toddkurnski wrote:
robertbb wrote:
toddkurnski wrote:
robertbb wrote:
If you switch too quickly and cough it up (which we often do), you get cut up because you're out of position (which we often are).
Not sure I follow you here. A quick switch and error is better to me than the chip chip possession.
All players should be learning the right movements including the forwards. Our players lack of movement to help each other up the field to create options or spread a defence is something that needs to improve. Regardless of who is in the team or the skill level. Do you believe the way players run to create targets and space is good enough or could be improved?
Like anything, repetition of good habits will improve results over extended periods. I am worried we are short changing ourselves and are not developing those habits regardless of who is in the team.
I stopped reading after your first sentence. Really? You want us to switch quick, lose the ball and have the opposition hammer repeat entries into our undermanned D50?
Quick switch lose possession
Chip chip lose possession
One is a good habit the other isn’t.
Practice one and not the other.
One will actually put pressure on the opposition if it works.
The other won’t.
Have a vision of how we should be playing 12 and 24 months from now. Chip chip and no player movement up the field isn’t the habit our players should be learning.
Cough up a few more goals today to learn better habits that will take us further tomorrow.
Yes except we need to practice both, one to attack and one when opposition get a run on and we need to just deny them the ball.
At the moment we don't have the players on the field to play the big switch and with the constant changing of the team every week, it is very risky to ask players to practise this in real game situations.
The big switch requires the team to be all on the same page and understand each other as to when to go and when to kick down the line. Our players just don't have that chemistry at the moment and our players kicking from half back don't have the foot skills to execute even if the switch is on.