Going against the grain but I think we can win.
And I am not drinking from the glass half full cup here.
I genuinely believe that
Webster can win this game.
Saw enough of his brilliance against the Dolphins to see how that can be applied against the Dogs.
The Second phase ambush was very clever - I said
Webster could pull the trigger in the lead up, few probably took that seriously (It came to me on game day that we wouldn't get out of our thirty without Props and that
Webster would know this, his whole
Webster ball starts with leg speed through Prop forwards).
Against the Dogs
Webster knows that we have to have a conventional boring
Webster ball platform. It is what the Dogs do not like - in the same fashion the Phins do not like second phase and ball movement.
But here is where
Webster has a conundrum, with all our experience missing, the Dogs are gonna win a marathon tennis rally in the end.
So he has the options of either bringing in the offload again (Risky because that is what the Penrith model likes, you take the risks they cash in - and actually the Riff didn't invent it, Bellamy did).
So in essence,
Webster will play our ball retention game, and when we cannot get out of our end he will use ball movement to run the ball for yardage on our wing three quarter line.
And after half time if we are in a tight contest he will persist with the safety ball. If we trail the second phase will be used, or if we lack for meters, this is how second phase is meant to be used in a Warriors context, not willy nilly from the kick off.
With
Webster, if you are gonna use offloads there has to be a purpose, exactly how it should be.
And for all you critics and cynics, in case you missed it this weekend,
Webster is well capable of starting a game with one plan and adapting it to the situation in that same game.
A lot of shit that gets posted about him is just rubbish.