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Bevo and the coaching group have a big issue.. They clearly know it too. You don't win a premiership without being tactically and strategically astute.
We have a gameplan that has a heart beat around extreme, almost unseen levels of pressure and predicated on:
All to generate a tonne of shots on goal and keep the game in our forward line for large swathes of game time.
This game plan accepts that an opposition is likely to score 6-7 goals from turnovers or clean ball movement per game. All acceptable.. IF...we:
Right now our guys are not fulfilling the last two criteria, by a long margin. And unless it's fixed we're going to struggle to be a top side in 2017.
First off the mark, our skill execution is not enabling us to control the game on our terms as we'd like. Uncharacteristic turnovers when we're trying to move forward is enabling opposition sides to get more of those easy inside 50's than we'd plan for.
Second, our entries inside 50 are inept. When guys like Dahl, Macrae, Matty Boyd, JJ and Hunter (when not switched on) just deliver the ball horridly to our forwards when they have the ball between 50-70 metres out. So many times, they take a mark....stop... and our forward has a one on one... They hesitate.. allowing opposition to get numbers back.... and then end up kicking it to the guy that was originally one on one, but is now one on two or three, or sometimes 4.
Why not pull the trigger when the odds are 50/50, if you're going to go there anyway??
3rd..When we do finally manage to get a legitimate mark and shot on goal, we're just murdering it and squandering it.
I think we're 68.99 in shots on goal, this year or something like that. That's cellar dweller stuff..
Caleb Daniel, Bont, Murph, Mclean and Hunter (when switched on) are the only guys I have any semblance of confidence in to lower eyes and find a target inside 50.
What is to be done? How do Bevo and the coaching team fix these issues?
Bringing the ball better inside 50 is at least something that SHOULD be able to be addressed via coaching.
But goalkicking? In the middle of the season.
That's all in the head for a large part. I think we're going to have to hope for a lucky break where we snap and kick 16.5 one week and it releases the pressure valve from the guy's heads.
What does everyone think?
Am I off the mark in my thinking?
We have a gameplan that has a heart beat around extreme, almost unseen levels of pressure and predicated on:
- elite fitness
- winning hard balls
- forcing repeat stoppages if the ball isn't looking like getting out on our terms with quick hands
- hard running, both ways
- elite skill moving the ball, leading to
- maximum time spent with the ball inside our 50.
All to generate a tonne of shots on goal and keep the game in our forward line for large swathes of game time.
This game plan accepts that an opposition is likely to score 6-7 goals from turnovers or clean ball movement per game. All acceptable.. IF...we:
- get the game on our terms more than the opposition, and
- get quality entries inside 50s resulting in shots on goal, AND
- we kick accurately more often than we miss.
Right now our guys are not fulfilling the last two criteria, by a long margin. And unless it's fixed we're going to struggle to be a top side in 2017.
First off the mark, our skill execution is not enabling us to control the game on our terms as we'd like. Uncharacteristic turnovers when we're trying to move forward is enabling opposition sides to get more of those easy inside 50's than we'd plan for.
Second, our entries inside 50 are inept. When guys like Dahl, Macrae, Matty Boyd, JJ and Hunter (when not switched on) just deliver the ball horridly to our forwards when they have the ball between 50-70 metres out. So many times, they take a mark....stop... and our forward has a one on one... They hesitate.. allowing opposition to get numbers back.... and then end up kicking it to the guy that was originally one on one, but is now one on two or three, or sometimes 4.
Why not pull the trigger when the odds are 50/50, if you're going to go there anyway??
3rd..When we do finally manage to get a legitimate mark and shot on goal, we're just murdering it and squandering it.
I think we're 68.99 in shots on goal, this year or something like that. That's cellar dweller stuff..
Caleb Daniel, Bont, Murph, Mclean and Hunter (when switched on) are the only guys I have any semblance of confidence in to lower eyes and find a target inside 50.
What is to be done? How do Bevo and the coaching team fix these issues?
Bringing the ball better inside 50 is at least something that SHOULD be able to be addressed via coaching.
But goalkicking? In the middle of the season.
That's all in the head for a large part. I think we're going to have to hope for a lucky break where we snap and kick 16.5 one week and it releases the pressure valve from the guy's heads.
What does everyone think?
Am I off the mark in my thinking?
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