Quote:Outrageous. No excuse for that. Make half of those and we win

 

Make half of those missed tackles (or the equivalent stat) in every game this year and we're 3-1.


That's the frustrating thing about this team right now. It's so close to seeing results, but at every turn something seems to go wrong - some things that are out of the control of the team and the players, and some that are very much in their control. The last couple of years it's been possible to shrug it off to an extent by accepting that they just weren't a very good team - that there wasn't the talent on the roster to get things right.


But this year the talent's there. We can see it in patches. There have been spots where the defence has played at least adequately. There have been long stretches where the offence has shown signs of being what we wanted it to be this year. But it's not coming together consistently. If it does, then we're a much better team than our record shows. Certain people need to start making sure those changes get made if they want to have a chance to keep their jobs...

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