Memo John Longmire. Ditch the flood.

[thecotch]

John, the flooding tactics you employed today are not working any more. You don't have players with enough leg speed to use the flooding tactics and against the better sides in coll and geel u will get smashed.

Bloody hell the first half was painful to watch with every swans player consistently in the richmond forward half. Thankfully the tigers run and carry and leg speed broke the game open and provided some entertaining footy.

 

[SM]

Memo Swans Board. Ditch the dud.

 

[sparklig]

John, the flooding tactics you employed today are not working any more. You don't have players with enough leg speed to use the flooding tactics and against the better sides in coll and geel u will get smashed.

Bloody hell the first half was painful to watch with every swans player consistently in the richmond forward half. Thankfully the tigers run and carry and leg speed broke the game open and provided some entertaining footy.

Yes, John Longmire is an ordinary coach. I agree that he has nothing original to offer from what we have seen so far.

Why do you say 'leg speed'? Isn't it just 'speed'?

 

[Mervyn Beasley]

Yes, John Longmire is an ordinary coach. I agree that he has nothing original to offer from what we have seen so far.

Why do you say 'leg speed'? Isn't it just 'speed'?

Leg speed! One of many stupid catch phrases that have infiltrated commentary and discussion.

Notice how nobody 'takes' a mark any-more? Instead they 'clunk' them

In fact, if you have plenty of leg speed and a few players who can clunk a mark you will really put on some 'scoreboard pressure'.

 

[sparklig]

Leg speed! One of many stupid catch phrases that have infiltrated commentary and discussion.

Notice how nobody 'takes' a mark any-more? Instead they 'clunk' them

In fact, if you have plenty of leg speed and a few players who can clunk a mark you will really put on some 'scoreboard pressure'.

Oh, I love this kind of newspeak!

Although I would never suggest that it is not just a ploy for someone who does not really understand the game to try and sound intelligent and insightful.

After all, how pertinent is 'a fast team that takes marks will kick goals'?

 

[Masto]

Speed can refer to any number of things: speed of ball movement, speed of players, ben cousins etc nothing wrong with saying 'leg speed'.

 

[SM]

Though in answer to your point of 'getting smashed' by Collingwood - I think we've recorded the highest score against them and only lost by 6.

 

[Mervyn Beasley]

Speed can refer to any number of things: speed of ball movement, speed of players, ben cousins etc nothing wrong with saying 'leg speed'.

If someone says Chris Yarran is quick or pacy we know what they mean. We dont need to be told he has 'leg speed'!

 

[sparklig]

Speed can refer to any number of things: speed of ball movement, speed of players, ben cousins etc nothing wrong with saying 'leg speed'.

I am sorry, but apart from the already done Ben Cousins gag you are using speed to mean 'speed' in the traditional and universally understood sense. Therefore, 'leg speed' is redundant.

Do you say 'finger touch'?

 

[Masto]

If someone says Chris Yarran is quick or pacy we know what they mean. We dont need to be told he has 'leg speed'!

IMO there is a difference between quickness (which I would equate with agility) and leg speed (straight line speed). Certainly in other sports like the NFL they refer to it as different things, there are different types of speed

 

[Tas]

Flooding is a good tactic to batten down the hatches when there is a significant momentum swing against you but it makes for a poor game strategy as your scoring is inhibited that badly that you do not take advantage of momentum swings in your favour or make it hard to swing the momentum around in your favour.

Good teams often struggle to bury teams that flood badly, which is why it is often employed where a team believes they are significantly inferior in the 1 on 1 contests all over the ground.

The strategy works best against sides that use the ball poorly going inside 50 and continue to bomb it in no matter how many players are sitting in your forward 50.

It is a false dawn though as the good teams don't usually play that way.

 

[Rough_Edges]

Every single team floods.

Wake up to yourselves.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Would prefer St Kilda stopped it first.

Always hear "miserly" saints, Yeah its hard to score when a team gets ahead by a few pts then stacks their backline with 17 players.

 

[Dangas]

Point-less discussion as I'm sure Sydney aren't the ONLY side to employ the "flooding" tactic that you are referring to at the moment

 

[CAS79]

Point-less discussion as I'm sure Sydney aren't the ONLY side to employ the "flooding" tactic that you are referring to at the moment

nor was it overtly prominent yesterday. We got caught on the rebound by having too many players forward more than once while Richmond cleared fast through the middle on the break. If your referring to the fact our guys ran back if we held the game up while you were on the offence, well that's just common sense.

Flooding was not a factor in the defeat yesterday. Pure speed and midfield skill from Richmond decimated us.

 

[Damon_3388]

IMO there is a difference between quickness (which I would equate with agility) and leg speed (straight line speed). Certainly in other sports like the NFL they refer to it as different things, there are different types of speed

They're all generally assumed to involve running and the movement of the legs though, aren't they? The "leg" in "leg speed" is redundant.