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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2940494, member: 8988"] Name one time a defensive weakness has been exploited mid-game. A time when Milford or knik have identified a weakness and exploited it. They look a million dollars when our opponents tire. Running around tired players in front of you is one thing. Isolating a fresh defender is beyond their skill set. As for expansive play, for it to consistantly work we'd need to know when to use inside balls and when to spread it. Don't get me wrong . We do it and sometimes it works, but it usually is the result of something hatched pre-game, because when they wake up to it, our halves keep trying the same thing. When I talk about an expansive game, its not just throwing the ball wide and getting Roberts or Oates on the ball. We do that. The problem is they are usually well marked (unless their opposites are asleep). That's when you want your half to have a plan b or a joker up his sleeve. Milford made an amazing try out of nothing last week but it wasnt anything more than brilliant individualism. There was neither the skill nor the intent to use it as a consistent game tactic. They (Milford and knik) play what is front of them. Contrary to what people seem to think, I think we have the makings of a good pack. It's still pretty raw and there is a lot of injuries snd They have, and will continue to make mistakes, but they will make less of them if they are fresh. You say the good teams will score regardless. This much is true. But they will more readily exploit tired defenders than we can because they have the players to spot them, or a positional weakness (Melbourne comes to mind, but there are others). Our forwards are creative players. Tpj, thaiday, lodge, glen, even sims can all offload. They just need to do so with a retreating defense. Our forwards can put the their opposition on the back foot and have. They can't do so when they are effectively tackling machines for a side constantly constrained to its own half. Sure Roberts or oates can make a break in our own half. Sure we will throw the ball wide to get out, but how often has our expansive play been the result of a deliberate effort to break out of our half and not just some individual skill born of desperation. We need to wear our opponents down for those reasons. [/QUOTE]

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