Time on ground

[Nico]

Last night I noticed something about the rotations.

It appeared that Spriggs and McVeigh went off and on in tandem, yet when they come they immediately got possession out in the open.

Time on ground:

Spriggs - 16 possessions - 65 minutes
McVeigh - 11 " - 58 minutes
Buchanan - 13 " - 84 minutes
Nicks - 11 " - 111 minutes
SChneider - 11 " - 92 minutes
Mathews - 9 " - 73 minutes
Davis - 9 " - 88 minutes (why off 30 minutes)

My point here is on what I observed both Spriggs and McVeigh should play most of the game. If Spriggs can get 16 possessions in half a game and with his endurance why in the hell does he only play a minor role. McVeigh, apart from his "got caught clanger" (where was the talking from team mates) was pretty good in his cameo roles. I am stunned as to why Davis is ever off the ground.

One theory I have is that the massive rotations used by Roos doesn't do cohesion any good. They must be checking the scoreboard to see when they"must" come off.

I cannot for the life of me, given Buchanan's poor disposal and Schneider's inabilty to find the footy and poor vision (nice kick to Melbourne player in the square - he only rarely kicks that far) how they get more time than Spriggs and McVeigh.

What's the answer coach?

[Snowy]

McVeigh needs to get more game time to develop him. Buchanan should not be in the team in the first place. Molloy said Davis needs to get himself fit, ditto Schneider. Said the team will improve when they get themselves fit. I also thought that Davis and to some extent MOL were redundant last night because playing in a congested forward line when most of the ball is delivered to Hall made it hard for them to get into the contest. Sprigg's big asset is his fitness so you could let him run himself ragged.

[liz]

Re: Time on ground

Originally posted by Nico
McVeigh, apart from his "got caught clanger" (where was the talking from team mates) was pretty good in his cameo roles.

I thought it was one of McVeigh's best games and was a bit surprised when I came home and looked at the stats and realised he didn't get that many possessions.

Endurance can't be the problem with him so surely he should be playing substantially all of the game in the middle at the moment, at least while we are missing Williams.

[Nico]

Liz he is playing his HALF a game in the midfield.

We need more creative midfielders like him. Half our side are defensive taggers for goodness sake.

[stellation]

Davis' fitness does seem to be improving (at least he was sucking in not-quite-so-giant breaths when he came to the bench last night compared to Rds 1 and 4).

He does seem to be suffering a bit from Mickey playing, Roos is moving him to FF whenever Mickey is off the field... one of the big problems to me being that at times Mickey is off the field because he has had to do some running that has been brought about by Davis finding a bit of the pill around the ground... so as soon as he Davis gets a touch around the ground he gets sent to no mans land.

[Nico]

Could it be that Roos is outcoaching himself.

[anne]

I'm glad he can outcoach himself as he can't outcoach anyone else!

[Snowy]

The forward structure ironically enough has looked worse since MOL has returned. As Roos said last night it looked dysfunctional. But it still seems to me that Hall is the option too many times, especially when he is swamped. Davis et al were virtually redundant last night because the runners had tunnel vision for Barry and often when he was caught out of position as well as surrounded.

[ScottH]

Re: Re: Time on ground

Originally posted by liz
I thought it was one of McVeigh's best games and was a bit surprised when I came home and looked at the stats and realised he didn't get that many possessions.

The reason for this was that most of his possessions were quality possessions!! Except when he got run down with the ball, but that was not entirely his fault, he shoulda been told he was hot!

[stellation]

Re: Re: Re: Time on ground

Originally posted by ScottH
The reason for this was that most of his possessions were quality possessions!! Except when he got run down with the ball, but that was not entirely his fault, he shoulda been told he was hot!

It's not like it's a team game or anything Scott!

[ScottH]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Time on ground

Originally posted by stellation
It's not like it's a team game or anything Scott!

Sorry, forgot it was individual immunity up for grabs!!!

Lets play for ourselves so we don't get dropped.

[satchmopugdog]

That seemed to be the standout thing for me and my neighbour in our analysis this morning after recapturing my bloody dog who keeps escaping, that whenever Spriggs came on the ground something seemed to happen. Very pleasing for his sake,not that it matters what two middle aged dog capturing Ulverstonians think.

[Nico]

Originally posted by satchmopugdog
That seemed to be the standout thing for me and my neighbour in our analysis this morning after recapturing my bloody dog who keeps escaping, that whenever Spriggs came on the ground something seemed to happen. Very pleasing for his sake,not that it matters what two middle aged dog capturing Ulverstonians think.

But did the dogs catch any Tassie Tigers?

[ScottH]

Interesting to see that Dempster was one of 3 to stay on the ground all night. One of the others was Hall.
(Ed: actually 1 of 6)

Roos obviously has a lot of faith in him.

[satchmopugdog]

Forgot to add that my neighbour and I (not that his opinion is worth much as he wears surf sandals WITH socks) thought Dempster was great. No Tassie Tigers were caught but my cat often deposits half a bandicoot on the front door mat.