TruBlueBrad wrote:
Blue Vain wrote:
Blues Clues wrote:
Curnow 12 touches v Bell 18 and a goal. FFS, it's Judd for Curnow isn't it? Ellard for Mitch if he's suspended, hope there's nothing in it though as Mitch can dish out some useful pain this week.
Really, really want to see Bell v these pricks after what happened Rd 4.
Curnows job on Black was instrumental in us getting across the line. He shouldnt be going anywhere.
Its another tag though BV
Seriously, some of you guys need need to get over your obsession with how many 'tags' we employ.
Our midfield has been terrible in terms of accountability at times and you have to recognise there are different stages of making our players responsible for their opponant.
There aren't many pure tags in footy anymore. Most of the time its be responsible for your opponant, but when we have the ball work off him and provide an option. This is more a 'run with' role. Other players benefit from having someone take them to the ball, others raise their game with the responsibility they're given to run with an opposition star.
To describe Carrazzo's role as a tagger shows a pretty limited understanding of how footy works.
There are some serious flaws in how we play football at times. Some of them relate to coaching strategy, but some of the dumb decision making our players are capable of is embarassing. Having two players run to the man with ball, letting a free player run ahead, having 6-7 within a couple of metres of the contest while their players are outside that bubble, lack of intensity when we tackle in close allowing them to break free.
A few other things that stood out
- how flat we were early
- rotating KP players off the bench, why does Simon White need a break half way through the first quarter?
- our insistence on going sideways or backwards to pick out an easy option in our forward half, giving them time to set up a zone, makes it very difficult for us to find an option and score.
The whole tag thing is something Synbad brought up once. Then again .......and again......and again. After a couple of losses some looking for excuses, rather than saying the players were crap at their roles, went for the first thing on their minds (because it had been repeated 100 times by one guy) and began repeating the "too many taggers line".
Its the new "we're average" one liner.
I thought we were scrappy. I noted we score more from forcing turnovers further down the ground rather than compressing inside our 50. Too much congestion inside 50 when we do that. Ease up on the uber press and we defend better and attack much better.
Like what i saw of ROK. Enjoyed GIbbs' game but thought he made a lot of mistakes. Not his best game for the year even though his numbers were up. Nice goal.
Betts and Garlett played well as did big K. Hope I dont jinx him but it is good to see him get an entire season under his belt finally.
Murphy just gets belted every week. Teams trying their best to bust his shoulder. Better watch them bombers next week.
Also noted that Murphy has been told or realised himself that he was going way off his line with his set shots. Looked like he tried to correct it. Still missed but i think he needs a better technique going forward.
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