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Chicken and the Egg - Defending possession chains
Just a question after the Essendon game.
Was our 'high' defending - which was causing the Bombers to switch the ball back and forth across half back what caused them to just 'take what we gave them', uncontested mark themselves to death and allow our defenders to get 'set' behind the ball behind our success last night?
OR.
Were Essendon just stuffing around with it for reasons even their coach didn't seem to understand and THAT allowed our defenders to get set behind the ball/have success?
I don't think it can be both. But I really couldn't tell from tv.
What should I tell her? She's going to ask.
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"It's over. It's all over."
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Re: Chicken and the Egg - Defending possession chains
I was wondering why we went to the wing so often and not through the centre
Thanks for the explanation , as I could not tell watching from tv
Last edited by macca; 23-07-2023 at 12:28 AM.
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Re: Chicken and the Egg - Defending possession chains
I suspect they wanted to try and get the ball to the fat side of the ground and run it into the F50 as Wright & Langford are good one on one players.
Our wings (as far as I could tell on TV) did a lot of 'unrewarded' running last night to stop that. Once we slowed their movement the game was going to be played on our terms as we are a much better stoppage team than Essendon, and have been for 15 years.
Seems a stupid strategy as their best 'run and gun' D50 player (Hind) was the sub.
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Re: Chicken and the Egg - Defending possession chains
Originally Posted by
mjp
Just a question after the Essendon game.
Was our 'high' defending - which was causing the Bombers to switch the ball back and forth across half back what caused them to just 'take what we gave them', uncontested mark themselves to death and allow our defenders to get 'set' behind the ball behind our success last night?
OR.
Were Essendon just stuffing around with it for reasons even their coach didn't seem to understand and THAT allowed our defenders to get set behind the ball/have success?
I don't think it can be both. But I really couldn't tell from tv.
I mentioned this in the other thread, Essendon found it difficult to break through our zones - so yes first reason
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