The_Cranium wrote:
Did anyone else notice the Mick Malthouse like game plan of kicking it down the line. It inevitably resulted in a turn over by either a shit kick that ended up out on the full or in the times we actually managed to get into the forward line the Richmond backs had set up to cover the very limited entry points into F50 and slingshotted into their own attack time and time again. If the best Bolton has is the Collingwood gameplan of 2010 he is in big trouble. I hope it's not the case, but it's hard to hold faith based on last year and the start of this year. Yes we played arguably the best team in the comp, so I only hope that it's onwards and upwards from here
Yes, but that isn't new to 2019, we've been doing it out of necessity to stop floggings for years..
That game plan was developed to create a running maul from one end of the ground to the other on the basis that if you couldn't mark the footy, you made sure it went out and if it did turn over, it was in a less vulnerable position. It was accompanied on those times by manic gang-tackling, the bit we miss out on.
It's at complete odds with the AFL's current aim to open up the game and prevent running mauls from one end of the ground to the other.
When we went inside, the opposition team weren't ready for it because we hardly ever do it. That's why it worked, along with the fact that the AFL has designed the system to make sure it works if teams have the ability to pull it off, which we don't have for four quarters, but we will.
We went one handball too many a few times that cost turnovers in vulnerable areas of the ground.
Someone posted earlier that we don't have enough straight ahead players. If you are running hard and straight for a gap and you get the footy, you are allowed to put the ball under your arm and run ten metres before you even think about bouncing it.
Think Tippungwuti, even that nuisance Higgins who got three last night, including two absolute flukes, which aren't really flukes because he does it every week. Our handballs go around in circles a lot because the receiver is already covered and has to get rid of it, he is stationary or he doesn't want the responsibility to gain metres.
I thought Murphy put on a handball clinic on the night with his long, clearing handballs to space.