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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2924692, member: 8988"] I think for the broncos to turn things around they need to just fix very small things. The problem at the moment is the commitment to a plan. We go in trying to run rings around our opponents in up-tempo play, then wear ourselves out defending. We need to minimize the defence early on against teams with good kicking games. The problem isn't so much our ability to defend the line, but our ability to diffuse, being put on the back foot. Our kicking game and lack of go forward has been leading to a vicious game of catch 22, where we get trapped early for multiple sets, our forwards then cough it up running it tired or without a pass option (easy to put on a big hit and dislodge), then we go through it all again. Some of the those possession stats early in our games are horrible. A plan has to be made to one way or another get the ball into our opponents defensive 20 metres. I think thats why we were kicking early against the titans. It's just that our kicking game sucks (the idea being to trap our opponents with a good kick and chase, changing momentum). One way or another, it keeps coming back to possession and general play kicks. We hold onto it early, we look like a million bucks, our forwards grow a foot and put on 20 kg of muscle, our backs are the harlem globe trotters of league. We drop it, thaiday's dieting on maccas and our backs are looking at butterflies wondering why they gave up an afternoon of golf for some tackling. Since it's impossible to guarantee holding onto a football, we need a plan that gives the kick THE PRIORITY for the end of set. We should not make 1 hit up or 1 backline move that leads to our kickers having poor position beyond our opponents 20 metres. In fact I suggest that should be the prime motivation of our hit ups, not metres or line breaks. It's great seeing a break in our own 20, even better seeing a big forwards bending the line and putting us on the front foot, but we simply don't have the skill or poise to go away from a set that sets up the kicker to take the risk and have kodi kicking out on the full or milford feeding a ball down the fullbacks throat. We just cant keep doing what we have been. [/QUOTE]

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