00:00Coach's Corner, another man who puts in the hours, Mr. Lee Addison.
00:03What do we have?
00:04We're still talking origin.
00:05Well, the glasses are already on because I've had some notes to read
00:08while I've been talking.
00:09I had all them stats before on the players' union.
00:11I had to have the specs on.
00:13Look, I've been critical of Laurie Daly's coaching.
00:15I've been critical of Nathan Cleary in rep football.
00:20I've got some more evidence, I think.
00:22If you look at the way a team plays, I think it's fair.
00:25Tell me if anybody disagrees with me that if the attack isn't clicking,
00:30the first two people you look at are the coach and the halfback.
00:33Anybody disagree?
00:35Okay, thank you.
00:36Now, the game changed with the send-off.
00:41What also changed was New South Wales' adaptation to how they play.
00:46So I'm going to share my screen.
00:49This one everybody's going to have to concentrate quite significantly
00:52because they're very subtle changes I'm discussing.
00:54Okay, so there's three ways you can coach football or play football.
01:00You can play very structured like robots and follow some coaching instructions
01:05to the letter and you do this on play one, this on play two, this on play three.
01:10You can play free.
01:12The second option is you can just play free, look up, count numbers, play.
01:16But I think the wise way is the third one where you do a comfortable mix of both.
01:21And right now in the National Ping-Pong Ruby League, the rooks are so fast
01:25that you probably need to put slightly more emphasis on looking up and playing
01:29on the back of a little bit of structure.
01:32So I'm going to look at New South Wales when the game was nil-nil
01:36and we're going to look at their attack.
01:38First of all, you can throw a net over all those players.
01:41They're all bunched up.
01:42Nobody's looking up to attack anywhere in the Queensland defensive line.
01:47I want you to start looking at the way numbers are tracking,
01:50but I also want you to start looking at how the eyes and the head
01:56of the New South Wales players are all looking towards the ball.
02:00Now, I've just frozen the tape there and can you see that Queensland
02:03have got one player still trying to track back into the defensive line?
02:06So that means they only have nine in the defensive line.
02:10So at some point around this halfway line, there's some space in the Queensland
02:15defensive line.
02:17The same space, let me tell you, that was available when they had one man sent off
02:20a bit later and they played completely differently.
02:24So my argument here is that New South Wales are following a structure too much
02:29and they're a bit nervous.
02:31Now, I've slowed this down here because count the numbers in the Queensland
02:35defensive line, I think you'll actually find there's eight players in the screen
02:41from a Queensland perspective, which means there's only five not in the screen.
02:46And simple mathematics suggests that New South Wales should have played
02:50down the screen as we look, not up.
02:52And they're just too busy following the structure.
02:55This is despite all the metrics in the game saying that there's more points,
03:00et cetera, they were sticking to structure and they're obviously trying to turn
03:04the Queensland defenders back inside.
03:06Well, that's all good.
03:07But I tell you what, there's no worse tackler in Rugby League than Greengrass
03:10and Fresh Air.
03:11And there was plenty of that in the Queensland defensive line.
03:15Here we have another example where they're trying to shift that,
03:18yet they've actually moved the Queensland defence to where they want to move
03:22the ball.
03:23And it's easier to read than a children's novel.
03:26And the Queensland defence is very much able to read it.
03:30And then look at this play.
03:31Now, though, there's three, essentially three markers.
03:35There's one dead Marine, but there's two people not even at marker.
03:39This is prime attacking territory for New South Wales.
03:44The Queensland line is going to be short defensively.
03:47The Queensland line isn't even set.
03:49But they're not even gone back with 10, as you can see in the screen.
03:53And New South Wales just take another carry.
03:57And this is why I criticise Laurie Daly.
04:00This is why I criticise Nathan Cleary.
04:03Although thou shalt not criticise Nathan Cleary,
04:05because he played well against 12 men a little bit later.
04:09Here's another example.
04:11And they're coming from their own half.
04:13And this time, they're 20 points to six down.
04:15And they probably need to do something pretty quick.
04:18That is a great play the ball from Brian Toto.
04:22And there's no shape in the New South Wales attack.
04:26They're not even looking to attack.
04:27They're not even looking to count the numbers in the Queensland defensive line.
04:32They've even got a good rook there.
04:34But they're just focusing on playing through the middle,
04:36despite the fact that the game is trending towards
04:39looking up around the halfway line and playing against some numbers.
04:43Here's yet another example.
04:46Soon we're going to go to the period where Queensland were going to go down to 12.
04:52Once again, New South Wales very bunched up.
04:55New South Wales only looking to do one thing,
04:58and that's head towards the middle of the field,
05:00head towards their spots,
05:02despite the fact that the Queensland defence is in sixes and sevens
05:06and struggling to recalibrate.
05:07When they do go wide and have a look,
05:10they just turn the ball,
05:12or sorry, they don't turn it back inside,
05:13but instead of going for the overlap,
05:15instead of attacking that overlap,
05:17that was just a carry straight into the defensive line.
05:19There's no adventure at all.
05:21Anyway, Queensland get a player sent off,
05:23and all of a sudden they start playing free-spirited football.
05:27Look at this.
05:28So everything I've just been calling for
05:30is now starting to happen.
05:32They've just attacked from around the halfway line.
05:35They didn't have to wait for Queensland to lose a player.
05:38Queensland were regularly losing a player in their defensive line
05:42because of the speed of the game,
05:44because of the speed of the rooks.
05:46Laurie Daly is still coaching a very old-fashioned style of football.
05:51Nathan Cleary is straight-jacketed as well.
05:54As soon as there was 12 men in the Queensland defensive team,
05:58sorry, not in the line,
06:01New South Wales were liberated.
06:03They took the shackles off, and look what happened.
06:06So all I'll say is
06:09Laurie Daly really has to change his tactics in Game 2 and Game 3,
06:14or else they are going to lose.
06:15They're going to lose.
06:16They're in a straight-jacket.
06:18They need to get out of that straight-jacket.
06:20There's more attacking talent in that New South Wales side
06:23than is being allowed to flourish right now.
06:34They're only gonna land this way in cod dato.
06:34They are right when they were injured.
06:34They're not a FER training call.
06:35They're going to lose.
06:35They're only Dame-1 vs.
06:35They're going to losing their right-jacket.
06:35They're going to lose.
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