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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3144110, member: 9052"] Totally agree which is why we need more than one voice organising the defensive line. Even if an Oates, Croft or Staggs knows they’re outnumbered they should be communicating it. If they know they’re outnumbered they’d know the attack is coming at them and instead of trying to slide on an overlap they could’ve shot off the line to put pressure on the ball and force them to make tougher passes, potentially causing an error. Likely they still score but it makes the execution harder on the attack despite there being a massive overlap. If one of Oates, Croft, Herbie or Coates saw the overlap coming then they needed to let the inside men know and everyone rushing up with the fullback trailing and protecting the kick behind.. spotting it and not telling the inside men is poor communication. They need to be training these structures non-stop, because defence is our number 1 issue... errors, penalties and 6 agains hurt us because we can’t defend them. If we can defend then we will score enough points to win the game The chopping and changing of personnel isn’t helping either... injuries and suspensions aren’t helping in that aspect and we are looking at more changes in the coming weeks with Glenn going down, Fifita and Staggs coming back, Herbie more than likely going to left wing... and nonstop calls to bring Dearden in. The big call to me will be if Fifita returns on the right or left edge... right edge should be his long term plan, but Glenn going down may see an interim approach to put him on the left where he was last year, but that is just delaying the inevitable move over to the right. I would like to see Oates moved to the left ... rather than TPJ moved to the left or Fifita on the left. Oates has played left side most of his first grade career and would be aware of the communication between Boyd and Milf. Even though he has been on the wing he would know what shape to that edge looks like. TPJ is a middle... leave him there to focus on his game. Fifita is a right edge forward... get him there to work on combinations with Croft, Staggs and Coates. These guys aren’t confident enough in their own games to be jumping between positions on the field... sort out your full strength lineup and keep the players in their nominated positions [/QUOTE]

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