Offence and defence are entwined these days. One feeds off the other. As we often fail to protect the defensive side of stoppages via a sweeper or two who doesn't get sucked into the honey pot, or at contests (especially aerial) with our small forwards/mids being front & square, we get burned the other way. It's been an issue for the past 3 years yet Dimma and especially our line coaches fail to see it. Add poor basic skill execution to the mix and no wonder we just continually allow the opposition open space on their forward side and they score easy goals. Aside from the Collingwood game where the Pies dominated general play for most it, these easy goals have often come from our forward half and against the run of play and it's cost us up to 2.5 wins. Dimma has mentioned in the past two weeks the ridiculous number of forward half goals we are conceding. He, the coaching staff as well as our leaders/senior players need to start by focusing the team back to doing the basics and doing them right and consistently. The rest will then take care of itself.
