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Gold Coast Titans 38 defeated Parramatta 12
   
Michael Hagan John Cartwright Dr Michael Johnson Nathan Cayless
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The Titans Take Little Steps to Achieve Their Goals
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Ask yourself the question, "Were the Titans that good or were Parramatta poor?"
The Parramatta doctor Dr Michael Johnson, said after the game that a virus had affected several players, so maybe that is the answer. They were poor because of their virus.
Parramatta coach, Michael Hagan , said, "The Titans played very well."
Parramatta captain, Nathan Cayless, said, "You cannot take anything away from the Titans. Even if we had been 100%, they would have been tough to beat."
The Gold Coast team has showed so far that they can play football. Granted, it is still early days for them, but they do have something.
They can defend, they can attack, they can follow a game plan, they do not panic and they can make it hard for any team to gain good field position.
They showed against Parramatta at Carrara Stadium on Sunday before a crowd of 18,021, that if you want to play for positive field position when you are against the Titans, you are going to have to earn it with some smart plays to get you where you want to go.
The Titans demonstrated that if a team wants to play the old style of gaining 10m at a time coming out of its end with a one pass 'go forward' play, they will struggle to get to the 40m for their kick.
Parramatta, for the majority of the game, could not gain positive ground in the Titans' half of the field to launch an attack unless it was off the back of a penalty to get them down there.
They were repeatedly held to a fifth play within their own half and only on a few occasions reached the 50m for their last play.
This was a part of the game plan that was devised by Cartwright and his players performed it to perfection.
However, Titans' half back Prince's kicking game was off the mark for most of the game. He repeatedly kicked the ball to Parramatta fullback, Birt, who caught the ball effortlessly to allow Parramatta's first play to commence on their 20m - 30m, centre field.
But this only shows how effective the Titans' defence was.
Normally, an attacking team that began plays one or two from that position would create problems on plays four or five. Parramatta were unable to do this.
So, to revert to the question at the beginning of this article, even though some of the Parramatta Eels were affected with a virus, my answer is that the Titans were good.
John Cartwright said, "We have worked really hard on keeping them out of our kick zone. That was a goal and we achieved it."
The Titans take little steps to achieve many of their goals. Sometimes their big plays come off, but it is the little things that they are doing correctly that are winning them games.
Titans 38 defeated Parramatta 12.
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By Glenn Jackson, Andrew Webster and Brad Walter
Warriors coach Ivan Cleary has called for an NFL-style video referee challenge system to fix the controversial obstruction rule.
The development came as referees' boss Robert Finch agreed to a telephone hook-up with the 16 NRL coaches - to be held either tomorrow or Wednesday - and admitted there was a possibility the rule would be changed mid-season.
The rule has continued to cause angst among the coaching ranks, with more penalties having been awarded for obstruction in just seven rounds this year than all of last season. Melbourne's Craig Bellamy, Souths' Jason Taylor and Wests Tigers' boss Tim Sheens called for changes even though Finch claimed to have support from others.
Finch emailed all 16 coaches last week to gauge their opinions of the latest rule, but he has received only a handful of replies. But after discussing the controversy with NRL chief operating officer Graham Annesley yesterday, they admitted it was time to discuss the matter with the coaches as a group.
Finch does have some public support, notably from North Queensland coach Graham Murray, who has spoken out in support of the rule, although he admitted much of what was discussed at last year's meeting - where the changes were instigated - had been lost in translation by officials.
Sheens also said the game had "gone off the track somewhere" following the discussions after last season.
But Finch said of the "small sample" of replies he received from the coaches, "the majority . are comfortable with the current position".
Asked if the law could still be changed, he said: "History shows things have been changed before - but it would need to be a very strong argument, and the majority would have to be in agreement.
"And we will need to look at all the ramifications - obviously every change has an impact in other areas of the game. There's a bit to consider, so we'll just see what happens with this hook-up this week.
"One of the things that has created more discussion of this issue is there are more and more decoy runners being used - every play they put up has got decoy runners. What are we going to do about that? That's one of the things I want to talk to the coaches about."
Cleary's Warriors side was denied two tries in the space of eight minutes in the first half against South Sydney yesterday and had to score a last-minute try to ensure it wasn't robbed of a certain victory.
In the 14th minute, video referee Chris Ward denied five-eighth Michael Witt a try after lock Micheal Luck had clipped his Souths opposite, Dean Widders, while running a decoy. But the most contentious ruling came eight minutes later when hooker Nathan Fien was also denied a four-pointer.
