I don't know what some people see, but I believe most people look for things that people have spoken about in the past and expect to see it now.
Wayne Bennett has a pet play. We saw it at the Broncos and he took it to the Dragons.
Wayne is not an innovative or creative coach, but he has the priceless knack of getting people to believe in him.
The early Broncos teams were built around adhoc individualism. Wayne then decided to listen to Jack Gibson and decided that a grinding power game ( as Coxy suggested ) was the way to go.
This was the blackest of all Broncos eras and probably exposed Wayne's lack of ability to construct a game plan based on set plays - a necessity when the individualism had gone. At one stage he thought he didn't need a specialist halfback.
Post Wayne, Ivan was too scared to rattle cages because of egos and Wayne's shadow.
About a month ago, Ivan decided to coach like he played - in an industrious and clever way. I have seen more creativity and innovation in the last 5 or 6 weeks that I have seen for a decade.
Ivan, and I was a harsh critic during his lost and confused period, put his stamp on the team.
I like the look of what Ivan has added.
We have more set plays now than Wayne ever had.
Quite simply, Wayne had to go. He doesn't have creative ideas, and the players needed some ideas.
Thankfully, Ivan has emerged from Wayne's shadow and has some genuine inventiveness.
It fell apart against Melbourne in a flat performance, but there are real signs of Brisbane playing a very enterprising brand of footy.
As I said the sheep, who let other people see and think, should think but not speak.
See it for what it is now.
Good signs.
A good reference point would be West Tigers of a couple of years back.
To Ivan, coach like a shrewd halfback, not a string bean winger.
