Why are we so bad at playing in the wet?

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  • Meg
    Go Swannies!
    Site Admin
    • Aug 2011
    • 4828

    #16
    Originally posted by sharp9
    Also we are clearly nowhere near as fit as them.
    Agree. But why?

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    • wolftone57
      Veterans List
      • Aug 2008
      • 5835

      #17
      I found the players handling the ball like a slippery bar of soap frustrating. I wonder if our side still use rosin on the players hands in the wet? It is the best substance for helping grip the ball in the wet. I can remember when I was a kid the players all used it and I used it and it proved really good in wet conditions. You could actually grip the ball. Interesting that it is distilled from oil of turpentine, you'd think it would be slippery but it isn't, it is sticky.

      Our ball handling in slippery conditions is a problem and certainly we need to lose the dinky handball in these conditions and we also need to lose the panic kick out of defence as it almost always comes back.

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      • bloodsbigot
        Regular in the Side
        • Mar 2010
        • 813

        #18
        The mythbusters should put this theory to practice.

        If it's a day game and it's not raining, I'm always confident we'll win.

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