Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

[bulldogtragic]

Call me superstitious, but I'm doing everything the same as the last 3 weeks. So here's my strategy thread.

Do we need to close mark any particular midfielder?

Do we need a second ruckman? If so, who? If Roughy is out, who replaces him?

Do we have a defensive forward role for Cordy this week?

Who gets Buddy?

[westbulldog]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

Just a starting thought, I would watch Tom Papley closely, the kid is becoming every bit as good as his grandfather Max.

[1eyedog]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

Mitchell is their form mid and I would like some work put into him to curb his influence. I'm hoping Rampe has to go to Stringer to keep Rampe accountable.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

I don't think we'll be too focussed on midfied tags or matchups. Sydney's strength is their consistent high quality, with Kennedy, Hanneberry, Parker, Mitchell, Jack, Heeney, McVeigh, McGlynn, Papley and others delivering death by 1,000 cuts as they rack up the possessions. They usually wear opponents down. We stack up okay as our inside depth can compete against them over 4 quarters, and we have better runners. I reckon we'll go in with our plan A rotations, and trust that we can roughly beak even in tight, which will go a long way towards winning.

[MrMahatma]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

Swans have been fast starters. We need to keep it tight for the first 30 mins and then it's on for young and old.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

Start ferocious and continue that for the entire game.

Happy for us to have Buddy away from the F50 but we need to ensure we keep our third man up/zone deep because he's using the ball so well spotting up targets.

Limit their clean ball on the inside and through the first possession out - tough ask against their experienced unit.

Play through anyone but Rampe's man and try to keep him away from the contests in the air.

They were bloody strong Friday night, going to be a belter.

[boydogs]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

We match up well against Sydney with a large group of players sharing minutes in the midfield and mobile forward and defensive lines. If their best players all fire though they will be tough to stop

[Mantis]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

We match up well against Sydney with a large group of players sharing minutes in the midfield and mobile forward and defensive lines. If their best players all fire though they will be tough to stop

Like in rd 15?

Have a look at the stats sheet that day and you will find:

Kennedy - 34
Parker - 34 -10 tackles - 3 goals
Hanneberry - 33
Jack - 26
McVeigh - 23
Mitchell - 23
Buddy - 21 - 10 marks - 5 goals

They threw the kitchen sink at us and we still found a way.

Make no mistake this game will be won by the bottom 6-8, not the top 6-8.

[EasternWest]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

Like in rd 15?

Have a look at the stats sheet that day and you will find:

Kennedy - 34
Parker - 34 -10 tackles - 3 goals
Hanneberry - 33
Jack - 26
McVeigh - 23
Mitchell - 23
Buddy - 21 - 10 marks - 5 goals

They threw the kitchen sink at us and we still found a way.

Make no mistake this game will be won by the bottom 6-8, not the top 6-8.

Remarkable figures, on their patch and we still won.

We'll win this week.

[Mofra]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

The Swans have been much faster starters in the last 1/3rd of the year, and being experienced they will settle faster too.

Michael Tuck (I think it was him) says that the team that normally wins the Grand Final is the one that settles first as they'll start to control the play and eventually get the game on their terms. This game could be a little different as both teams have a strongly contested style of play, although the Swans have Buddy up forward who has to be stopped while our scoring power is from a fleet of small players with our talls really just there to bring the ball to ground.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

We've started well in each of the 3 finals, just failed to capitalize on some opportunities (where have we read/heard that before..)

Trust the group to be switched on from the first bounce, absolutely need to bring the ball to ground if forced into a high ball/contested F50 entry.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

The Swans have been much faster starters in the last 1/3rd of the year, and being experienced they will settle faster too.

Michael Tuck (I think it was him) says that the team that normally wins the Grand Final is the one that settles first as they'll start to control the play and eventually get the game on their terms. This game could be a little different as both teams have a strongly contested style of play, although the Swans have Buddy up forward who has to be stopped while our scoring power is from a fleet of small players with our talls really just there to bring the ball to ground.

Michael tuck also forgot the name of the award that was named after him.

[The Doctor]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

We must match them early. smash them in the contest as this will set the tone. We have good endurance and run out games well so if they fight back we still have something in the tank.

I would put Easton Wood on Buddy

[The Doctor]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

double post due to crap IT

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Strategising a Grand Final Win vs Sydney

double post due to crap IT

That's what Sydney will be doing to release the internal pressure after we shove IT Right Up Them.