Completion rates

[RoosterBooster]

Completion rates can be over hyped due to the fact that we won both the 18-19 comps with poor completion rates, BUT when a lot of our star players went down this year we needed to simplify our game plan. Complete high and kick to the corners. You would hear a lot of this chat from Robbo, Teddy etc. during the lead-up to games but we never executed on the weekend. Perhaps we did not have the players due to inefficient skill set, inexperience, constant changes to combinations but it's disappointing that week after week we did not executed the basics of the game. We are not even a high off-loading, risk taking team IMO, we just made so many simple unforced errors. Against the best teams you don't stand a chance and this is why we did not beat a top 4 team (Parramatta aside when they were in their form slump).

[4 the all in brawl]

Completion rates can be over hyped due to the fact that we won both the 18-19 comps with poor completion rates, BUT when a lot of our star players went down this year we needed to simplify our game plan. Complete high and kick to the corners. You would hear a lot of this chat from Robbo, Teddy etc. during the lead-up to games but we never executed on the weekend. Perhaps we did not have the players due to inefficient skill set, inexperience, constant changes to combinations but it's disappointing that week after week we did not executed the basics of the game. We are not even a high off-loading, risk taking team IMO, we just made so many simple unforced errors. Against the best teams you don't stand a chance and this is why we did not beat a top 4 team (Parramatta aside when they were in their form slump).

Well summed up, with a extremely talented team you could afford to have a lower completion rate, especially before the V'landys ball rules came into town, as a great defense could repel most attacking raids.....

Our 2021 team with the constants chopping and changing out of necessity lent to the fact our completion rates were very poor....

Hopefully with all our top 17 available most of next season, our completion rates will be a lot higher. I am pretty sure this does get addressed by the coaching and leadership group but we just didn't have the cattle to complete at 80 percent or above on a consistent basis......

[King Salvo]

Completions rates are even more important nowadays as teams transition out of the overly structured multiple hit ups/out the back with decoys and kick on the last to a more less structured expansive footy game style.

This will need to be worked on in the pre-season as well as defence as I am sure Ryles will have a different approach to Fitzy and of course the kicking, discipline and improving the skills of individual players and the team in general.

A lot of work to be done to have the Chooks up top again one has to say

The link below shows all the stats from 2013 to 2021

https://www.nrl.com/stats/?competition=111&season=2021

[Bruce Pickett]

It's been like this for 20 years at Easts, starting from the Sticky era.

Given our woeful completion rates - why did Teddy and Walker kick on the sceond tackle when we were on attack inside their 20 - happend about 3 times (?) between them?

[King Salvo]

Well summed up, with a extremely talented team you could afford to have a lower completion rate, especially before the V'landys ball rules came into town, as a great defense could repel most attacking raids.....

Our 2021 team with the constants chopping and changing out of necessity lent to the fact our completion rates were very poor....

Hopefully with all our top 17 available most of next season, our completion rates will be a lot higher. I am pretty sure this does get addressed by the coaching and leadership group but we just didn't have the cattle to complete at 80 percent or above on a consistent basis......

85% completion rate when they beat Parra 28-0 so it could be done - I don't buy the rule changes having the dramatic effect as others do - it's not a case of double figure set restarts and a lot of excuses are made for blow out scores being related to set restarts - more the case of poor defence and discipline - If teams can't defend 7 tackle sets then one has to look at whether these teams players are at NRL level

[Bruce Pickett]

85% completion rate when they beat Parra 28-0 so it could be done - I don't buy the rule changes having the dramatic effect as others do - it's not a case of double figure set restarts and a lot of excuses are made for blow out scores being related to set restarts - more the case of poor defence and discipline - If teams can't defend 7 tackle sets then one has to look at whether these teams players are at NRL level

But it's not 7 tackle sets Salvo.

If you get 2 six agains on the 4th tackle (2nd round game against Penrith this year, just after half time), you are defending upto 13 tackles. 4 + 4 + 5.

[Roosterfarian]

Did we actually complete a full six tackles last night.

Like one set?!?

[King Salvo]

But it's not 7 tackle sets Salvo.

If you get 2 six agains on the 4th tackle (2nd round game against Penrith this year, just after half time), you are defending upto 13 tackles. 4 + 4 + 5.

Poor Discipline though although in my view the second set restart conceded in the same run of possession should be a penalty

[Bruce Pickett]

Poor Discipline though although in my view the second set restart conceded in the same run of possession should be a penalty

That might be an idea. BTW, in that Panther set, they scored a try just after oranges, and from memory we were only 6 or 8 points down at the time. Floodgates opened after that.

Also, the 6-agains due to poor discipline - can you really say that with objectivity? I see heaps not given when they should be given and vice versa. Total lottery imo, but an absolute beauty of a weapon if you want to 'game manage' with minimum scrutiny after the game. BTW, I'm definitely not a NRL conspiracy theorists - but it's more than obvious the 3 Klowns don't like us. It's not deliberate on their part, it's just them being normal fans and human, and I can live with that. Before that, our D could handle that. But they've now got the perfect weapon to give our opponents a leg up.