Deathspell
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Since we have a tight defense,Montoya is forced to field further in and has a lot of real estate to cover to the sideline.Montoya was doing fine last season yet now all of a sudden he isn't NRL standard and his form has massively dropped off. Hmm i wonder why? Our roster isn't that bad, we certainly shouldn't be playing this bad.
So what if i'm over critical? Like i said Pay came in and talked shit saying we were going to do this and that yet the bloke hasn't delivered a thing and looks completely clueless.
To compound his problem,the 3 defenders on his inside Hoppa,Foran and JJ slide as they wait and hold, in contrast to the left side who slide and rush up.
When defending inside our 20m Montoya is being caught in two minds.Uncertain whether to guard the outside and let the sliding defense reach him,or drop back for the kick and hope the defense slides enough to cover his position.
Our problem starts in the middle.The sliding defense is not reaching JJ fast enough,this slows JJ's slide,which in turn slows the other 3 outside him.Tolman fixed this problem by improving the middle sliding defense to JJ (a job he does well,that most people fail to see).Against Raiders Pay entrusted Elliott with this task and although he was successful in maintaining a drilled slide to the right his poor ability to defend both sides of the ruck exposed our left side and middle instead.
Pay changed this a little bit against Souths and Raiders when defending on the 30m line.Hoppa and Foran slide independently of JJ whilst Montoya rushes the 1st receiver from 3rd man in.
Until our middle defends to a drilled sliding structure,we will continue to have problems when defending inside our quarter.Our outside backs will get overlapped,harassed by fullbacks or caught out of position for the kick (Sezer exposed this to perfection).