Current Broncos team

[LittleDavey]

Yeah I totally agree with this train of thought...again, it comes back to the coaching staff. Maybe unfair to target Hook but he is the face of that staff, and the boss - if things aren't working, and it's clear they are not, then he is the one responsible to make changes. This is not happening.

Yes we are short in the halves; yes we have no speedsters; yes we lack on-field leadership (bring Alfie back! :tongue_smilie: ); yes we lack consistency. But we also lack structure, routine. Set plays. This is where the coaching staff are supposed to come in. A good coach will get around any shortcomings of his team by playing to their strengths. We don't do this. We might not be top 4 with this squad, but we're a damn sight better than 12/13/16 wherever the **** we're stitting right now. Our young guys should be improving, but they're all stagnating. This is an indictment on the coaching.

Our defence was what won us games last year. We had good line speed, good structure. The back half of last year it started dropping, and it never picked up again this year. Add that we look so damn tired after 10mins, and have all year since game 1...coaching staff are clearly way out of their depth. This has to change ASAP, or nothing will get better even with better cattle. I must admit I thought Kearney might be able to help, but I was clearly wrong, we've gone backwards since he joined.

Do we still have the financial clout we used to? Is something going wrong on the money side, is that why we can't attract quality coaching staff?? It feels as though *something* is going bad at the club. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[rnabokov]

Funny how Henjak was a reasonable coach with the personality of a robot while Hook is a personable chap whose coaching skills seem to be stuck at QCup level.

I'm prepared to cut the team a little slack for their performance against the Storm given the circumstances leading up to it, and how well we played for a lot of the time against the Warriors.

We also didn't have Hannant who, as Alec rightly posted, seems to be the key to the forward passing game which is the one candle which shines on Hook's "new" game plan, although it shouldn't be a matter for a prop to ignite a game plan.

But it is the inconsistency this side has shown which is so infuriating. This year, we have shown in patches we can match it with the best. My take on that is that there is friction and unrest in the ranks, disharmony even, and that Hook is in the thick of it.

Am I wrong? Is it all rosy in the squad?

What explains the terrific tries we have scored, and the thumping defence we have shown, except it's been that for say 20% of this season?

We have shown we can do it. We have also shown we don't and won't. That is what infuriates me as a fan.

 

[Mister Wright]

I think a lot of it comes down to Hook's game plan. It's almost like the most important thing for him is completions ahead of everything else, including scoring points. I think he is a bit gun shy after our first round loss to Manly. We were awesome in the first half, passing inside our own 20 and length of the field tries. It's almost like Hook said to himself, if we play like that we'll lose, so we have to be as clinical as possible.

 

[rnabokov]

I think a lot of it comes down to Hook's game plan. It's almost like the most important thing for him is completions ahead of everything else, including scoring points. I think he is a bit gun shy after our first round loss to Manly. We were awesome in the first half, passing inside our own 20 and length of the field tries. It's almost like Hook said to himself, if we play like that we'll lose, so we have to be as clinical as possible.

Hook's game plan ... as Einstein said, make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Hook's is simpler, and hardly clinical.

However, there is that forward passing game, and as you so SO pertinently observed: "We were awesome in the first half, passing inside our own 20 and length of the field tries."

We have done, and we can do it, but it would seem Hook won't let us, and that means in large part he is coaching talent out of players to the point they couldn't be bothered

 

[Mister Wright]

I meant clinical in getting to the fifth tackle. Not neccessarily (sp) executing the fifth tackle option.

 

[rnabokov]

I meant clinical in getting to the fifth tackle. Not neccessarily (sp) executing the fifth tackle option.

Point taken. Of course getting to the 5th was generally 4 one outs unless it was 10m from their line.

Clinically insane, yes