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Message: [QUOTE="HarryAllan7, post: 3132319, member: 9372"] The key to success in any team based sport at a professional level is to build an effective SYSTEM. With injuries, salary caps, suspensions... it is no point on relying on specific players to ensure success, you have to build a really solid system with a simple but strong plan - a system where anyone with even average skills and measurables can step in and (if they put in effort) succeed. When this is done right, it elevates all the players in the squad. There is a reason stupidly average players (eg: Brenko Lee) go to a team like Melbourne and suddenly look good. Same reason players (like Jordan McLean) leave a team like Melbourne and suddenly look average. The Storm (as much as I hate them) have a rock solid system which does not rely on individual players or talent... it is a well oiled machine where the 'next man up' can slot in and do a specific job. Every player has a defined role and set of responsibilities. They are not sent out onto the park to 'play footy' - every position group has a number of set tasks they need to complete like clockwork and suddenly the whole team ticks. For you NFL fans, the New England Patriots are the example. It is about taking a group of players and creating something more than the sum of parts - turning players who wouldn't even get a run elsewhere into important contributors and cogs in the machine. It seems we don't understand this at all. The players look completely lost, directionless, clueless and we end up torn apart by teams who have much less talent across the board than we do. We rely on game-breaking individual brilliance to save us and have no backup plan. We don't need superstars, we need solid, hard-working players who can do a defined, simple job well... The fact that we have individual superstars and talent like Haas and Fifita should only be cherries on top of a well-drilled machine, so their gamebreaking brilliance is the final edge, not our only threat. Implementing a system is the responsibility of the coach, it was exactly what we thought we were getting with Seibold... but unfortunately I am yet to see it. It seems unlikely to me that all these guys suddenly forgot how to play overnight, or even that they're all completely apathetic about trying to compete anymore - I suspect either they have no idea what they're meant to be doing out there, or what they have been told to do isn't working (or they are unable to implement it)... All of these problems lead back to the coach. [/QUOTE]

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