Friday, May 14, 2004
Comings, goings, goings and Lowe-ings
Coming (back) is Noh Moo-hyun, the Korean president who was impeached by the majority opposition controlled congress in Korea a couple of months ago. The public reacted angrily and the opposition party were whipped in the recent elections and now the nine man Constitutional Court has voted to re-instate him. Shame you GNP dicks.
First to go is Motu Tony, who I can now scratch off my list of Kiwis in the NRL. It seems he left of his own accord to a larger bucket of money but who ever really knows with these things.
Second to go is another $154 at the dentist putting me up to a $580 which I am now putting on the Bulldogs (well in my dreams anyway).
And for once Graham Lowe is talking an entire column of sense. What's that all about?! The Warriors had a fantastic season when they made the grand final, really tearing the competition up during the course of the year. Last year they played a more boring style which still worked reasonably well but not as well as before, but this year they have taken it to an even more boring/conservative style which is working even less. Instead of continuing with the theme of how the team was playing Anderson decided they could only go to the next level if they eliminated their mistakes altogether. But when you make it easier for the opposition to be comfortable in the field you allow them to mess your game up. Maybe they simply don't quite have the team to win the competition, so it's therefore the coaches job to get them as far up the ladder as they can. The greatest coach in the history of the game couldn't win a premiership with the current Rabbitohs even if he had 15 years to try.
It's simply not in their nature to cart the ball up like several of the weaker Aussie teams do. The Roosters, Bulldogs, Broncos, Knights all play attacking football on the back of a couple of solid hitups by their good props. They don't cart the ball up 5 times and then kick it which is what we are trying to do, thinking it will actually win games. That's so one dimensional that opposition teams can just belt you and force mistakes. It also means they have gas in the tank later in the game. The way to beat teams is to stretch them and run them off their feet. It's THE TOUGHEST COMP IN THE WORLD FOR GODS SAKE ;).
First to go is Motu Tony, who I can now scratch off my list of Kiwis in the NRL. It seems he left of his own accord to a larger bucket of money but who ever really knows with these things.
Second to go is another $154 at the dentist putting me up to a $580 which I am now putting on the Bulldogs (well in my dreams anyway).
And for once Graham Lowe is talking an entire column of sense. What's that all about?! The Warriors had a fantastic season when they made the grand final, really tearing the competition up during the course of the year. Last year they played a more boring style which still worked reasonably well but not as well as before, but this year they have taken it to an even more boring/conservative style which is working even less. Instead of continuing with the theme of how the team was playing Anderson decided they could only go to the next level if they eliminated their mistakes altogether. But when you make it easier for the opposition to be comfortable in the field you allow them to mess your game up. Maybe they simply don't quite have the team to win the competition, so it's therefore the coaches job to get them as far up the ladder as they can. The greatest coach in the history of the game couldn't win a premiership with the current Rabbitohs even if he had 15 years to try.
It's simply not in their nature to cart the ball up like several of the weaker Aussie teams do. The Roosters, Bulldogs, Broncos, Knights all play attacking football on the back of a couple of solid hitups by their good props. They don't cart the ball up 5 times and then kick it which is what we are trying to do, thinking it will actually win games. That's so one dimensional that opposition teams can just belt you and force mistakes. It also means they have gas in the tank later in the game. The way to beat teams is to stretch them and run them off their feet. It's THE TOUGHEST COMP IN THE WORLD FOR GODS SAKE ;).
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