blues8182 wrote:
Synbad wrote:
Ratten is a reactive coach.
He is overly defensive.
He tries to neutralise situations not win them.
Hes the dumbest coach going around.
Imagine bringing in Guus and allowing him a month to understand footy.
He would revolutionise football.
such a basic game... and Ratts cant understand it....
Synbad please get off your Ratten bashing for once and have a look at the game for what it was, there was absolutely nothing he could do with the personnel he had available once the ball was bounced.
We went in short in both defence and forward, once we lost Touhey and Walker that compounded the situation, surely you can see that, please enlighten me with the moves that could have been made that could have stopped Petrie and who we could have used as a genuine forward option, can you also tell me how we could cover the loss of Walker and Joseph prior to half time and still be able to keep our run up, please just give me a reasonable and logical analys of what could be done from the box to rescue the situation,just for something different, rather than pushing your dislikes.
'8182, I'm sure Synbad can answer for himself, however see what you think of these couple of ideas as examples.
It was pretty obvious early that Petrie was hot. In fact I would've said that he was a "known danger" before the game. What's the most obvious strategy
to cope with an opposition KP forward who is leading and/or marking well? I'm no AFL coach but I would say you organise a "third man up" or a "chop out". That
seems to be how everyone else copes with a Franklin' or a Cloke or whomever. What you don't do is leave a dominating forward one out. Like we did.
Maybe it's not that simple. IMO though Jamison had no chance of stopping the first three, maybe four goals. Duigan wasn't doing anything at the time. I would've
moved him back as a loose man in defence and told him to help out whoever needed it. He's a smart and courageous footballer and can play that role well.
Here's another example. When Walker went down I would've dusted off my "slow it all down" contingency plan. When we lost AJ as well I would've applied it.
We all know how well we play a fast running game, but you can't do it when your rotations are down and there's no fresh sub for the last quarter. We should
have swapped to an old "Ross Lyon St.Kilda" style game plan. Bored the sh*t out everyone and frustrated Nth who at the time were running everywhere and loving it.
The frustration just might have messed with their heads enough for us to make some progress.
Just two ideas. I would hope that a professional AFL coach would have a lot more up his sleeve.
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