club29 wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
ThePsychologist wrote:
Hammertime22 wrote:
Play Waite down back. Hendo up forward.
Graham deserves a full game!
Agree.
The option may be
Jamison, Waite, McInnes, Bootsma in defence and Henderson, Casboult & Walker up forward?
Agree...and of that lot of talls MM can easily mix it up....Menzel is similar height to Walker and is a good mark and lead up player with goal kicking skills.
Lets get Richmond on the back foot. Looks like in this game we will have good marking targets
It all boils down to what we dish out in the midfield...without Kreuzer Judd and Carrazzo.
Come on mids fire up
So we get it in our 50 and press up. So they throw 80% of there team in their back half absorbing what our pressure (which is not much pressure). They gain possession and the slingshot is on (they like to play like this). They break our press and burst forward. Our last line of Waite, Jamo, McInness and Bootsma are left bolting back, tracking their runs and trying to remain goal side. Somehow I don't think that is going to work. We will be stuffed. A disaster and not the way the modern game is played.
We might stop one or two goals via spoils in attacks different to the one described above but we will pay big time not being able to keep up when they break and spread.
We will get overrun today with this lineup. Not enough true run in the team. Our best hope is that the tigers have ramped up their training and have an eye to the finals and we catch them off guard. Upsets against top 6 teams at this time of the year are not rare.
I don't think we need the extra tall but we have to play one because henda or waite cant play ruck.
So for starters I would use Jamo, Bootsma and Mcinnes as defenders and surround them by mobile running players. Touhy Walker Simpson or Gibbs.
Play Henda, Waite and Casboult up forward.
Have we got extra talls? I don't class McInnes, Bootsma as key talls. They are mobile players and should be developed that way.
Jamison on Reiwoldt, Waite on Vickery & McInnes on McGuane. IMO that matches up fairly well. Really like to see Bootsma as a running HB/Winger.
The key is the mids, Curnow on Delidio and back Gibbs, Murphy, Tuohy, McLean, Bell, Graham, Robinson to win enough ball.
What I hope happens is the small forwards saw what Whitecross, Rioli, Puopolo, Bruest did last night. Their tackling and pressure was fantastic. It creates goals, lifts the intensity of the side and enables more rest for mids if ball is held inside 50. It's vital and we haven't done it all year.
1 extra tall for us but it would be good if we could find a way to get that to work. Not sure it will with this 22 though.
I'd prefer to see Bootsma as a full back one day. 3rd tall defender for now. He is a great spoiler. Wouldn't have the muscle or strength for Cloke or someone like that but I would love to see him playing like Gibson at the Hawks in a year or two. Thought Bootsma was great on Jones last week.
For now having Bootsma and Mcinnes in the side with Jamo, Waite, Henda, Cas and Warnoch to me leaves us a little lumber. That is why I think we will get run over in bursts each quarter and then eventually at the end............unless the tiges are training up a storm for the coming finals series. We might get a look in then.
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