Lukas Markovic

[Cyberdoggie]

Re: Lukas Markovic

Morris can play small, Williams & Lake can play on mid/quick players. Markovic can't play on leading types, he's much better against the body contact/stand and wrestle types.

Williams struggles against anyone of any real quality in my opinion.

Petrie tore him a new one, and we simply had no one else suitable to even try on him.

Sure i can understand Petrie is a bigger player and that he would beat Williams in the strength contests, but Williams was out paced and out matched. Really dissapointing follow up from last week on a player that consistently smashes us when he's in form.

Hopefully Williams can show something more next week.

[the banker]

Re: Lukas Markovic

Only if Lake is the Quarterback who double tags. Morris can play small.

To our great misfortune we are unlikely to have this problem in the near future.

[stefoid]

Re: Lukas Markovic

The annoying thing about Williams game was that he became totally reactive thus ensuring Petrie would dominate him.

If the guy is pulling in some marks on you, why not try something different like standing 10m in front of him, or whacking him in the guts all the time to make him mad, or if he is going to beat you to the mark, smash into him to make him earn it and not be so confident the next time he goes to mark it... or SOMETHING!

and the coach... Hall often has two guys on him because he is easily our most dangerous forward. Is it illegal for us to do the same thing? Why not put Marcovic on Petrie for the bodywork and have Williams or Wood playing loose to go third man up and block his space? OR SOMETHING!

The guy had 9 shots on goal FFS!

[LostDoggy]

Re: Lukas Markovic

The annoying thing about Williams game was that he became totally reactive thus ensuring Petrie would dominate him.

If the guy is pulling in some marks on you, why not try something different like standing 10m in front of him, or whacking him in the guts all the time to make him mad, or if he is going to beat you to the mark, smash into him to make him earn it and not be so confident the next time he goes to mark it... or SOMETHING!

and the coach... Hall often has two guys on him because he is easily our most dangerous forward. Is it illegal for us to do the same thing? Why not put Marcovic on Petrie for the bodywork and have Williams or Wood playing loose to go third man up and block his space? OR SOMETHING!

The guy had 9 shots on goal FFS!

If he came into the huddle and got blasted by the coaching staff, he's not going to go back out there and try something different.

Out-coached, is what we were. I'll only lay half the blame with Williams.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Lukas Markovic

In Williams defense Petrie got some pretty good service

[stefoid]

Re: Lukas Markovic

In Williams defense Petrie got some pretty good service

So where was our chop out player on their most dangerous forward then? Apparently that is one of Hills strengths? Hello coaches.....?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Lukas Markovic

So where was our chop out player on their most dangerous forward then? Apparently that is one of Hills strengths? Hello coaches.....?

The service Petrie was getting in the last 10 mins was on the no-pressure turnover by our mids, when most of our team was already in transition to attack (especially since we were desperate to get a score on the board). Pretty hard to get a third man back in those situations, although, as you say, perhaps there could have been better instructions to our defence re: transition. Williams was left exposed, and may have done better in some situations, but Petrie is a class player left one-on-one. If Williams is to blame, every single on of our mids giving up a turnover under little to no physical pressure (yes, there was scoreboard pressure, but our leaders should be better than that) should share as much or more of the blame.

Hall was chopping his opponent up one-on-one too whenever we forced the turnover and got a quick kick back in his direction before North could structure up. That's why these gun forwards get paid the big bucks -- I don't care who the backman is, they are pretty damn hard to stop with the ball being laid on a plate by the likes of Wells and Harvey.