It is as if we're terrified that the refs will penalise us if we play like the Storm or Roosters, and stand off side in defence when we have the opposition on their line. There is very little difference between conceding the odd off side penalty, and allowing them easy metres by not defending.
We seem cumbersome and drilled and don't have enough fluid numbers moving on the defensive line and are easily pinged by one sided refs. Old style footy with poor wrestle and our forwards aren't agile enough, mostly too small and nuggety, not dynamic runners or defenders.
They do a fantastic job for these deficiencies against other teams, who do have these subtlies of play and physique, but we need to maintain it for 80 minutes which is nye on impossible. Plus the backs don't do enough work creating off their go forward.
Both are reasons why we can rarely blow a team away. Add to that the inexperienced spine with no one leading and you have us at 12th.
You get the sense they are improving, albeit slowly, and if the form of last 7 games of 2019 is seen in Round 1 then there is a platform to work on.
They're our team and if this season is disappointing again with the same ol mistakes and selections, bench rotations hampering any decent results, then its the continual bloodbath and DD videos in TK I guess
Keen to see how their pre-season has gone and fitness, skill level.
