Manu's tackling technique

[dice]

Where is manu in that 3rd photo?

In the 2nd photo the ball is passed to Jennings. Manu runs out of the line to stop him and is left behind on the 30m line.

[Headless Chook]

I will offer a different perspective. Flanagan is not as good a defender as what people think he is. Both Eels tries targeted Flanagan with forwards to create space for Jennings on Flanagan's outside. Note that we compress our defense on Flanagan's inside which creates space on his outside.

The third pic shows Flanagan being swatted away by Jennings in a front-on tackle before Sivo scored.

I doubt Robbo will find any fault with Flanagan in either of those tries. Every club targets the opposition halves with their back rowers, we do it all the time. As somebody else pointed out, it's probably more to do with communication and lack of trust on Manu's part if he's getting caught in field too much. Manu has to worry about one player in that first shot and it was Jenko. Hi getting caught on his inside shoulder is his fault and nobody else's.

[Thirteen]

It’s become a bit of a trademark for Manu to run up out of the defensive line but usually he is successful.

[dice]

I doubt Robbo will find any fault with Flanagan in either of those tries. Every club targets the opposition halves with their back rowers, we do it all the time. As somebody else pointed out, it's probably more to do with communication and lack of trust on Manu's part if he's getting caught in field too much. Manu has to worry about one player in that first shot and it was Jenko. Hi getting caught on his inside shoulder is his fault and nobody else's.

Look at the space between Manu and Flanagan. How wide do you want him to be?

[Headless Chook]

Look at the space between Manu and Flanagan. How wide do you want him to be?

I want him to mark up on his man. Why is it Flanagan's fault that Manu has drifted in field. Isaac Liu has Brown covered and Flanagan has drifted out to cover Lane. Manu's job was to ensure he marked up on Jenko and it looks to me like he lost sight of him a bit. Jenko has always had that ability to skip to the outside whilst catching the pass

[chopstiks]

Hoping to bump into Teddy today so I can direct him to our forum so he can get the tackling advice he obviously needs.

We all wanna know what you said (or did) to Keary at Coles for him to turn out a blinder