Coming out of dummy half and right on the Souths try-line, Fien threw a pass behind prop Sam Rapira to captain Steve Price, then wrapped around Price to score. Souths players said after the match they were as surprised as anyone that the try was not awarded.
Finch admitted he felt the try should have been awarded.
While Fien said "everyone is confused", Cleary blamed slow-motion replays for the interpretation of the rule as much as the rule itself, and called for a system similar to the NFL, where coaches are given a set number of challenges to rulings each game.
"I'm in favour of getting rid of the video ref or making it like the NFL where you get a couple of shots at it," he said.
"I think that would help. The calls are never made in the course of the game, it's only when it goes to the video.
"Every time a try is scored now, we're trying to find out ways to not give a try, which is the opposite of benefit of the doubt. Maybe I'm just being reactive. At least if you only got a few goes at it, you're only going to go if you think from the naked eye that there's a problem."
Taylor said: "My thoughts are that it [the old rule] mightn't have been perfect before, but it's better than this. If someone in the line is impeded, it should be a penalty. Other than that, play on.
"We tried to change it for the right reasons, but it's not working. We should bite the bullet and go back."
Warriors fullback Wade McKinnon said the current rule benefited players who made poor defensive reads.
"People make bad reads and it becomes a penalty for their team," McKinnon said. "It's a move that's been around for years, now with this new rule coming in it is making a lot of players frustrated." SMH
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A Starting Point For Coaches.
With Dennis Betts written by Robert Rachow
ON the field, former Great Britain prop Dennis Betts was hardly one for taking a step back. Yet when it came time to call curtains on his playing career, he had to do just that as he faced life after football.
In the back of his mind he'd always wanted to try his hand at coaching, but starting out was easier said than done. Even when presented with an opportunity by Wigan to direct their Under-17s, Betts still had to figure out where to begin.
RLCM was in the audience at JJB Stadium recently when Betts spoke with other aspiring coaches.
Dennis Betts made the transition from being the barkee to the barker. Over the course of his illustrious career he'd taken orders from some of the best known names in Rugby League circles, the likes of which included John Monie and Graham Lowe.
During his 16-years as a professional, Betts also played alongside a handful of players who progressed to coaching at various levels throughout the game.
Being a student of Rugby League, the uncompromising forward had ferreted away all sorts of notes on game plans and set plays.
He'd stored coaching manuals passed down by his mentors or acquired at different development camps. But Betts looked over them when his career was finished and essentially, couldn't see the forest for the trees.
"Reading back over these things I'd scribbled down, I still couldn't understand what coaching was all about," Betts says.
"I had the attitude and aptitude to play well and I'd taken part in all sorts of camps for up-and-coming players.
" However, the realisation came that I'd never looked after 24 players by my own before.
"There were all these grand plans about defensive patterns and kicking strategies, but 17-year-old kids weren't going to understand what I was talking about half the time. They still needed to learn a lot of the basics.
"All the things I thought were easy as a player suddenly became very difficult to teach. I was shocked by the transition, to be honest."
Prior to retirement, Betts had come across the book Seven Strategies of Highly Effective People, which he used to streamline his life.
When coaching came along, he revisited the book and had his eye caught by one strategy in particular - Put First Things First.
Deciding that was what needed to be done, he prioritised the actions needed to reach his goals.
Eventually Betts arrived at the conclusion that he would need to start way back at core skill level. This he says, seemed tedious at first, yet it also made it clearer to him just how neglected these skills had been.
"I worked for three to four months on something as basic as how to hold the ball and what to do with it,"
Betts says. "It's something when you're playing that you don't think about much. I know most of the guys from my generation were more worried about getting the ball rather than how we were holding it.
"Most of us never learnt how to hold the ball properly, full-stop. All the grand plans I initially had with coaching kids went out the window and I focused on these basics."
Problems arose not only with core skills that Betts had failed to learn himself as a player but another big issue was being re- educated on tactics and techniques, which had changed since his days as a junior footballer.
Betts found there were elements of both attack and defence where his concepts had become obsolete. It took realism and a swallowing of pride for him to admit to that and do something about it.
"Basically, I had to re-learn how to tackle all over again," he says. "Although the objective and mindset were still roughly the same, technique had changed a..... An extract from RLCM eBook 34 published 2004.
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