It's hard to understand how for the very long term our club's coaching and recruiting staff seem so oblivious to our lack of heavy bodied leg speed.
They complain about our slow starts, like it's an attitude problem. But I'd say our primary problem is we can't keep up when the heat is on in the opening minutes, no matter how hard we try we just haven't got the leg speed and if we don't get first use of the ball we're out of the contest.
Cripps, Curnow x 2, Setterfield, Gibbons, SPS, SoJ, etc., etc., might be able to use strength and aerobic capacity late in a quarter, but it will always be coming back from a deficit. We need to find ourselves a high speed heavy bodied tackler in short term.
Last weekend, until the legs slowed, Cripps and Setterfield were always two steps behind similar sized blokes like Petracca, Oliver and Tomlinson.
In the past we'd have SpecialK squaring the ledger and preventing opposition taking the ball away, but we haven't now and might not ever have him again. I have hope for De Koning.
This is not a new problem, it's been our problem since back in the days of Kouta.
They complain about our slow starts, like it's an attitude problem. But I'd say our primary problem is we can't keep up when the heat is on in the opening minutes, no matter how hard we try we just haven't got the leg speed and if we don't get first use of the ball we're out of the contest.
Cripps, Curnow x 2, Setterfield, Gibbons, SPS, SoJ, etc., etc., might be able to use strength and aerobic capacity late in a quarter, but it will always be coming back from a deficit. We need to find ourselves a high speed heavy bodied tackler in short term.
Last weekend, until the legs slowed, Cripps and Setterfield were always two steps behind similar sized blokes like Petracca, Oliver and Tomlinson.
In the past we'd have SpecialK squaring the ledger and preventing opposition taking the ball away, but we haven't now and might not ever have him again. I have hope for De Koning.
This is not a new problem, it's been our problem since back in the days of Kouta.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"