SurreyBlue wrote:
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1 question Bondi, do regard Jones as kid who wouldn’t be developed enough to understand the game plan?
I'm sure you're referring to 198cm 27 yo Liam Jones as a kid. I understand the reference to him, my comments and kid.
The other night my kids were watching their favourite show The Bounce. They were highlighting, I think, the coach killers of 2018, and first off the rank was Jones who was manning Lynch from GCS. What was highlighted was Jones playing a long way off his man and in 2 minds. He could've attacked the bloke ahead going for the loose ball or he could have manned up his opponent. He made himself look stupid. Their was no sign of game plan in his head, other than his own games plan between the ears.
i dont think Jones has high footy IQ and a bloke in 2 minds is an indecisive player or schizo imo. After the media went to town on his ridiculous decision
(he admitted was what he was working on this tactic over the preseason) to play off his man and take the game on even more than last year because it seemed to work in 2-17. He shot himself in the foot playing Russian Roulette. In any other team he would have shot himself in the head and sent to the reserves for the rest of the year, as a liability.
With injuries at the time to Rowe Macreadie and Marchbank he was deemed required, and after his first 4 games were highlighted in the media as the worst defender in the comp, he curbed his style of play.
He ain the future, and there's no way his indecisiveness had anything to do with the Game Plan. That was knocked on the head by him!
Do you see his actions to play loose as Bolton's game plan? He wasn't zoning off. He was lost.
Jones doesn't make up his own game plan bondi.
It's Boltons zone defense and new attacking game plan. It makes all the defenders look silly and scoring against us simple.
Don't blame individual players when the the game plan doesn't work, look at the coach's plan and it's success under real game situation. All the practice and planning in the world cannot make a plan successful until in operation. This defensive zone is a detriment to our progress and Bolton should acknowledge it and move forward. I have said it before but maybe the new rules a bit of a refresh hopefully Bolton swallows his pride and adjusts accordingly.