Charriots Offiah wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:58 am
Mike wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 11:53 pm
I'm concerned about our lack of metre making in the top level games. We won the WCC and the GF with defence and little field position. For some reason we're not making inroads on our out sets and finding ourselves pushed deeper and deeper.
We currently need incredibly commited defence, and the occasional break from our stars to get downfield. Imagine how good we'd be if we could roll up field a little more often!
We made more metres than HKR.
i'll be honest at the game, i didnt think there would be much in it re metres made. We started well, they grew into it and started to win the territory battle, then French struck

. We made more breaks than KR did, and may perhaps have tilted the M in our favour. KR were very much up the middle and never really broke us down, where we earned the right up the middle and made our yards out wide with French, Field, Wardle. Luke Thompson made some really good yards, and dents in the KR line and Mago when he came on likewise
I think our style change a little from last year with as Keighran isnt the same sort of centre as King was. Last year we really relied on the back 4 of Miski, King, Wardle and Marshall getting us on the front foot. i'm not knocking Keighran but he hasnt had the same presence as King in that respect. There were games last year where the 4 of them took the ball, and we were well into the opposition half after 4 drives
anyway, i think the original comment was possibly slightly ultra critical. We beat Penrith (yes, very much off the back of some great defence) but we scored 3 excellent, well worked tries which werent just individual moments of brilliance. We also forget that French has an excellently executed try chalked off from the scrum kick (ok so perhaps not excellently executed as it got disallowed

), so we bust Penrith 4 times without relying on French or Field to make a break