JLT game 3

[sydneybluesfan]

Unfortunately, this seems to be accurate.

It appears to be a facet of the game plan this year, i.e. lots of short quick hand passes to try and get the ball to a player under less pressure. Laudable idea if players have the skill and anticipation to carry it off; laughable otherwise.

RR - It's the Bulldog model and it's all the rage - but it is high risk, high return. The problem I see is if you use this method for it to work well you need to outnumber the opposition at the contest, and be able to spread hard to create the free man to give the handball too who can then kick it. You also need good close in skills, and good decision making and vision about who to give the ball too.

We lack a lot of those skill fundamentals, and even Murphy and Gibbs are not great at it as mentioned above. And hand balling to Cripps, Curnow or Kerridge [just to name a few] for them to kick it is a recipe for a turnover.

But no matter what your game style is, when you have as many poorly skilled players and players with poor decision making as we do you are going to struggle big time.