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Re: The Burnout
You will always get bigger numbers for the teams up the top because they are winning but for the sides around the middle and below I'm sure it's having an impact that the attractiveness of the game isn't there any more.
I used to watch just about every game that was on tv, you would get some good ones and some not as good but at least the game flowed and the forward used to lead at the ball have a good contest, usually 1 on 1.
Now it's just an ugly mess with a ridiculous amount of stoppages. I haven't done the numbers but I bet the numbers of hitouts are going up.
I don't know about you guys but I hate seeing forwards running back towards goal on leads and not towards the player with the ball.
It's boring.
After the north game I tried to convince myself it was just a product of two teams not wanting to lose and it was just a bad game aesthetically. After the Essendon game I was so disgusted in the state of what I was watching from both sides I couldn't sleep for 2 nights thinking about it. The fact that neither side wanted to take the game on and run through the middle of the ground or take any risks disgusted me. We've gone complete full circle under McCartney from when he took over, then the way we started playing last year and now this year we are back to year 1. Kicking it around the boundary line to try and force a stoppage inside 50 and hopefully scrap a goal.
The Melbourne game again was equally as ugly to watch, I think we had under 3 contested marks for the game.
Would it surprise anyone that we average 7.2 contested marks per game this year? That's for the whole team, our leading contested marks are Liam Jones and Will Minson both on 7, that's 1 a game for Liam and .8 per game for Will.
Basically that tells me several things, and in general that we suck at taking marks in contested situations so we play ugly kick it to touch football as a result.
We also did this last year until Campbell came in and straightened us up.
A look at our backline half backs also paints a picture, where is our run generated from? Higgins can't run through anything so just kicks it to a pack along the boundary line is there are no options.
Wood is too scared or turning it over by foot so he tries to play it safe these days, and the opposition know Murphy is our only asset down back so they put some work in to stopping him and his numbers are down this year. Who else do we have that can take the game on from defence without turning the ball over all the time? no one.
If you can have players that are willing to take risks and get away with it just brings the rest of the players into the game naturally. Look at the quality of running options Hawthorn has compared to us. It's scary.
Anyway I'm very apathetic about watching the sport I used to love so much these days and hopefully others feel the same so that perhaps the message gets out that it's just not acceptable. This is the Australian people's game, not the coaches. I think we have a bigger say than we think.
You will always get bigger numbers for the teams up the top because they are winning but for the sides around the middle and below I'm sure it's having an impact that the attractiveness of the game isn't there any more.
I used to watch just about every game that was on tv, you would get some good ones and some not as good but at least the game flowed and the forward used to lead at the ball have a good contest, usually 1 on 1.
Now it's just an ugly mess with a ridiculous amount of stoppages. I haven't done the numbers but I bet the numbers of hitouts are going up.
I don't know about you guys but I hate seeing forwards running back towards goal on leads and not towards the player with the ball.
It's boring.
After the north game I tried to convince myself it was just a product of two teams not wanting to lose and it was just a bad game aesthetically. After the Essendon game I was so disgusted in the state of what I was watching from both sides I couldn't sleep for 2 nights thinking about it. The fact that neither side wanted to take the game on and run through the middle of the ground or take any risks disgusted me. We've gone complete full circle under McCartney from when he took over, then the way we started playing last year and now this year we are back to year 1. Kicking it around the boundary line to try and force a stoppage inside 50 and hopefully scrap a goal.
The Melbourne game again was equally as ugly to watch, I think we had under 3 contested marks for the game.
Would it surprise anyone that we average 7.2 contested marks per game this year? That's for the whole team, our leading contested marks are Liam Jones and Will Minson both on 7, that's 1 a game for Liam and .8 per game for Will.
Basically that tells me several things, and in general that we suck at taking marks in contested situations so we play ugly kick it to touch football as a result.
We also did this last year until Campbell came in and straightened us up.
A look at our backline half backs also paints a picture, where is our run generated from? Higgins can't run through anything so just kicks it to a pack along the boundary line is there are no options.
Wood is too scared or turning it over by foot so he tries to play it safe these days, and the opposition know Murphy is our only asset down back so they put some work in to stopping him and his numbers are down this year. Who else do we have that can take the game on from defence without turning the ball over all the time? no one.
If you can have players that are willing to take risks and get away with it just brings the rest of the players into the game naturally. Look at the quality of running options Hawthorn has compared to us. It's scary.
Anyway I'm very apathetic about watching the sport I used to love so much these days and hopefully others feel the same so that perhaps the message gets out that it's just not acceptable. This is the Australian people's game, not the coaches. I think we have a bigger say than we think.
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