bondiblue wrote:
Posted this in Vossy thrread when I was thinking about our game v Port.
One thing obvious to me was Pitto played longer and broke even with Sweet. I'd say he beat Sweet with 10 v 7 HO to advantage. Harry has able to keep the pressure on in the ruck, but we didnt have anyone in the forward line to mark the ball when harry wasn't there. I don't know why we kept on bombing it forward in that 3rd. Is that Fraser's fault? A personnel thing? Players' fatiguing and losing composure? Forward not providing leads to kick to? Says to me its a bit of everything.
IMO, the best thing about the win was our dare (to run in 2's and 3's), our close checking of opponents and pressure we were able to exert that, over 4 quarters (maybe because we weren't spent chasing tails because we were minding space instead of players) and most importantly, we did it with 11 players not available (see impact that has on our VFL team), 6 missing from our Best 23. 7 if you count Carroll.
It was a great to win on their dung.
He did, Pitto played 77% game time compared to 68% the week before.
Agree the bombing was a bit of everything, I doubt Fraser like Voss initiated it though.
The lack of reward for effort in the 3rd was us slipping back into our groove, we were just lucky they were not a top of the ladder team that could punish us.
For me the run has come from Florent hitting his straps over the last 3-4 weeks, Newman getting back to how he plays and the addition of Wilson's speed to help push out of D50. You also have to take into account the injuries of our 2 wings and the need to change the way we play from the HB line to support fill in players like Cerra on the wing and did I see Franky starting on wing a few times?
Another thing to note is that without Weitering and having a more mobile defence that changed the way we moved the ball out of D50 also.
It gave those players the room to run harder and change the angles more.
Weitering is a good one on one defender, but he is slow and the game is changing, including the need for a more mobile defence that can close down these athletic forwards. Dean and HOF are the way forward, they get to the contest, they tackle hard and they are willing to be less predictable coming out of defence.
I swear Mitch McGovern was playing a KP-wing hybrid marking in both goal squares in the third and fourth quarters. was anybody at the ground? Who was he playing on or what was his pattern of play? Haywood was forced to play extremely high as a HF also. But i think Mitch was starting in the back half at CBs in Q3 & Q4. Dean is improving nicely for a first year kid-KPD, playing way above his years and slowly eliminating the less than excellent acts from his game.
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