Tactical analysis : The HB winger

[Mofra]

Re: Tactical analysis : The HB winger

I noticed Bont doing this a couple of weeks ago as well.
It is only for CBs though - we have been doing well keeping our wings quite wide during regular in-game stoppages.

It probably comes down to how coaches treat the wing role. Some keep the wings 'to a side' so their heat maps will be mostly left/right. Some deploy them with a forward/back bias depending on whether they want to speed the game up or slow it down. Some will have the HF run high to the contest, or just ahead of it to move the ball quickly if we get a spillage in front of the stoppage.

Given our run in the past month or so, I say whatever the hell we're doing - keep doing it.

[Mofra]

Re: Tactical analysis : The HB winger

If anyone saw Essendon get a CBA clearance and kick the winning point with 1 minute to go - I'm not sure that happens with the easy we now set up. A defensive wing would cause a high kick to the D50 where we now clearly back our intercept marking players in.

[Happy Days]

Re: Tactical analysis : The HB winger

If anyone saw Essendon get a CBA clearance and kick the winning point with 1 minute to go - I'm not sure that happens with the easy we now set up. A defensive wing would cause a high kick to the D50 where we now clearly back our intercept marking players in.

MJP already said it but brother that gave me war flashbacks.

[Grantysghost]

Re: Tactical analysis : The HB winger

If anyone saw Essendon get a CBA clearance and kick the winning point with 1 minute to go - I'm not sure that happens with the easy we now set up. A defensive wing would cause a high kick to the D50 where we now clearly back our intercept marking players in.

I was at the game, it was interesting as both midfields really backed themselves in that last cba. It's hard to cover all the space for sure and I think Freo's wingers were probably too high (one maybe should have been deeper) but it was so fast it was really down to the centre square guys.

There was one earlier where Young took it out of CB, bounced three times and goaled, all the Essendon defenders stayed back and on their mans. Was weird.

BTW Mckay is very average and so is Nick Cox. I heard Cox is over 200cm, he would need to be 300 to be any good...very soft player and slow. Easily nudged off the ball.

It's the beauty of the 666 it really does allow for these comebacks late.

Agree though that Durham kick would have been pressured / he would have been covered.