16 minutes, 18 minutes

[Slippery]

This is how long it took Tony Williams and Tim Lafai to even touch the ball at the start of tonight's game. This is not a thread against Williams or Lafai. On the contrary, I thought they both had pretty good games.

I've been noticing this lately, and finally decided to actually see how long it took for the both of them tonight. We kept going down the right and losing it.

They are two of our most damaging runners with the ball (with the other dudes out injured/suspended), so I think it is a fairly large coaching issue if it is taking this long for them to even touch the ball. We need to have more confidence down the left flank instead of always passing to Reynolds for the same play.

The added work the guys up the middle and down the right have to do as a result of this is having an adverse effect on our petrol tanks. You can see this by how often we drop the ball and make bad reads down the right.

Need to spread the work around a little better. Hasler should get onto this - all the better sides do it.

 

[Chris Harding]

Watching tonight I could see Perrett standing way infield in defence, while his opposite winger was on the sideline waiting for a long ball. It looked so obvious that a well timed pass would guarantee a try. For some reason, Penrith ignored a number of opportunities in attack to exploit this - even though it had paid dividends.

 

[Rodzilla]

and even the great combination try before halftime was trex just going on a run from dummy half because we had nothing happening

but also theres nothing wrong with a softening up period early, trex can come in when its soft

 

[Papa Emeritus]

Watching tonight I could see Perrett standing way infield in defence, while his opposite winger was on the sideline waiting for a long ball. It looked so obvious that a well timed pass would guarantee a try. For some reason, Penrith ignored a number of opportunities in attack to exploit this - even though it had paid dividends.

The winger follows the centre. Don't be so hard on him.

 

[HajdukSplit]

There must be something about Inu that puts Perrett in two minds everytime the ball is shifted to their side of the field.

 

[Ndawai]

The winger follows the centre. Don't be so hard on him.

Thank God!!
Sounds like somebody knows exactly how a winger plays!! repped!!

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Panthers tries were both scored when Lafai came in to tackle a man who was already covered leaving Perrett with 2 on 1.

Lafai also made some terrible decisions including taking out two players off the ball (got away with both but could easily have been crucial penalties). His try was good though.

 

[Bad Billy]

The winger follows the centre. Don't be so hard on him.

Exactly !
The problem out there is, when we play "up and in" inu comes in too early, making that cutout pass an option for the opposition. He should work with Browne and lafai, because they do it much better, they wait on their man, force the halves to make a decision, then stick em as they're receiving the ball.

 

[Rodzilla]

Panthers tries were both scored when Lafai came in to tackle a man who was already covered leaving Perrett with 2 on 1.

Lafai also made some terrible decisions including taking out two players off the ball (got away with both but could easily have been crucial penalties). His try was good though.

inu defends on the right inside perrett, but even if they leaked 2 tries again the overall defensive performance from the team was excellent, and they even shut down some situations

 

[gibbo2]

You could go in one further to identify the issues of our right hand defence. Reynolds is the main culprit of rushing up and in