sam16111986 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 7:21 pm
25tiger wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 5:09 pm
Not sure where all the Youngs/Ford rubbish has come from, Youngs has been dropped for the last 2 weeks and the game was certainly gone before he came on and Ford showed more passion than most today, at least he made his tackles vs their 3 and 5.
Agreed Ford was again one of our better players. His cover tackles saved at least two tries and he put his body on the line. The tactics were to move the Racing pack around and that at times worked ok, certainly for our try.
Laughable that the suggestion is to bring Toomua to 10 when he is not close to his best form. Quite frankly if Eastmond hadn't been an idiot and got himself suspended Toomua might be benching.
I am definitely watching a different game to you pair!
In attack Tigers game is so predictable that even the laziest defensive line can drift at serious pace with absolutely no threat on the inside line to check the drift.
Tigers are attacking in one zone, outside G Ford, allowing the wave of cover tacklers to chase across outside breaks, they know exactly where to try and cover!
Make Ford check in and he'll hoof the ball away, utterly predictable!
As for defensively, a system is only as good as its components, it's a catch 22.
The forward/back trade off in covering space has been evident since Ford arrived back, do your job right and stay tight enough up front and Ford can be driven ten or twenty metres back and the entire defence is turned or overspread to try and stop that threat and be exposed themselves.
It's all over the place and they can't win whatever they do as they are simply being asked to do too much!
How on earth this is not being noticed is beyond me!