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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3237574, member: 8215"] Two things that I think made a big difference last night: 1) Wrap the fucking ball up. Most of the tries and momentum came off the back of offloads from players we[I] know[/I] offload frequently. A bit of homework on how those particular players hold the ball would be great, but really, how hard is it to just wrap the ball up in every tackle regardless? 2) When we are being pinned on our own line, for ***** sake, why are all of our runners 5-10 metres away from the PTB and standing flat-footed? One-out running from your end can be effective if you follow the Roosters' playbook - the ball-carrier gets a run-up and is lined up to be no more than 1-2 metres from the ruck. Far enough away to not get tackled by a marker, but close enough for the pass to be almost instant and flat. For best results, have two runners! One either side or two next to each other to keep the defence guessing. And the next PTB has to be lighning, again, like the Roosters, not using your foot and throwing yourself at the markers helps the next runner. How many fucking times did we see a slow, loping pass 8 metres across and 5 metres back while the Storm defence was already hurtling towards us? This isn't on Turpin by the way, it was often one of the backs who went in to dummy half and threw the same passes to the same runners out wide - so it's clearly a positioning / training thing as to where the runners position themselves. Also, on the "the Storm are always doing the one percenters, like following through in case there is a break made", that is really fucking easy when you actually have the confidence that your team can make a break in the first place. Our support players in all likelihood have zero faith that we can get any attacking football going so have given up making the effort for an extremely unlikely "what if". It's not an excuse, criticising our effort is valid, because it's dog shit, but when you're Ryan CardboardHouse and BigDumbNelson is running at one of your opposition's exposed halves, it's not that hard to believe something may be on, so it'd be second nature to be up there in support. I'm kind of just saying that, in the rut we're in, it's fucking hard to dig your way out of it, everything is 10x harder. [/QUOTE]

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