Worst Defence In the Competition

[KiwiDog7]

There is more to it, the players that are injured aren’t on the field …

[emoji23] i was gon say that [emoji23]

 

[Roll the Bones]

Still can't believe no one contested that first bomb of the game, on the first set. fmd, that was embarrassing for a NRL side. If that cut out that first 5 minutes of the game, good chance we win tonight.

 

[Caveman]

We have the worst defence in the competition, yet our coach is known as an excellent defensive coach, what can we put it down to?

258 points against to date

Generally other teams scoring lots of points against us.

 

[Roll the Bones]

Generally other teams scoring lots of points against us.

Basically, get a repeat set against us, and your a 90% chance of scoring.

 

[Bob dog]

Its still a conspiracy and they always fight back, the ref literally gave them a try in the first half.
When I watch the footy I wanna watch the footy, if people have issues it shouldn't be fought out in the public domain., sorry if things spill over, too many fingers in the pie
Still on a learning curve as a team with the rookies getting experience.

 

[D.O.W.]

We have the worst defence in the competition, yet our coach is known as an excellent defensive coach, what can we put it down to?

258 points against to date

Dude, wait until magic round is over first before posting this thread - Tigs and Cows might cop a pasting.

Having a huge amount of injuries, players on one leg, and short turnarounds, defensively we’re doing ok, it’s the 1-1 misses that have been disappointing & tonight there was a couple.

Easy for us to get frustrated, but they’re actually going ok considering - they lost by 4 against a full strength Raiders who had an extra days recovery.

 

[Mitch Connor]

The space behind the ruck is a massive concern. We are lucky we haven’t played more of the good teams.

 

[ElMagicElMasri]

I’m not really concerned by this until we actually string a consistent line up together for 4-6 weeks

There are enough signs to say that our edge and tackle technique have improved a lot

I was actually a lot more concerned about our attack before the last 2 weeks where it has improved

I’m definitely happier now than even after the sharks game TBH but if we want a sniff of the 8 we need to win our next 2, although I don’t really care if we make it or not this year

 

[Scoooby]

Worst attack and worst brains too.

Not a good combo...

Yet still give the raiders a good go, not too bad when you put above in and all the rest lol.

 

[steve1700]

Injuries, lack of playing same team week in week out… people need to realise that it takes time to defend next to a new player every week. Once the team begins to finally play back to back matches with the same line up then defence will get better.

As frustrating as it is I agree with this a new side players out. They didn't give in went to the death good game minus some soft tries from Canberra.

 

[Chris Harding]

We have the worst defence in the competition, yet our coach is known as an excellent defensive coach, what can we put it down to?

258 points against to date

Last year, the Raiders would have won by 30 points. This year, we have an injury ridden side. The possession was with the Raiders when it mattered.
Yet, we still put 30 points on them. I'd call that a massive improvement on last year.

I can see a lot of positives as the Dogs work on their weaknesses and get their top squad back on deck. With JAC, Kikau, and Thompson in the side, we could have been on 12 points.

 

[CMP]

We have the worst defence in the competition, yet our coach is known as an excellent defensive coach, what can we put it down to?

258 points against to date

Lol Baz was the excellent attacking coach. When we couldn’t score a point.

Defence is an attitude/mindset thing. But it is something you want to have consistency with who is defending next to who. The injuries have killed is for this. We have players all over the place. In what should be a straight defensive line. We have countless players running out of the line and coming up with thin air leaving massive holes.

The key to defence is consistency in the lineup. It doesn’t look like we will get that this season.

 

[Matty]

We aren’t defending kicks well at all. Either letting in tries directly from kicks, or we’ll knock it on and let in a try in the next set. I think it goes back to allowing teams to put so many attacking kicks in against us, which is a problem in the forwards. We get rolled over far too easily. Raiders rolled all over us tonight especially in the first half. You don’t see the good teams letting in 78m in the first set. Teams simply don’t fear our forward pack as they’ve done in the past. We need a bit more aggression tbh

 

[Novdoggie]

Worst attack and worst brains too.

Not a good combo...

Just dumb shit!! Sometimes I can't beleive I am watching NRL.

Dumb, Dumb and Dumber.

 

[Bad Billy]

Admittedly, in the midst of an injury crisis, we've had 30+ put on us by some of the best attacks in the game.

 

[ILiveForDib]

Wilson or Skelton instead of him and it would be different.

Don’t know why he hasn’t given one of the two a shot we’ve seen all Declan offers and defensively it guarantees a try or two down his wing a game.

 

[_G-Dog_]

Dont have the cattle..

 

[Mr Beast]

We have the worst defence in the competition, yet our coach is known as an excellent defensive coach, what can we put it down to?

258 points against to date

The players not doing their job

 

[Hounddub]

We looked like 13 strangers on the field. So much to be said for teamwork Index and time played together. No continuity in selections due to injuries.

Our left side defense in particular was terrible. But hey, what do we expect from Casey/ Alamoti who are just kids.

 

[True Blue]

Really shattered with our defence this has dragged on from previous years and is a major concern.
We have no mongrel in defence
Refereee didn’t give us a look in at all today.
Positive we fought till the end .
Negative learn to tackle FFS

And importantly our line does not move up as a line (look at Alamoti today). We need to meet the attack before it gets too far over the advantage line........unfortunately we appear to wait for the attack to come to us. Perhaps it is a question of fitness, which has been a problem for Dogs for the past decade. Not helped a lot by playing King today, when he was obviously not fit & ready.