there's was just so much wrong with the setup of this team today. i'm not talking formation
we never played out and we never even went into midfield to come out to the full backs
midfielders only got forward when we were crossing, they never got in front of the strikers from general play or even when we hammered it long which made the long ball ineffective and easier to deal with
our 3 centre backs sat deep. all of them looking to mop up. i cannot recall a defender pressing the general play apart from adams once early on. and i noticed that when adams then galloped forward, tuiloma went and sat in the back five to cover for him while fiji had 1 player up
we defended with many spare players. we generally asked our back 5 to hold 3 players and our front 2 to hold 5 players. the fijian full backs sat deep, so why did we need to do this?
when we got possession there was no one to play through. our plan was simply to win a throw in near half way, then work it to someone to hit long
if this was all deliberate, then i applaud hudson for having a plan. by the time herbert had finished we had no plan. but i do not like this plan, we should not be playing like this and certainly not against fiji
i will add that once thing i had noticed about this team under hudson when he first came in was that they played direct. i quite liked this, for me it was a good balance between playing good footy to feet where possible and getting the ball in to dangerous areas when possible.