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Yeh I saw what you are saying, but it might have had some effect as Fogerty threw away two 'gimme' conversions and his overall kicking game was poor. This could have been caused by his energy being zapped by the extra workload in trying dealing to deal with Haas.One thing that I found a bit strange is that there was an obvious early game plan to run Haas out wide and target Fogerty.
He seemed to do this every run for the first 15-20 minutes. It didn’t really have much impact as they handled him well and Fogerty seemed unimpaired in attack.
I get the tactic, run a big guy at a half - it’s pretty straight forward. Kev did the exact thing once with TPJ on Sam Walker to great success. The strange thing is that it seemed to disappear after 15 minutes and never return.
Did Madge just give up on it? Did Haas stop following the game plan? Was it only ever intended to be the first 15 minutes?
It’s the kind of tactic that only bares fruit if you persist with it until the half is actually too tired to be effective in attack. i can’t see the desired outcome in making him tackle Haas for the first 10 to 15 minutes and then leaving him alone entirely the rest of the game.
For all the talk of us now having a wealth of leadership on the field I felt there was no one really driving us to make sure (Whatever game plan) and those sort of tactics you mentioned worked.
I'm waiting to hear if there was any underlying reason as to why Reece had such a mare of a game. I'd like to think he's at the crossover stage of his mindset and they way he plays the game. That phase of change invariably leaves the person totally confused until his mind resets and gets used to thinking in a calmer fashion. Last night it was working (i use that term very loosely) in almost direct opposition to his body.