Alan79
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With the rumour now going around that Lichaa is being shopped around it raises some questions for me.
I've watched Lichaa for two seasons now and notice that he rarely passes early to a forward who is steaming onto the ball. Most of the time he makes a three foot run, turns and passes to a forward who has to slow down to avoid getting in front of him. This often results in our forwards being on the end of something close to a hospital pass.
Now I watch Klemmer and Eastwood who probably have the most acceleration out of our middle men. They can still make impact in games where Graham and Tolman often get creamed. I think its because they have the ability to add a touch more pace after getting the ball.
Lichaa is the first link in the chain of play and our forwards have declined in dominance since Ennis left. I have to wonder if a big part of that is because Lichaa just won't give them early ball.
Not trying to bash Lichaa, I just don't think he needs to take three steps out of marker every time he passes the ball. I do get annoyed with watching him run to a metre short of the line to pop our props a hospital pass. Ennis may not have been creative here, but our forwards dominated while he was our 9 and he mostly just gave them good early ball which allowed them to hit pace before hitting the defense.
I do think that Lichaa q touches of quality in his game, but I want to see him learn to pass off the ground and only make scoots from DH when the defense is napping. The opposition can see right now that they just have to watch what side he scoots on and get ready to line up the prop who gets a late pass.
To me this makes sense. It's a simple thing to alter for Lichaa and if it means our pack gets back to the dominant force it was 2 years ago I think he needs to work hard at it.
I know people are going to Desbash and say he's to blame but this is how I see things with our dh service.
I've watched Lichaa for two seasons now and notice that he rarely passes early to a forward who is steaming onto the ball. Most of the time he makes a three foot run, turns and passes to a forward who has to slow down to avoid getting in front of him. This often results in our forwards being on the end of something close to a hospital pass.
Now I watch Klemmer and Eastwood who probably have the most acceleration out of our middle men. They can still make impact in games where Graham and Tolman often get creamed. I think its because they have the ability to add a touch more pace after getting the ball.
Lichaa is the first link in the chain of play and our forwards have declined in dominance since Ennis left. I have to wonder if a big part of that is because Lichaa just won't give them early ball.
Not trying to bash Lichaa, I just don't think he needs to take three steps out of marker every time he passes the ball. I do get annoyed with watching him run to a metre short of the line to pop our props a hospital pass. Ennis may not have been creative here, but our forwards dominated while he was our 9 and he mostly just gave them good early ball which allowed them to hit pace before hitting the defense.
I do think that Lichaa q touches of quality in his game, but I want to see him learn to pass off the ground and only make scoots from DH when the defense is napping. The opposition can see right now that they just have to watch what side he scoots on and get ready to line up the prop who gets a late pass.
To me this makes sense. It's a simple thing to alter for Lichaa and if it means our pack gets back to the dominant force it was 2 years ago I think he needs to work hard at it.
I know people are going to Desbash and say he's to blame but this is how I see things with our dh service.
