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[QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3490351, member: 1899"] I decided to take up [USER=8536]@Super Freak[/USER]'s trip down memory lane and watched the R5 2007 game vs. the Gold Coast Titans. Titans won 28-16 in a frustrating loss for the Broncos. The main observation I took out of it was that the Broncos tried to play too fast. They'd earn good quick play the balls, but the attack would be completely out of sync with decoys getting in the road or the players standing flat on a big backline shift. Berrigan is remembered as one of the best dummy halves in club history, but based on performances like this I'd argue he was a quality player who happened to be at 9. He had a real issue with putting passes out in front of players and just getting the ball to the right parts of the field. The width of a Rugby League field is 68m wide, yet the Broncos attack only seemed to be concerned with the space 23m out from the right touchline. The idea is that they'd play through that channel and give Hodges good early ball, but by only playing through that part of the field, they didn't give Hodges & Tate any space to operate in. Frustration seeped in which led to errors which led to poor defensive efforts. Lockyer & Hodges in particular really stood out to me, with Mark Minichiello bumping both off easily when they had him covered. Then off a Titans loose ball, Hodges comes in off his centre and gives the Gold Coast a major overlap for no reason. The Titans go through the hands one side of the field to the other and make it 12-0. I had to have a look at my 3-2-1s apparently I went Civoniceiva, Eastwood & Karmichael. Based on what I saw, I would have voted for Karmichael who did his job at the back and was one of the few who looked likely with the ball. However I'd have to go through with a fine tooth comb for my other two players. It wouldn't take a strong argument for me to vote Civoniceiva, but if anything it seemed like a below par performance from his standards. Eastwood came up with two-three good plays, but not a whole lot else. If anything, he never seemed to be in position and it effectively hurt Locky's game who loves that crash ball. The Broncos tried to wind back the clock and had Tunza out in the centres so he and Berrigan could swap positions in defence. It started well with Tunza's defence forcing a goal line drop out, but as the game wore on he had 2-3 missed assignments that allowed the Titans to work it out of danger or led to tries. Apparantly I had no thoughts on this at the time, but 16 years later I can tell you it was a silly move and Bennett should have told Tate to suck it up and play on the left. I wonder why Bennett changed a winning team the week before? I was still off Darbs for ruining my birthday weekend, but still a comprehensive 32-10 win, I wonder what the story was? A couple of other notes - We need to keep track of Rugby League anamolies like scrums going against the feed, falcon tries etc. In this game we had a Lance Thompson style knock on off the goal-line drop out. - Speaking of goal-line drop-outs, nothing annoyed me more than the 'Terry Campese style drop-out kick' when Lockyer was banging those out on the regular for years prior. He was always good for a 50m+ drop out. - This game certainly put the Battle of Brisbane into perspective, namely on how to keep in touch even when things are going wrong. I was really impressed with the Capewell try for the Broncos, well executed and at a time where players were out on their feet. [/QUOTE]
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