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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3148390, member: 9052"] In terms of the rule changes, almost everything that has changed in the game has impacted us. - Ruck infringements in your own end no longer give you a kick for touch and cheap meters up the field... so we are reliant on yardage out of our own end for field position and our outside backs are getting none - This has a double impact where if you cant get field position then you cant put any sort of attack on... we've basically been camped in our own end for 8 weeks now. I haven't looked at the numbers, but I can imagine we probably concede the most forced drop outs in the comp and probably have the least amount of tackles inside the opposition 20m, which is a sign of how much we lose the territory battle each week - In defence we were starting to implement the tactical penalties for our goal line defence to allow us to reset the line when it was under pressure... this has been changed to a 6 again. The good teams can give away a 6 again and reset their line mid set, but we have no organisation in defence to fall back on and no communication to get us back into shape - Also the weakest part of our defence is the middle third as we are regularly conceding +60m sets... this gives us no field position and has us defending attacking kicks and inside our 20m for basically the entire game. In order to change the field position we need our best yardage men in the back 3... in recent weeks we've had Niu, Coates and Isaako. For me Herbie and Coates are our best so they should be our wingers (I no longer want to see Oates on the wing)... fullback is a different story, but we need someone that can defuse the bombs. I'm not sure how Milf will go but at least this time at fullback he'll have actual halves in front of him and he's been taking dummy half runs in recent weeks to get his hands on the ball and they haven't been the worst. His ability to organise the defensive line will be another story though. The whole defensive setup needs a complete overhaul and having our defensive coach/ consultant in 2 days a week ain't gonna cut it... every week of training needs to be defence everyday until it's sorted out... there's no bye to fix it so we just have to sacrifice something else in order to fix it [/QUOTE]

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