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Time to bring back attack, say top coaches
Adam Gardini
Premiership winning coaches Wayne Bennett and Tim Sheens yesterday united to raise concerns over the current interpretation of the play-the-ball and its impact on attack.
Speaking on the eve of tonight's clash between their respective sides at Suncorp Stadium, the experienced coaches both expressed their dissatisfaction with different aspects of the policing of the play-the-ball.
Raising the issue after the Broncos finalised preparations with a morning training session at Red Hill yesterday, Bennett said free-flowing attack in the NRL was being stifled through the ability of teams to slow down the speed of the play-the-ball.
He said the situation had become worse since the game's lawmakers introduced different interpretations of the 'dominant' and 'surrender' tackle laws following the Sheens' coached Wests Tigers premiership in 2005.
That season grand finalists the Tigers and North Queensland Cowboys revolutionised league with an up-tempo style of attack in which lateral ball movement was a major feature.
"The more creative you get, the more the opposition want to stop that creativity," said Bennett. "We went to a new dimension on Friday night.
"I saw players (tacklers) looking over their shoulders at the referee to see what he was calling and what he was doing before he even started to move off the player. I thought that was a new dimension we're getting -- that's how slow it's all getting. Everybody's game is stifled at the moment to a fair extent by what's happening in the play-the-ball area.
"I don't want to blame them (the referees), it's their interpretation of it all, the league's tolerance of it is the frustrating thing."
Sheens agreed the game had slowed noticeably since the Tigers premiership in 2005.
He said while he was not overly concerned about the slowing of the play-the-ball, he was worried about inconsistencies with players putting their hands all over the ball carrier around the ruck.
"Because of the speed of the play-the-ball of the Cowboys and Wests Tigers in 2005 there's been a lot more emphasis on keeping the game slower," he said.
"You're always trying to create something in your team and if a rule changes you try and work around it.
"But what I'm concerned about more is the amount of hands that are allowed on the player when he's getting up.
"I've seen guys, they won't flop but they'll come in and put their hands on the man, or they'll stand up and they'll continue to put their hands on him.
"Even though they're not laying on the ball, they're not allowing him to play it. There's been a lot of instances when guys have dropped the ball."
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Broncos count on Origin stars
Steve Ricketts
The Broncos are counting on the relaxed mindset of their seven Queensland stars to help build some momentum into their stop-start premiership defence.
Brisbane is yet to record consecutive victories this season, a trend the club is desperate to break against the Wests Tigers at Suncorp Stadium tonight.
The Broncos' last-start 25-18 triumph against the Bulldogs has given cause for optimism against the Tigers who are coming off a 16-14 home loss to Gold Coast.
With the Origin pressure valve released after Queensland closed out the series in Game II, the sellout third match shapes as a celebration of Queensland's return to Origin dominance.
Broncos coach Wayne Bennett is not concerned his players will get ahead of themselves, despite entering camp for the third game on Wednesday, and backed representative stars Darren Lockyer, Petero Civoniceva, Shaun Berrigan, Tonie Carroll, Justin Hodges, Brent Tate and Karmichael Hunt to have their minds totally on tonight's game.
''I think that's the last thing on their minds now," Bennett said yesterday. "All the pressure is off them and they can turn up for that third Origin and really enjoy all that.
"They're not sitting here today thinking 'God. We've got to go to Origin III and it's going to be a really tough game'. It's tough anyway but they're not thinking we've got to win this game. I think that will help us. I hope it will help us because their focus can be totally with us. The job's done at Origin level now."
Bennett admitted to being a fan of the Tigers' style of football and tipped an open affair in what will be the Broncos' first Monday night home clash of the year.
"The Tigers opened up the game two years ago and played some wonderful football and they've tried to maintain that," he said. "I like the way they play."
Bennett maintained his opposition to spoiling tactics in the rucks and claimed things had crossed into another dimension with players looking around to see what the referee was going to do as they lay all over opponents on the ground.
"The more creative you get the more the opposition wants to stop that creativity," he said. "We went to a new dimension on Friday. I saw players looking over their shoulders at the referee to see what he was calling before they even started to move off the player so that's how slow it's all getting."
Bennett said Wests Tigers hooker Robbie Farah was one of the most marked players in the NRL and he admitted Brisbane would do its best to slow him down within the rules.
"Everyone knows you've got to lay on him as much as you can and do what you can to prevent him getting out there and playing that wonderful football he can play," Bennett said.
The Broncos have confirmed Nick Kenny will replace the injured Greg Eastwood on the bench, while Tigers skipper Todd Payten passed a fitness test yesterday.
The New Zealand Warriors have told Queenslanders Tony Martin and George Gatis, and former Sydney Roosters winger Todd Byrne, that they will not be offered new deals for 2008.
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Time Management
An Extract from RLCM Book 25 [published 2003]
With Chris Anderson written by Ashley Bradnam
Country crooner Kenny Rogers knows the keys to successful gambling. Inadvertently, he may also have stumbled on the keys to successful time management for rugby league coaching.
"You've gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run".
Knowing what to do and when to do it frequently divides the master from the mob - in any field.
Rugby League is no different. A good coach knows the game; a great coach knows how and when to teach it. It's one of the latest additions to the league world's 'buzz words' vocabulary.
They call it 'time management'. It's the art of understanding the how and the when. And just like punting, every coach has a different formula for success.
NRL coaching is a full time job, but that's not to say time is of ample abundance. In RLCM Book 25, we took a look at the weekly routine of the Brisbane Broncos, from a player's perspective; covering rehab after the weekend, to preparing for the coming match.
In this edition, we concentrate on the weekly roster of the coach and his staff, and take a crack at unearthing a productive formula for success.
First tip? Well, according to Chris Anderson it's imperative to know when Time Management to give your players, and yourself, a break. Or as Kenny might sing: "Know when to walk away".
"This isn't like a normal job, you never just walk away from the office and leave it behind", says Anderson.
" It's pretty full on and I think it's important to give myself and the boys a day a week to get away, or try to at least. You can't be just all football. On my day off though, I generally go and play golf with the players and normally find myself working on them while doing so. You don't start at nine and finish at four in this job, you're always thinking about it, but I enjoy that. Down time is important though, as is preparation".
Training preparation entails more than ensuring the balls are pumped up and the water bottles are full.
While the Broncos tend to adhere to a structured weekly roster, not all clubs believe it's the way to go.
Other coaching staff, preparing for the coming training week often incorporates spontaneous creativity sparked by the needs of the
Says Anderson "We don't just sit down on Monday and plan out the whole week because I believe by doing that you can fall into a trap of doing things that may be right for you but not necessarily for the players....................
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