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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 2696339, member: 1847"] I think you are spot on, yet I don't think it's that we are not top 2 material, which I think we are. For mine, what has been found out, and it's a valuable lesson, and it's been posted here before, is what a class spine + backline can do to our left side defence. While losing Moose and Blair is huge (cough cough) I don't think our pack, or work in the middle is the problem at all. Manly absolutely destroyed us by exclusively targeting our left side. Didn't they score most, if not all their points out wide on our left? They clearly watched a lot of videos of our left side defence and just worked very hard on how to exploit it's inherent vulnerability. That is where we were found out. Our left side, when put under real pressure by a relentless and super fast attack just can't react quickly enough. I just hope that this was a hiccup and Bennett fixes it. I actually think we are one of the few teams who, at their best (and we weren't that night) can withstand what Manly is capable of doing on the edges and out wide. The Bunnies certainly couldn't. The loss to the Dogs, who also tried to target our left side but don't have anywhere near the class spine and backline of Manly, was through slackness. Manly, vastly the better side on the day, totally out thought and outplayed us, whereas we let the very average Dogs win. Against the Dragons, if our mojo returns, if our structures and execution and attitude return to what they were, we will win. Just fix that left side Wayne, please. [/QUOTE]

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