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Anyone else find this thread interesting on the AFL Board?
Interesting Stats here (http://www.westozracing.com/index.cfm?Page_ID=18&News_ID=4848). Melbourne is a surprise in the 3rd quarter
Most interesting thing for me was our poor first quarter performances. Why are we relatively poor in Q1?
jd hot stuff
9 Jun 2006, 02:26
Anyone else find this thread interesting on the AFL Board?
Most interesting thing for me was our poor first quarter performances. Why are we relatively poor in Q1?
Very interesting find Dry Rot. I think the only reason for our poor first qtr's is maybe we take a while to get started or that we just cant seam to run over a team as they are fresh and not tired or lossing energy. Good to see that our second and third qtr's are very stong and thats a good sing as its the most busy't time of the match, and if we win the 2 qtr's we get home esaly.
I have no idea and find it very frustrating. Perhaps our speed, pressure and fitness levels wear teams down to the point where we can run over the top of them.
If we can could get a run on and force opponents to chase us from the start I reckon most teams would find it very hard to catch us. The stifling, man-on-man tactics that have been employed against us would be mentally difficult to maintain if we were 20 or 30 points up. For instance, I doubt if Grant Thomas would have had the nerve to play Rielwoldt in that holding role down back if we had got an early break.
Look at the Port Adelaide game. We got ahead early and never looked back.
I think the last time a team came from 20 or 30 points down to beat us would have been the round 21 clash against the Demons last year. It rarely happens these days.
Wind Sock
9 Jun 2006, 03:13
Remember the first game against Richmond. Eade said that it was the relentless first half pressure that wore them down. The only team that's folded early without much of a fight was Port.
I took Eade to be implying that we won't be running over teams unless we break them first. In other words, the attacking game we think of as ours is based on solid defense and one-on-one pressure. Perhaps we only need to get that run-on game going for 15 to 20 minutes a match to win against most sides. I think in quite a few games we've done it in fits and starts—five minutes here, ten minutes there. It's still a mystery to me.