He wouldn't be telling our players to committ unforced errors.
Reckon he could have coached some form of strategy around kick-ins? Shot to the pocket then a contested ball 60m out hasn't been working since week one. No change.
I think Acres/Hollands/Cottrell is a better defensive unit than Acres/Hollands/O’Brien.
Boyd should be back too but I think that he would need a game or two to fine tune his kicking.
Training shots had both Boyd and Cottrell in action, both would be a risk but potentially important against a fleet of foot Saints team. If Saad and McGovern are out I would be tempted to bring both in.
Let's talk about injuries. Each and every year we play at a disadvantage, 10-15 blokes unavailable seems the norm. Decisions need to be made, a player who is a gun but isn't available is useless. Our fitness guru has seen no improvement in speed or injury rates. Fitness and injury management need a clean out. Players like Williams, Marchbank, Cunningham etc we need to play or move on. We can't be successful playing with a smaller list than the competition.
Fisher, Honey, Plowman, Ed just aren't up to it. Cripps, Cera, Harry all terribly down on form..We are a mile off the pace, lack of pace through the midfield is a real worry, especially with the saints next week.
What is our paln bringing the ball out of the backline? Short to a pocket then a bomb to the wing. Beginning to worry about the strategy side of Voss coaching.
Compared to Rnd 1 last nights game was at another level, skills were better, the opposition was better, we were better.
You can see why we will look back on Rnd 1 and feel it was a lost opportunity.
I feel Pitto coming in has shown the way for the ruck situation, his mix-n-match with TDK just works better in my opinion, you can clearly see the value Pitto brings when you need some heavy duty grunt work to put the brakes on the opposition.
Durdin coming in made a difference for Owies, Fisher and Motlop, that little bit extra run matters, Motlop getting up the field further also worked well, all were better this week.
We must play the two rucks but what does that mean for SOS? Are McGovern and SOS a direct swap, SOS down back as the third tall interceptor and McGovern out?
