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Message: [QUOTE="Jedhead, post: 3154933, member: 9518"] I agree wholeheartedly with your observations Pete. We also need to remember it's only Stagg's 2nd season so he's still learning. You have to ask yourself though, shouldn't those [I]dumb low percentage plays [/I]have been coached out of him by now? I know it was Joffa's responsibility to catch that drop out after Deardon's lovely little grubber, but again shouldn't coaching dictate that we have our aerial specialist Coates there ready for the inevitable of a short kick-off. Nevertheless, Joffa should have still caught that by using his height and obvious build to his advantage. I'm not saying Tommy is a cat, I think he's a raw tough little bastard, but he's only played a handful of first grade games and having Wade Graham steaming full force at you would (I imagine) rattle the shit out of most rookie half backs. I'm sure he'll grow from that experience. I recall Locky's howler at fullback as a rookie so it happens to the best too. Also, the two very poor attempts of our own short kick offs from re-starts from Milf would suggest their fukc around at the captain's run could have been much better spent. Milf's goallne dropouts were also so lacking in intention that his 'efforts' were dispensed with the very next drop out. We need someone who can drill these guys so that consistency becomes second nature. Our transitions from attack to defence are so slow, our wingers coming off their wing in defence. It happens every week so you'd think any astute coach would make those obvious weak points a priority. Isaac Luke's first couple of games looked full of promise to me. Fast forward a few weeks and he has regressed so much and seems to have lost any enthusiasm he had when he first came here. Our bench rotation struck me as someone playing lucky dip with the numbers, there was absolutely no rhyme or reason that I could see. Again, this has to come down to the coaching staff. Siebold's refusal (or inability) to read the flow of a game and let that dictate how he must improvise his bench rotation to take full advantage of the unfolding situation suggests to me a lack of coaching maturity that is bordering on blind arrogance. What might seem as the team improving one week then regressing the next is merely the waves coming in and out as our own King Canute tries to turn back the tide. [/QUOTE]

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