Player Watch #25: Robbie Tarrant - contract extended to the end of 2021

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Their Brown was conceding serious height to Drew but it didn't stop him from comprehensively beating Drew. Nor did the size diff stop Thompson from beating Cloke last year.
All you have to do was look at the difference in quality of delivery. Cloke had pinpoint passes to his advantage, Petrie consistently had the ball kicked over his head or sat on top of him for 3 blokes to crunch him.
 

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All you have to do was look at the difference in quality of delivery. Cloke had pinpoint passes to his advantage, Petrie consistently had the ball kicked over his head or sat on top of him for 3 blokes to crunch him.
So what your saying is the only time the 3 talls works is when our midfield is dominating and delivering the ball inside 50 to advantage.
 

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So what your saying is the only time the 3 talls works is when our midfield is dominating and delivering the ball inside 50 to advantage.
Our midfield did dominate. The only thing that prevented us from winning the game yesterday was kicks to advantage. Almost all Collingwoods score came from our turnovers.
 

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Which games were those? He had a reasonable time down back IIRC. Leaked goals, as in had bags kicked against him? Just asking.
Can't quote games/stats. Just recall the frustration of watching a bloke who looked like a fish out of water, either failing to contest marks, or giving away frees, making bad decisions etc.
 

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Geez, Im a fan of Tarrant but watching the first quarter some of his efforts left much to be desired. Particularly when Toovey beat LT in that one on one contest his effort to tackle then was pathetic. Would nearly play Black or Daw on that alone.
If hes in the team for his intensity then we are being made fools of.
If he is in the team for his tank then he didnt do enough.
 

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Not disagreeing with a lot of the comments, and I was very frustrated with both the delivery and the lack of marking by all our forwards on Sunday, but I'll just throw in that Pendlebury is a bloody good overhead mark - getting beaten by him in a contest is not the shame some people suggest.
 

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It wasn't just our delivery. Collingwood somehow managed to block all our normal ball movement patterns. We are used to moving the ball to blokes in space from half back, yet on this occasion our players mostly struggled to find a meter gap between themselves and Collingwood player. That resulted in bombing the ball forward, which we didn't intend to do, I am pretty sure. Their pressure and knowledge of how we wanted to play did the job. Somewhat similar to how Ross Lyon teams (both St Kilda and Freo) had success against us.
 

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When the transition from the backhalf is slow and indecisive, it plays into the hands of the opposition giving ample time to set up their zones and space blocking strategies. That's what we have at the minute and i think we have added mental pressure to our skill execution and we saw the results over the weekend. The number of times we missed free standing guys 20 metres away in the clear tells me our heads were over-analysing even the most basic of situations.

it's clearly a tactical ploy by the coaching dept and we are obviously struggling with it's implementation. This has been evident all preseason.

Over time, not utilising the last practice match as a full dress rehersal will be looked on as a possible mistake internally I reckon.
 

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It wasn't just our delivery. Collingwood somehow managed to block all our normal ball movement patterns. We are used to moving the ball to blokes in space from half back, yet on this occasion our players mostly struggled to find a meter gap between themselves and Collingwood player. That resulted in bombing the ball forward, which we didn't intend to do, I am pretty sure. Their pressure and knowledge of how we wanted to play did the job. Somewhat similar to how Ross Lyon teams (both St Kilda and Freo) had success against us.
:thumbsu: very astute post, agree completely
 

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we have slightly changed our game plan... We are trying to be more defensive coming out of the backline, trying to control the ball a lot more instead of handballing and running out of the back line all the time. If our skills were up to it then it wouldn't be a problem but our skills are shit so we cant afford to wait for a decent lead and hit them on the chest etc.
 

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taz looked very strong today, should have gone to him more when he is clunking them like that.

Hopefully he keeps this up for the rest of the year
 
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