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From all I’ve heard from players and coaches, they want to play an open “eyes up” footy. The opposite of AOB ball.

So there is a good chance we may cough the ball up more often. We will just have to strike a good balance. You don’t want to see stupid mistakes.

I’ll wear it to point in early games if they are doing an backline play.
 
In all seriousness though:
- Kind of think given the roster we need to go away from structure and emphasise principles more. Focus more on moving the ball quickly and bringing players onto the ball with time and space rather than precision in running patterns. In fact I think we should look to run fewer decoy lines but make sure it’s the guys who are the best at it and they’re running with conviction. Worry more about the finer points once the basics are looking better.
-We probably leave 6-12 points out there every game due to a lack of pushing up in support, a lack of competing in 50/50 situations, etc. Stop going through the motions and start going to the game.
- Should be looking to offload a lot. Dylan Lucas, Bradman Best, Trey Mooney, Dylan Brown, Cody Hopwood and Tyson Frizell are all varying levels of good at it. Other teams don’t want to have to deal with it. Brown and Sharpe are two of the most dynamic players in the comp off the back of an offload.
- Melbourne Storm, no matter who’s in the halves, end like 60% of their good ball sets by chip bombing to a tall winger. Maybe we should consider ever doing that with the one we have who’s as tall as Michael Jordan.
- Will obviously be looking very hard at how Dylan and Fletch combine in the halves. I worry about Dylan putting the running game away with everything else that will be on his plate, and I hope Fletcher has improved a lot in how he brings men onto the ball.
 
I want the team to play what what they see Infront of them and have a go.
Take risks.
Have fun playing football.

Unlike AOB ball
 
I was going to say, I’d love to see the defence we displayed in the early/mid part of last season. We were defensively sound, just couldn’t score points. I think defence shows a lot about mindset.

I think the cowboys are towards the bottom this year. So I’m curious to see how we go. Keeping in mind, I think we have much more room for improvement and a higher ceiling. We are very much at the start of our new coach new philosophy, whereas they are very much at the end of Payten’s gameplan. (TLDR, we should improve as the season progresses, I don’t think they will).

I’d absolutely love to see some attacking plays/shapes that look like they’ve been practiced 100 times over pre season.

I want to see Brown run the ball. Just enough that the defence don’t know if he’s a playmaker or a running 6 either.

Lastly, I want a 40/20. Or a 20/40. God, I love those.
 
Also I wouldn’t mind if Kalyn Ponga & Fletcher Sharpe combined like they’ve met each other before.

Will be flabbergasted if Brown doesn’t combine well with his fullback because he has his whole career, whether more of a passer like Gutho or an elite ball runner like Kini. But Kalyn and Fletcher had more bad moments together than good.
 
He should probably try to avoid overplaying his hand then.

I suspect that how this is going to work is that they’re going to try to have Kalyn play like a half again with Sharpe roaming around like a fullback. Hate it of course but he’s been around longer than anyone else in our spine so he should have picked up on *something* veteran halves do for their teammates by now…
 
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slotmachine said:
I wouldn't expect much from KP today, he usually looks **** for a few weeks after a long injury layoff.
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I hope he us under utilised if anything today. I don't mind him loitering around the ruck and having a run directly off a quick ptb, otherwise he needs to trust his halves to find him out wider. He won't always get the ball when he thinks he should because we have a lot of running threats, but he needs to be patient and concentrate on support.
 
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