The service could be better but the issue is their formations. They're far too bunched and what ends happening is that they'll have two attackers running at the one defender and that makes it easy for the defence to make a decision. The key to attacking the line is creating doubt and making the opposition make a mistake which isn't possible when you fail to isolate defenders.
The easiest way to do that is to spread out and have options on each play. Play short or out the back, and have a few pet plays for each team if you notice something about their defence. If they rush up early then be prepared to kick behind the line for Isaako, Dearden, Mead etc.
They need to get back to one of your favourite pet plays where the five eighth plays as the quasi fullback and goes the cut-out to the winger. That's where the points are for the Broncos.
They very much struggle at isolating defenders 1v1.
I wonder why teams have suddenly decided that a hitup on the post and then spreading it to the opposite edge is the way to go inside the 20m?
I would've thought the way to go would be getting it wider than that ... get your second rower 1v1 on their half, get your half on the outside of the second rower, get your center 1v1 on his opposite... have them work for a quick ptb and then do a long spread back to the opposite edge.
I thought the general consensus was that the longer the open side of the field is the harder it is to defend, as the defence has more field to cover... and therefore more opportunity someone will have a little bit of space somewhere along the line.
Based on that I would've thought in general that the game plan should be getting the ball to whoever is the best at getting a quick ptb and then working off the back of that... Souths do it with Murray, Storm with BSmith, Eels were getting it tonight with Papa and Kaufusi, etc.
The storm forwards are aware of how important a quick ptb is that it's basically the only thing they work towards, and the players come around and support the play the ball just as much as the try scorer.
For us the goal could be getting TPJ 1v1 on the half and then working from there. Through the middle we could look to get off the back of Haas... he finds his way between defenders, but he doesn't necessarily find his way onto his front and the value of a quick ptb.
Tonight Lodge threw a dummy, got between 2 defenders and then threw an offload to the eels player.... he was in prime position to find his front, create a quick ptb and let the team run off the back of it... he had two defenders tackle him low and was about 25-30m out, but instead of taking the tackle and providing a quick ptb he threw an offload.
It seems a lack of awareness across the squad.
It just doesn't seem like the team know what their fundamentals should be in attack... how are we going to score points and how do we get ourselves in the positions required to score points.
I was happy to see TPJ score off a DH play... It wasn't the best play, but it got him 1v1 and he easily got the try. We need some easy tries, we need some variety in our attack and different ways to score to take pressure off the halves and reduce our reliance on block plays to score (which don't seem to work for us anymore anyway).
