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doppo
11 Jul 2004, 15:16
As soon as a team starts putting some pressure on our boys we constantly resort to playing this stupid brand of defensive football.

Blind kicks out of the defensive fifty, usually to groups of free opposition players so they can kick it straight back in.

Handball after handball after handball in the midfield until someone chokes it up.

Blind kicks forward that usually go to a loose opposition player around half forward.

Add to this constant skill errors and we have ourselves some very ugly football.

It happened against St Kilda, The Hawks, Essendon, Melbourne, to an extent Port, and now the Kangaroos.

The frustrating thing is, they haven't learnt how to deal with pressure after all these games.

hoss
11 Jul 2004, 15:24
Originally posted by doppo
As soon as a team starts putting some pressure on our boys we constantly resort to playing this stupid brand of defensive football.

Blind kicks out of the defensive fifty, usually to groups of free opposition players so they can kick it straight back in.

Handball after handball after handball in the midfield until someone chokes it up.

Blind kicks forward that usually go to a loose opposition player around half forward.

Add to this constant skill errors and we have ourselves some very ugly football.

It happened against St Kilda, The Hawks, Essendon, Melbourne, to an extent Port, and now the Kangaroos.

The frustrating thing is, they haven't learnt how to deal with pressure after all these games.

yep. what doppo said.

Darkjedi
14 Jul 2004, 14:04
sad but true!

funky_monk
14 Jul 2004, 23:47
Originally posted by Darkjedi
sad but true!

Agreed.

purplesoul
15 Jul 2004, 00:19
For sure - and I guess this is the area of our game where we really needed to see the improvement this year.