bondiblue wrote:
Whilst I may have agreed with you on most things in the match day summary I am totally in disagreement with you summation of Henderson and the empirical evidence you choose to use you blame squarely on Hendo.
Jimmae look at the statistical truths and see if you can summon a portion of the blame on the midfield. That's where I see as the major problem. Get the ball tick. Pass to one of our own tick. Get caught stopped and pressured and the ball didn't go to the forward line, nor to outside runners coz there weren't any and defensively another 2 out of 10.
The ball didn't get to our forward line for long long periods. When our mids were presenting in the forward line (at times adding to the congestion) their disposal was just rubbish.
Hendo was guilty of missing some 50/50 marking contests that he would normally be elite when in red hot form but they were 50/50 high lobs in the air. Those sort of passes are for the likes of Casboult types. The mids served up nothing or crap...not Hendos doing.
Within the context of that one quote I can understand why you think I'm solely blaming Henderson, but that's not the case I assure you. I just want him to help set us up from defence and have a forward that can convert more targets into opportunities.
The midfield needs work but that's at the clearances because we've had plenty of runners come and go, while we win the clearances and rarely create space for them, creating pressure on the incoming ball. That, combined with the early leads to the ball carrier, create the shoddy entries.
When you have multiple players delivering the football poorly it's likely a systemic issue; when you have one bloke leading early, it's one bloke.
bondiblue wrote:
jimmae wrote:
Nothing about today's practice match suggests we should play Whiley or Casboult.
More to be said about Fields, Buckley, Byrne, Graham and Viojo-Rainbow. Anyone accumulating possessions at stoppages when we have no spread is part of the reason we have no spread.
Accumulating possessions winning the ball is one role, then then you want him to pass the ball to his spreading self.
Sorry jimmae but how do you reach that conclusion?
It's reflective of what he and the clearance group are doing with the ball and the space they're creating for the runners. If it's anything like at senior level, it's a bunch of 1v1 midfield battles instead of a coordinated group. You'll notice the lead possession winners are the contested ball guys and the flankers.
Anyone with speed that was put into a midfield role wouldn't get the ball because their direct opponent had free reign to scrag, subject to the umpire noticing.
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