Belisarius wrote:
Fair enough Ryan
I think we will have to agree to disagree as to whether going wide is something we always do. Especially considering the team who do it the most are Collingwood and they only do it as a percentage somewhere in the high thirties.
I totally agree with you that we needed to take the game on a bit more. Such as playing on more and using the running bounce more often. Offensively going wide is much more effective if your players are running closer to the forward fifty, thus still being able to access the fatside with your entries. Having players with long accurate kicks doesn't hurt. Not sure we have many of those as yet.
As you did I loved the intensity of our defensive effort
A good win
Yes, great point. Collingwood do do this well. And Syndey won a premiership playing the flanks. But they do have other options. They dont JUST play the flanks.
Look at Essendon*.......... in my opinion, they play the centre of the ground better than anybody else in the leauge. They have the pace to destroy teams by burning it through the centre and have done so many times this year.
BUT................. That's all they have. And you just can't have the one option in footy these days. Hence why The Bombers are fading out now. They are tired and they are spent!
Effective style of play, sure - but if that's all you've got then it's not going to be enough.
A few years ago, Terry Wallace was deamed a master-mind for creating a 'basketball' style game plan to beat the "un-beatable" Adelaide Crows........... but this was all Terry had. And sadly, the Tigers just did not have the skills to play such high possesion 'keepings-off' football. As such, Terry was found out and a few years later, finally, he was gone.
Jade Rawlings, in the short time he has had, has shown that there is indeed a lot more Wallace could have and should have done with the Tiger players he had at his dissposal.
Interesting contrast of syles in the top four. The two teams who like to go wide the most, in St Kilda and Collingwood versus Geelong and the Bulldogs who prefer the corridor. Interestingly I think our attempt to have a few options is why there are so many claims that we don't have a gameplan (a few other issues as well of course
The way Essendon* plays takes a lot of energy, which is why they have had so many soft tissue injuries and is also partly responsible for the fadeout (I think it is also a mental problem). They probably need to use the slow play variant a bit more, but not too much as we sometimes do. It is all about balance
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