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A lot of clubs have been having intra practice matches, Essendon had one, will we before nth syd?
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Re: intra club practice match
Well .. with a week to go .. I kind of doubt it.Originally posted by footyhead
A lot of clubs have been having intra practice matches, Essendon had one, will we before nth syd?Good men do good deeds. Evil men do evil deeds. But it takes religion for a good man to do evil deeds. -
Geelong had one also.
I think we (should have had one) / (should have one). It might help Roos and the coaching staff see where the players are at and who has improved their skills and fitness blah blah in a stimulated match-like game!And the man who started it, the Schneiderman, can kick his third for the quarter. And the swans are in the Grand Final!
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Just thought I'd quote the most sensible part of your statement.Originally posted by LittleSchneider
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So what - you dont think having an inter club match is a good idea then?And the man who started it, the Schneiderman, can kick his third for the quarter. And the swans are in the Grand Final!
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Inter club pre-season games are fine. They are a good way to build match fitness, try certain players in certain positions, build some team unity, confidence and re-familiarity with playing together as a team again under match pressure, unlike the conditions of training drills. Intra club matches are, IMO worse than a waste of time. In my experience, in any sport, they are a bad way to start a season. How hard does a player go? Should Barry Hall carve LRT up in a game, how hard should he attack a contested ball with Bevan, or Matthews? How would a players' season be affected if at a contest he rubbed Goodes out for 8 weeks, or the season, or Hall or Kirk? How hard do blokes competing for similar spots in the team go against each other? Such matches are a great opportunity for needless injury (just ask Bucks this week) and an opportunity to sow seeds of disunity. And for what benefit? I am sure that the coaching staff have a fairly good handle on where each of the players are at. If they do not then I think that the board might want to renegotiate their contracts. They get paid an awful lot of money to be on top of these things.Comment
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Only talking from last year at the Newcastle Community Camp but From what was said Roosy wasn't a big fan of the full boar intra club practice match.
On one of the days they played a game but it was more of an end to end set play type of thing. They had men to mark and contested for possession but it was more token pressure- no tackling etc. For instance they may have given someone possession at a certain part of the ground after a goal and they had to work a set play to the goals to see how it worked.
On the other hand the year before Geelong had a full tilt game against each other & IIRC Garry Ablett Junior injured his knee.Comment
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You only have to look at West Coast's Brad Smith doing his knee this week during an Eagles's intra club match only to see why such an idea might be the best one. As it is I don't think playing an intra club match would do us any good considering we will be playing an extra practice match (against Essendon this Friday) that other clubs won't be doing.Once was, now elsewhereComment
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That is exactly what they spend about half their main team training sessions doing once the season gets going.Originally posted by Northern_Swan
On one of the days they played a game but it was more of an end to end set play type of thing.Comment
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Hmmm... so many comments but a [PG] rated board prevents me...Originally posted by LittleSchneider
in a stimulated match-like game!Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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