Saints v. Swans gameday thread
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There weren't too many good players last night and we were let down by our experienced players. Macca was soft and kept moaning to the umpie and fudging frees (which he didn't get just because of it). Bolts was non-existent. ROK did a few good things in the first and disappeared until swung into defence as a loosey. Still managed to be in the wrong place most times. LRT should be in the backline. Reg didn't protect Teddy from being blocked by his player 4 times, you'd think he might just wake up after the first. Teddy did at least try. Smithy, I never thought I would say this about him but he ducked it! Mal and Shaw kicked to anyone but our players.
Horse: got the match ups wrong, got caught out time and time again. Tried a very old game plan of just bombing the ball and we got flogged because we couldn't get the ball out of our back line. Yes we push far too far up and bring the ball in far too slowly that is why we get caught on the spread. TDL on was a @@@@ move by an obviously first oh @@@@ second year coach. Oh! By the way you got totally out-coached. You were reacting not being proactive. He had you just where he wanted you. He kept mixing up his mids and you got caught out every time. I am not sure if our mids actually knew who they were on half the time. But you didn't try the obvious in the second quarter and put Tommy in the ruck! WHY?
Backs Coach John Blakey; The kick out strategy would have to be yours John and it SUCKS!
Forward Coach Henry Playfair; Henry fight harder for your forward structure and the placement of players as in TDL! Please advise Horse that bombing the bombing the ball in blind is not good for the forwards.
Mids Coach Stewart Dew; Boy oh boy were you shellacked! Your lot took a hiding and the set up in the centre square is the main culprit. Add to that the wingers staying too far off waiting and you have disaster. Your lot got caught out on the transitions. Did they actually know who they were on? It seemed at one stage three of them were chasing either Lenny or Stevens around. When they set up on their defensive side your guys get caught out every time, WHY?
Reserves Coach Jared Crouch; You get off only because you had the bye! But you might like to suggest some things to Horse if he is willing to listen. Like keeping the run on style and not shutting it down when we get ahead. Getting rid of those terrible kick ins.Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.Comment
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My Manager told me that one as I was working out how many SKODA chips I could buy with my next royalty payment.
Basher buddy, if you haven't worked it out yet - How we feel means little to how the team plays. So after a loss I get out my guitar and sing a few songs. Well last night I ate some SKODA chips instead.
If you want to read a really sad true life story, I put one in for you here:
Nothing like a good light bulb moment.Comment
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George Bernard Shaw said - You call it negativity, I call it observation.
My Manager told me that one as I was working out how many SKODA chips I could buy with my next royalty payment.
Basher buddy, if you haven't worked it out yet - How we feel means little to how the team plays. So after a loss I get out my guitar and sing a few songs. Well last night I ate some SKODA chips instead.
If you want to read a really sad true life story, I put one in for you here:
http://www.news.com.au/national/melb...-1226368115867Comment
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Where have all the goalkickers gone?
See article attached. I think this gives a pretty good explanantion as to why our leading tall forwards are just not dominating - Put simply its becasue very few tall forwards are. The press used by pretty much every coach of a leading team in the league (including Longmire) is preventing it. This style of game plan requires 100 percent effort and in my opinion also leads to the flipping results we see. You only need to be down 10 percent and all of a sudden you look slow and out of touch.Comment
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Where have all the goalkickers gone?
See article attached. I think this gives a pretty good explanantion as to why our leading tall forwards are just not dominating - Put simply its becasue very few tall forwards are. The press used by pretty much every coach of a leading team in the league (including Longmire) is preventing it. This style of game plan requires 100 percent effort and in my opinion also leads to the flipping results we see. You only need to be down 10 percent and all of a sudden you look slow and out of touch.Comment
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