Morris is our defensive coach and I think he’s done a pretty good job this year. If anything our major deficiency is in redzone attack and end of set options. This is a specific technical requirement and one I think should be relatively easy to cover. Neither of which seem like an Obrien speciality either. A no from me. I like sharks redzone structure, would look at their assistants
It's weird, however the issue with our attacking structure in the red zone is we don't have forwards or centres that are running on to the ball. I say weird because its glaringly obvious, yet we don't seem to be doing anything about it. Even when Luai does his jink to the left and the right the rest of the team seem to be more mesmerised than the opposition. As soon as he starts moving laterally you all run a line and give him some options. The guy has spiders on him when he has the ball and defensive lines just seem to hold off on tackling him. We were criticising both he and Galvin for running too sideways... the issue is they are looking for a player running a line and none seem to be interested bar Taylan May and Samuela also Seyfarth does it every now and then. Twal/pole/Terell/Sukkar etc.. tend to get the ball flat footed and have no momentum in the red zone, its bloody infuriating and it's actually something that should be easy to fix.
Hopefully a full pre-season of Taylan/Samuela showing how it's done and KPP injected will sort it out....I say this because the key to red zone attack is condensing to first try to go around, as it's more difficult to go through the middle because the defence is in your face and the wingers and fullback are in the defensive line. So you condense the defence with the big boppers and then strip for numbers out wide. If that does not work you have likely created holes through the middle as defensive lines spread to contain the attack out wide, so you come back through the middle. Watch the Panthers and Storm do it, they move the opposition around like pieces on a chess board.
Noddy “retires” as NRLW coach….
Enter coach Adel
