Flanagan can't do it all himself, he will need a strong forward pack to give him the time needed to make the right play. Its going to come down to the forwards to lay the platform. They need to make strong metres each game and out muscle the opposition pack, The forwards need a hell of a year.
It’s not the forwards making metres that’s been our biggest problem in recent years.
What the forwards need to do is work the ball up the field and then get the F*#K out of the way when we get to the opposition’s 20m.
The biggest issue which i hope Flanagan can help fix. Is the lack of a genuine playmaker. Be the dominant voice and direct players where he wants them in attack.
TBaz is going to be key with this also.
Hasler’s last couple of years he lost touch with the way the game had changed. Pushing the forwards at first receiver then play out the back.
Every team reads it so easily. Then Pay comes along with NFI. I swear he never had a game plan.
So the players keep doing what they did with Des.
TBaz & Flanagan need to make this happen. Our play makers in recent time simply have not been up to it.