Well the coaching staff would have footage available of pretty much every minute of football the recruits and most youngsters have played since they entered a professional system. They've got a better idea of how frequently they all produce the moments we admire on the highlights clips and they don't have to watch it with shit rap music annoying them
So they'll have plans in place to improve individual flaws and they'll know what progress each player has made. We (most of us) see snapshots of training. The dedicated fans who make time to get to open training sessions see more, but less than those employed to review it all. Their future relies on getting it right and they'll give the team every opportunity for success that they can. Us fans can either complain or clap really. It'd be nice if we could try our hands at running a team. But most wouldn't want the hard work. Dealing with 30 (38 under the new rules) individuals who need some mental guidance as well as incredible training regimes to be at their best. Ego's aplenty would need nurturing. There'd be jealousy to contend with. I really think there'd be some real stress as a benefits package with the job.
So I have to be comfortable with the decisions that staff make. I'm not a Ciraldo fan boy. I think a lot of what makes a coach successful is the roster and ours is very much improved and he should do better with it this year. Every team would love to pick up a Crichton. Curran is a goer who might be another step towards an aggressive pack. Mann, Taaffe, Hutchison, Tracey, Salmon all give us plenty of options either as starters or off the bench. I could go on. But long story short, I think we're covered for most positions.
If Ciraldo can implement strategies to ensure the two team mates on either side of the prop taking a hit up are also threats, the defence won't dominate our forwards. If we can ball play before the line or pop sensible offloads to switched on support runners, the defence have to reduce how bunched they play instead of lining up three or four tacklers per hit up. It is a big ask to mastermind a strategy that asks a largely untested group of props to become offloading ball players. But if we could pull off a game plan where we could spread the ball wide at any time we might stay in touch with the top 8.
