2022-Where’s the improvement coming from?

[catempire]

You are simplfying what we have changed a tad. Play on handball from set positions is a major change. That aint pressure football. Kicking quickly long down the guts aint really pressure football either. Its just the way football used to always be played. Pressure football is flooding a zone to create and win a contest. We dont really do that particularly much either. We tackle and chase hard. All good sides do. our foward line now has less pressure players tgen it did two years ago. Gone are the days when our smalls were primarily defensive like dalhaus and atkins and to a lesser degree parfitt whose prime job was to tackle and chase And force a contest. we dont play those sorts of players up foward anymore. We now only play offensive fowards first. Our midfields a little more defensive but not by much.

Looks like you are the one simplifying when you don’t recognise the role pressure has played in the turnaround.

 

[goyoucatters]

Looks like you are the one simplifying when you don’t recognise the role pressure has played in the turnaround.

It's been massive. The willingness to press up and attack the ball-carrier rather than fold back and let the possession chains reach our D50 has been a huge adjustment to how we are playing. You thus give yourself the chance to win the ball back much higher up the ground, with less distance to travel and more space to share the ball into in going forward.

Sure beats long, slow bombs to a contest from the back half. Or dinky short balls that miss their target and turn the footy over within sight of our own goals. We are so much better for having committed to a system that tries to win the ball back earlier and then go quickly the other way. And we absolutely have the personnel to make this game plan hum now as well.

Better to watch and more suited to high-stakes finals footy. Happy days.

 

[catempire]

It's been massive. The willingness to press up and attack the ball-carrier rather than fold back and let the possession chains reach our D50 has been a huge adjustment to how we are playing. You thus give yourself the chance to win the ball back much higher up the ground, with less distance to travel and more space to share the ball into in going forward.

Sure beats long, slow bombs to a contest from the back half. Or dinky short balls that miss their target and turn the footy over within sight of our own goals. We are so much better for having committed to a system that tries to win the ball back earlier and then go quickly the other way. And we absolutely have the personnel to make this game plan hum now as well.

Better to watch and more suited to high-stakes finals footy. Happy days.

Yes agree. Scott tried to starve the opposition of momentum by controlling possession in 2022. It has some intuitive appeal and a lot of the time it was very effective. But it had two flaws. Firstly, you can’t deny the opposition forever and when they did break through because we were so stagnant we couldn’t get back in numbers to assist our backs. Secondly, if you don’t take the initiative and move the ball the opposition can fold back and make it harder for your forwards. When you put pressure on the opposition and force turnovers you put them on the back foot. When you do it better than them you shift the power balance so that they are always reacting making it harder for them to hurt you.

 

[catscratchfever]

The improvement is coming from the Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

47

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

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