King Kenny wrote:
Blue Vain wrote:
King Kenny wrote:
Malthouse game plan has won the Premiership across 3 decades each of which has had different trends in football emerge. We have a successful game plan, just no players to make the most of it.
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John Kennedy senior won 3 flags within 15 years. Why hasn't someone snapped him up?
Too bad Norm Smith isn't around still. He won 6 flags. That makes him twice as good as Mick.
Obviously if someone had successful gameplans previously, it means they do now!
So what you're telling me is they all won numerous flags with a consistent game plan that didn't vary much. Is that right?
What I'm telling you is it's ridiculous to suggest that because a game plan was successful previously, it has to be today.
A quick look at the AFL ladder should give an indication as the team who is living in the past is 0-3 with a percentage of 64 while the successful teams of 2014 are implementing a gamestyle based upon retaining possession.
Its not an opinion. Its a statistical reality.
Forget the personalities. This isnt about Mick or Ratts or anyone else. Its about how the game is being played. How is there any value in winning a contested possession and putting it back into a contested situation?
With the opposition players also spending 40 hours a week at the clubs preparing set ups, doing opposition analysis, structural and tactical drills, zone specific training, meetings etc, how do you expect our players to transition the ball from defence to attack when the opposition know exactly where we're going to kick the ball?
Everyone knows Geelong and Essendon** will bring the ball from defence with fast hands, playing in at every opportunity or Hawthorn will slice you up with short kicks but what part of the ground do they use? They take the corridor, the wings, anywhere there's space. They dont go back behind the mark giving the opposition an opportunity to set their zone. It's a lot harder to set a zone against players when you're protecting the width of the ground and the ball movement is quick.
Their speed of ball movement gives them a numbers advantage and they use it beautifully,
Comparatively, how easy are we to play against? We let the opposition know our patterns of play so they can condense their press and what's more, the kick-mark/contest tempo gives them ample opportunity to set their press beautifully.
How would you like to be a Carlton backman? They're told to press up the ground when the ball comes out of defence and guard space. Only to see the ball turned over by virtue of our intentionally contested game style and meanwhile their lazy opponents are out the back for easy goals.
Even if our players were worldbeaters and won 60% of the contested footy, we're still giving the opposition 40% of the possession after we've had 100%.
And you're telling me thats a good game plan?
Most teams, especially the good ones are trying to force their opposition to go wide, we do so as a matter of choice. We are helping our oppositions defensive strategy before the game even starts.
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