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'In the Mix'
My most hated term come draft time.
'In the Mix'
My most hated term come draft time.
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Re: Football Glossary
There or thereaboutsFloat Along - Fill Your LungsComment
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Yeah nah (the start of every footballer's response to a question).But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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'Check-side' is a term bastardised from its original use in snooker which, along with its sister term 'running-side', describes the concept of the type of side-spin one can impart on a cue ball.
A check-side spin causes a cue ball to narrow the angle of rebound (compared to if there was no sidespin on the ball) and slow up after it hits the cushion.
('Running-side' spin, on the other hand, causes the cue ball to rebound wider and also speed up when compared to the normal reaction of a cue ball without said sidespin.)
If I were to hazard a guess, the bastardised version of the term would have become common usage in football to allude to the fact that you have to kick the ball with some level of sidespin in order to make it curve in the air.Comment
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The inside – outside analysis is almost 20 years out of date.
Terry Wheeler had the idea when he coached the club of insiders (in and under players) who won contested ball in packs; Axe, Libba and Wally and shoveled it out to skilled players in space like Leon Cameron who then distributed it with great aplomb to attacking moves. He would have different ideas today but that was his analysis then.
This was fine until coaches started to realize that if you hunted the receiver of such efforts you didn’t have to win the ball yourself or could negate the advantage so gained. Today they also clog up space by having strategic patterns around stoppages etc. In fact Smith when he coached Melbourne in the late 50s initiated this at throw ins.
That is why today’s football is not so easily described as insiders and outsiders because both Cooney and Griff are usually under great pressure when they receive the ball and need to duck and weave to get space to distribute. They are not any longer outsiders, not only because they have very little space on receipt of the pill but also because they play a role in extracting the pill in the first place in certain situations.
I would argue that there are two sorts of insider players these days; the first are the ball winners in our case typified by Crossie and Boyd and the pack breakers like Coon and Griff, but both roles are interchangeable. Especially when they play ring a rosie handball in packs looking for an openning and by the time they find one it might be the player who won the ball who also ends up breaking free with it, just watch what the cats do.
As for outside players, well Terry Wallace wanted a team full of runners in which everyone became an offensive threat at certain times and this trend continues, so it’s hard to think who isn’t an outside player; it depends on how and where the ball is won, and how it moves.
I don’t think anybody stands back and says my role is purely defensive I won’t get involved in this attacking move by making space to receive and move the ball on.Last edited by alwaysadog; 25-11-2009, 12:54 PM.[I]I believe there's nothing on this earth that we own. All we do is look after it for our children - Terry Wheeler[/I]Comment
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nice analysis aad.But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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"The modern game" - The term loved by commentators and despised by me. Just when exactly did footy become 'the modern game' and why wasn't I told at the time? And what the hell was I watching before footy became 'the modern game'? It felt pretty modern at the time but it never pranced around with 'the modern game' label like we have to suffer through now.
'The modern game' is wheeled out by fools whenever they feel the need to explain what is happening when two ordinary teams with ordinary skills and ordinary coaches meet and play an ordinary brand of football. That's been happening for one hundred years; so why only now do we blame the present?
Seriously, when did 'the modern game' start? It can't be when players stopped holding position and started filling space because that's been happening for more than a decade and surely it isn't that modern any more.Comment
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[I]I believe there's nothing on this earth that we own. All we do is look after it for our children - Terry Wheeler[/I]Comment
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