Blue Sombrero wrote:
I couldn't watch the last third of the game. It was obvious that the coach's box was incapable of thinking through the situation even before then.
I commented at half time about the goals over the back and Kreuzer getting murdered at the stoppages and for those who think hitouts to advantage isn't a real stat, i invite you to look at the scoreline. Jones has a leap that can at least stop someone like Gawn giving his mids an armchair ride. I would have tried that.
I would also have tried putting someone behind the last Melbourne player in defence. I guessed at half time that we had had something like ten goals from players running back to take a mark or to run into an open goal. Just a guess but the first three goals of the third quarter were all in that categroy.
I am all for the rebuild and yes, we are going to lose a lot more games than we win over the next year or more BUT the coaching panel can't just sit dumbfounded in the box and make no changes to the lineup when it is obvious something needs to be done on the field. Shouting at the players won't fix a structural problem. Ever.
I have harped on about Kreuzer forever. He is NOT a tap ruckman. Phillips is a better tap ruckman than Kreuzer. It doesn't matter in some games that Kreuzer takes marks and kicks more behinds than Phillips. Sometimes, it is important to put in a ruckman who can jump and get a hand on the footy against a different type of ruck. It's no different to picking a second spinner to pay on the SCG. Put Kreuzer as a CHF/mid That's his strength, the follow up stuff in close. He's a whizz at that.
For me that whole non-reaction in the coach's box was the biggest issue in the list of 'cons'.
On the pro side, it looked as though SPS was going to get it a bit more and it was another game under the belt of the kids.
Also, Lamb is in our best 22. Cripps is a genuine star of the game and will fetch seven figures at a club like Sydney or Geelong where the salary cap seems to have no ceiling. He must genuinely wonder where he will be in a few years at this rate and if his mates from WA aren't already in his ear pointing at the WCE finals onslaught to come....
Geelong will come out on fire next week after losing to the drug cheats. If we aren't going to lose by 100 down there, we need all our available good players and a winning mindset. We also need the MC to look at the defensive setup. It's far too high and leaves us vulnerable to easy goals when the ball is turned over. I can see it. Most of the people on here can see it and many have commented on it but can Bolts see it or will he just keep flogging the same dead horse?
An acquaintance of mine once threw a full beer stubby at his TV while watching his Bombers getting beaten by Carlton in the 1990's. Smashed the screen and he didn't get to see the rest of the game. For the first time I felt like doing the same on Sunday.
Agree with you Blue Sombrero that it would have been a good tactic to send a player deep in defence behind the Melbourne forwards. It also might have helped if Jones had learned, after the first two or three times that Melbourne scored a goal from a kick over Jones, that it might not be the best strategy to play 20 metres in front of his opponent.
I cannot understand why our players persist in kicking across the ground often to a contest instead of kicking to a contest 50 metres closer to our goals. On one occasion yesterday a player kicked across the ground in Melb forward line to a contest between one Carlton player and three Melbourne players - the result was not too good. Every side we have played this year have scored goals from this type of mistake. It seems that a major element in our game plan is to avoid kicking to a contest down the line, but OK to do it going backwards or sideways.
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