(09-06-2024, 12:37 AM)Professer E date Wrote:I look at the other sides and think that we have pissed away a golden opportunity to have a serious shot at pinching a flag this year. Chances like that come around very rarely.Yes, but it's not a recent issue, many saw this coming 8 weeks ago.
For years so many on here and other forums have been calling for support for Cripps, a big body in the Midfield to share the load, it's obvious there is a need for that, no single point of failure.
Then we go with a solo KPP, KPF, KPD and Ruck, doing the exact tactical opposite of sharing the load we overload them. No matter what the naysayers claim, fatigue kills, it leads to injury and loss of form, and that is exactly what happened. Even more stupidly, excluding a week or so ago, we continued to play the same basic game plan with a fraction of a usual resource.
Players aren't numbers on a spreadsheet, you just can't drop them on the field and have the numbers sort it all out, they are a finite resource that has to be managed.
What we did was wasteful, we didn't respect the limited resource, we behaved like a bunch of corporate knobs.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"