El Grap touched on this earlier. It is increasingly noticeable that the 1st 11, whoever they may be, rarely one touch. Ricki has been in the press talking up the Nix's "ball speed" and "pace of play". Granted they had a lot of possession against a poor Heart performance, but I still see the Nix as the slowest passing side in the A-League. It takes us an age to transition from defense to offence (unless one of the youngsters ae involved and then it tends to pick up the pace), and we seem to not be able to mount an attack without it coming from the flanks.
I agree. I cannot understand why more passes cant be hit first time, when we play on such good surfaces most the time. OK, Suncorp was not a good surface, but if we want to open up sides then we need a succession of one-touch passes to break them down. Its amazing was three first time passes can achieve