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Re: Sharp Axes
I don't think people (outside of the learned peoples of WOOF) realise how tenuous our defensive structure has been and how easily things could have gone the other way for us. We could have been well forgiven for dropping the games Jones and JOD were out.
Backing Khamis and instilling confidence in him, and telling Lobb he was too good to drop were great examples of backing players in, though from a technical coaching point of view the way we defend the ground has been excellent for much of the year. At this point if our midfielders and forwards put in sufficient intent to compete, our defenders have a much easier job than they have in the past.
Kudos to the coaches.
It was a genuine training drill against WCE earlier this year, but the benefit of that game was I felt I was able to see what our style of play, defending the ground and hard running forward should look like. Amazingly we've been able to bring it to the fore the past couple of months against quality sides.
Dickhead was challenged by Buckley on the radio again about whether he went too hard at Beveridge, and he held the line we have the second best list in the competition. That might end up being the case at the end of the year if the players can prove they are at that standard, but it wasn't the case at the start of it and players take time to develop and the development has been clear throughout the season.
We just need to keep it up for a month and go hard after the break.
I don't think people (outside of the learned peoples of WOOF) realise how tenuous our defensive structure has been and how easily things could have gone the other way for us. We could have been well forgiven for dropping the games Jones and JOD were out.
Backing Khamis and instilling confidence in him, and telling Lobb he was too good to drop were great examples of backing players in, though from a technical coaching point of view the way we defend the ground has been excellent for much of the year. At this point if our midfielders and forwards put in sufficient intent to compete, our defenders have a much easier job than they have in the past.
Kudos to the coaches.
It was a genuine training drill against WCE earlier this year, but the benefit of that game was I felt I was able to see what our style of play, defending the ground and hard running forward should look like. Amazingly we've been able to bring it to the fore the past couple of months against quality sides.
Dickhead was challenged by Buckley on the radio again about whether he went too hard at Beveridge, and he held the line we have the second best list in the competition. That might end up being the case at the end of the year if the players can prove they are at that standard, but it wasn't the case at the start of it and players take time to develop and the development has been clear throughout the season.
We just need to keep it up for a month and go hard after the break.
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