bondiblue wrote:
Tiggers looked good last night against an immature, undeveloped, youthful side: 3rd youngest in the comp.
The obvious imo was the Tiggers played with flair and supreme confidence: daring.
* Running ahead of the ball believing their team mate would win contest and hand it over.
* Leaving their opponents to outnumber at contests often seeing 3 or 4 Tigger players against 1 or 2 Kangas.
Tiggers showed clean hands, a spring in their step and a team with bigger bodies than their opponents. The Tiggers are now a bonafide mature team with pressure on spots and a list with a clean bill of health (which they enjoyed throughtout 2017)...and the karma train tells me it is their turn to experience injury, as its only a matter of time.
I think if we can stem the flow by nullifying contests, there should be a lot of Carlton players loose to go through when we win the loose ball or force the turnover, of which they had 68 last night. If we can capitalise on those turnovers...and Im sure we will create them.
Do Tiggers have a Plan B? Well against the Saints in 2017 they were over run and beaten up at the contest. Admittedly the Tiggers turned that around after that game, but the point is, the Tiggers best set plans can be messed up.
Lets see what style of play we bring to the Hawks game. I'm hoping we continue our brilliant defensive game from 2017, which all teams struggle with, and continue with the offensive layer honed in over the preseason with a sling shot attacking game as witnessed last week against the Saints in the 1st half, and last quarter.
I'm confident Bolton will be priming our players for a win with a winning game plan with a bunch of kids who have another preseason under their belt.
Gosh I hope we spoil their party. I think we can despite the display of brilliance last 2 JLT games. I am not over awed by the Tiggers performance thus far.
I appreciate these thoughts as listening to both Tiggers games it appeared that they were playing so aggressively, backs pushing up and relying on pressure turnovers. Wondered how to counter it - as I suspect it is effective with a confident team but could be exposed with a good counter plan. You get the impression if the tiggers get a run on they are hard to stop.