billc3 wrote:
Dodo27 wrote:
There is a bigger Issue with our team that not many on TC has brought up, which is the Fact that this Season and also some parts of last Season, We have become a 12 goal a game Team. We are badly struggling to kick more than 12 goals a game, even when we Win, we are not kicking any score beyond that!!
The Issue is not the Forward line. With players like Waite, Henderson & Gartlett, we should be kicking a lot more goals....
The Real issue is the fact we are getting Smashed in the center bounces and in the middle by a Ratio of 80-20%. That is massive and it explains why we can't compete. Almost 80% of our Goals have to be constructed from the backline and often from a behind kick in. Having players like Cripps and Judd back will change that ratio. We need to change our structure in the middle. No more Murphy or soft players in there. We need to Win the footy and start kicking Fast Goals.
Another thing which complicates our deficiency to kick goals is MM's style of play in which he likes to play Wide and with short kicks until a Forward ends up marking it in the Pocket and with an Impossible task of kicking a Goal. We are not skilled enough to kick goals from tight angles. Going Wide will not help us. We need to go back to playing basic Footy. Kick it Long and play on at all costs. Do not mark, stop and chip chip. This killed us all of this year!!!
FFS DO NOT KICK IT LONG IF they have one or even two loose men behind the ball....do not kick to a contest if it is two on one...that's not a contest. Chip chip chip when this is occurring ...I have no problem with that ...sorry Dodo.
We were smashed last week kicking it to seriously outnumbered contests...then your stuffed as they have it in space...there are times you must chip it around...you MUST ALWAYS ATTEMPT to keep possession. You should NEVER kick to a contest when an uncontested possession is an option....and a a few other things which need to be drilled into the players. As soon as you see possession footy played against you...MAN UP
Coming out of the middle and kicking long to a one on one in the forward 50 I have no problem with....
If possession footy and man on man only gets scores of 80 points or less ...then so be it.
Bill, our team is not capable of possession footy. We do not have the skills to play that style...How many times did we Turn it over by just chipping it short? We can't even kick it 20m out in front....We have the worst Kicking team in the comp.
Opposition teams in the last 3 rounds all have played spare Men behind the ball and they killed us but the question is, where the heck was their opponents? and what were our Spare men doing? they were no where to be found. Its Dump Football. We need to Man up every spare defender and kick it long 50-50 and Create a contest!!
The other option which we have not been doing is play on at all costs and keep the game running. Possession football is suited for teams like hawthorn and Freo... not us
we havent been drafting players that can mark or kick under pressure to play the possession game
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