03-27-2021, 11:15 PM
(03-27-2021, 10:43 PM)cookie2 link Wrote:I think our poblems reef back to the place where they have been for a long time now. The midfield. Unfortunately its heart, i.e. Crippa, is not firing atm and maybe that is affecting others around him. Walsh is fighting desperately to fill the vacuum but he can't do it all and others need to also step up. Our midfield coaching group needs to lift its game also.Agree cookie but we have been saying this since the start of the rebuild. SOS failed in getting in ready made support for in this area imo.
Our midfield just doesn’t bat deep enough when all we have is 3 A/B graders in the starting group. The rest that roll through there are lucky to get a game imo.
Dow, LOB, Kennedy, SPS, Cunningham, setterfield and fisher were targeted originally for this area yet none delivered on what we envisaged they would become.
If even 3 of that group developed they way they should have we would be a drastically improved team. Games are still won in the midfield and we are up against it every week. The flow on effect is the forwards get poor delivery and the defence has to cope with too much space for opposition forwards to work in as our mids are just not up it defensively.
Brisbane rebuild started after us the main defence is they got ready made mids and used the draft to top up. We did the opposite.