Aeron Gribble

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Agree Rakshop it’s about knowing your players strengths and weaknesses. And developing a team around that.
It’s all the little things.
This forum has pointed out numerous weaknesses within the NSW side that the coaches have either missed or failed to correct with their team.
Defensive misses are going to happen at this level the players are too good individually. Just ask Val Holmes after playing the Tigers. But that is why your defensive structure needs to be at its best to cover those misses. Don’t blame Hynes he should never have been in the centres. Cleary missed him first and that’s what Munster does. It’s the game smarts and free flowing footy that Queensland play that allows them to score more points.
Footy 101. Munster knowing the speed of the defensive line at the start of a SOO grubbers behind the line. Try. Cleary doesn’t.
Footy 102 DCE isolates fullback with blindside bomb. Takes the centre and secondrower out from blocking runners and by kicking slightly in field takes out the winger. Becomes a contest tedesco is out leapt in. Not his fault. No defenders to help.
Cleary bombs constantly where Qld can get numbers around the kick.
Footy 103. Qld lose a player to the bin lose a winger to injury. Ben Hunt for a full set was on the left wing and NSW did not take one play down their right side, Cleary’s side. Next set Munster sees Nicho Hynes in the centres and thinks he is out of position lets test him. Heads up football. Try

Fittler picks 2 players, Young and Pangai with poor discipline. And it was costly.

Tedesco lacks the ability to regularly link with his outside backs. That is his biggest problem.
Cleary lacks creativity.
Sweeping ball movements are harder when the ball is coming slow from dummy half. Api might be crafty from dummy half but he takes time away from his halves . And with a rushing defense it exarcibates the problem.
Footy 104, if your time is being cut down by a rushing defence take a couple more steps back and give yourself room. The sweeping backline movement that led to Walsh putting Cobbo over starts with the depth of the halves.

In criticising all this Qld have their problems. Nsw had significantly more time in possession , metres gained and post contact metres. They dominated the game. If Nsw fix their attack and capitalise on their dominance with points Nsw would have won convincingly.
How do they fix it?
The spine needs to change. There is no fluency. You need players in 6 7 and 1 that are equally adept at chiming in on both sides of the field. And Cook needs to start. Campbell Graham to right centre. Lattrell doesn’t have the fitness to play fullback at origin unfortunately that leaves Turbo, Edwards or Kennedy.
Turbo if fit. If not Edwards.
Halves hynes and walker. They both provide superior service to their outside players. Defensively not as strong. But qld have always known to have their most creative players in the spine. They also have followed the Wayne Bennett mould of having strong defensive second rowers around them.
Billy Slater gambled on the Hammer and it worked. But it nearly didn’t. The Hammer admitted as much that Tulagai saved his defensive mistakes. And if NSW went that way more often they would have had success.
Liam Martin to start. A good hole running second rower is critical to sweeping backline plays.

ANALYSIS: Queensland's outside backs won them the game - because Brad Fittler does not learn

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