Even putting yesterday aside, the ball the halves have got has increased since the Parramatta game and results have gone backwards. Hodgson hasn't run the attack to near the degree that gets suggested since then. I mean I'd guess our left edge would be the most used in the comp in that period.Woodgers wrote: ↑May 26, 2019, 11:13 amAgree to disagree Ed. I think the try scoring chances comparison is a long bow. Hodgson might be our most creative player but the broader issue is no one has the slightest idea what he's going to do so it is confusing everything. He needs to try simplify rather than try do everything which is what is happening. Ricky has thrown him the keys which makes sense but he also needs to monitor the situation and recognise that doing this has a domino effect on the other playmakers.edwahu wrote: ↑May 26, 2019, 6:49 am Hodgson isn't stunting our attack. It's overstated. Even yesterday we created 4 try scoring opportunities with him on the park vs one with Havili, which was just Havili scoring it himself. The previous two games we created enough to win as well.
Every week I also read about endless crash balls when the only game it was really that far above average was the Parra one, which was still our best performance this year. The last 5 or 6 weeks it hasn't even been above what most other teams do and stats show that the halves have got more than enough Footy during that period. if anything we should go back to Hodgson controlling even more.
CNK and the lack of a right side attack is a much bigger issue in attack at the moment.
By far the biggest drop off in attack stems from the reduction in tries created by our fullback and obviously the loss of the tries from nothing created by BJ, Bateman and Rapana. We have no right side attack and the left hasn't returned what we needed it to.