Leeds Rhinos - southstander.com • Re: Desperate times desperate measures
For me a kicking half is the next critical addition, and clearly there is something in the rumour that Leeds are in for Hastings, for that reason.
I think hooker is an issue for 2020, to clean up our linkage a bit and take us into a more top-of-the-table proposition.
For survival I honestly think a quality half back gets us to safety this year. Our pack has been establishing enough field position recently, Ava's made a difference.
I'm tearing my hair out watching the effort some of the boys are putting in, and then we dish up some level of stupid play to stuff it up and put us on the back foot again. We just cannot apply any consistent pressure with this combination.
We're also creating zero space for our strike players, and so we give the ball to Newman, Hurrell or Walker and ask them to beat four or five SL defenders - really not playing as a unit. If you can position Hurrell with a 1:1 in the final 10 metres it would be a try most times, but we're asking him to run through entire teams from within our own half - it's really annoying me!
I think hooker is an issue for 2020, to clean up our linkage a bit and take us into a more top-of-the-table proposition.
For survival I honestly think a quality half back gets us to safety this year. Our pack has been establishing enough field position recently, Ava's made a difference.
I'm tearing my hair out watching the effort some of the boys are putting in, and then we dish up some level of stupid play to stuff it up and put us on the back foot again. We just cannot apply any consistent pressure with this combination.
We're also creating zero space for our strike players, and so we give the ball to Newman, Hurrell or Walker and ask them to beat four or five SL defenders - really not playing as a unit. If you can position Hurrell with a 1:1 in the final 10 metres it would be a try most times, but we're asking him to run through entire teams from within our own half - it's really annoying me!
Statistics: Posted by KaeruJim — Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:43 pm