The way I am seeing it is that our forward press is based on the premise of leaving your man to place pressure on the ball carrier. This in turn creates a loose man. As a result another player behind that must leave his man to cover that loose man, thus creating another loose man further forward of the play. If this continues on, we end up bleeding goals to the man left behind in the opposition forward line. This is the reason it is important to place a good ball user as a floating man down back.
Last night Jack Watts was that man and kept being drawn forward into the play, thus negating his role.
Considering that we've only been playing the press for the past four weeks, we need to keep enduring and educate the loose man in the best way to play his role. For mine, the loose man should be the one person to keep dropping back when the rest of the players are instructed to move forward. This will give us at least even numbers at the contest and enable us to best draw a mistake from our opponent.
The process is correct, but at the moment, our implementation has been a bit haphazard. The more we play the press, the better we'll get at it.
When you consider that nearly majority of our team were playing for Casey four weeks ago, we are going ok. Match practise makes perfect!