tigerdan
Norm Smith Medallist
With match ups in finals we could win the flag or go out first up. We have not worked out a way to win when opposition teams play keepings off with a key forward clunking it.
This was forgiveable last year. It is not forgivable this year. The persistence with zone defence allows those teams to cut us up. This should have been obvious by half time in the Bulldogs game (if not earlier); to persist with another game and a half of hoping things will change is not acceptable.
I don't care if we try something *ed and it doesn't work. I do care when time after time the same style of play cuts us up. I'd argue that the missing players wouldn't stop the oppos cutting us up with keepings off. All it would change with rance back is the talls would kick less goals but their smalls would kick them instead.
Is our game plan really so incompatible with man on man?
This was forgiveable last year. It is not forgivable this year. The persistence with zone defence allows those teams to cut us up. This should have been obvious by half time in the Bulldogs game (if not earlier); to persist with another game and a half of hoping things will change is not acceptable.
I don't care if we try something *ed and it doesn't work. I do care when time after time the same style of play cuts us up. I'd argue that the missing players wouldn't stop the oppos cutting us up with keepings off. All it would change with rance back is the talls would kick less goals but their smalls would kick them instead.
Is our game plan really so incompatible with man on man?