Jedhead
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- Jan 8, 2018
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I seem to be missing your point mate. Of the five halves you mentioned there was only one (Deardon) who could be considered as an inexperienced rookie. Kelly was coming towards the end of his career and as I previously mentioned Milford and Croft had served under the two best coaches the NRL has produced to date. One of them going to within an ant's baw hair of winning a GF in 2015.Lots of halves- young ones mainly rely on skill and instincts not understanding the game.
Do you think Thurston could better understand manipulation of a defence at the Bulldogs or Cowboys in 2015?
I bet if you could stop mid game and ask a young half why did you turn that player under? A lot would say not too sure.
Then it's another layer again to be able to explain it to someone so they better understand- that takes, knowledge, experience and leadership. The Broncos cup wasn't exactly full of that.
So to bring it back to the point I was making. Pies at that time had plenty of experience in the halves that could have picked up those strategic planned moves if....and this is my main point if Pies and his coaching staff had focused on doing that. Instead they played loud music and ran around flattering to deceive. It was fairly obvious that aside from Boyd's sweep play the only other thing they knew was "give to Milf to put up a bomb on the fifth". Our attack was non-existent and as a result we were unable to put teams under sustained pressure. The 58 -0 point scoreline against the Eels brutally confirmed that.