. To me, this is a simple basic of football in any code: depth and of course, support play, which is a simple matter of repetition until it's second nature. [/QUOTE]

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