I'd be interested to see how the "corridor" sides are lining up, during the actual game.
So am I, now that you mention it PE.
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I'd be interested to see how the "corridor" sides are lining up, during the actual game.
The question you should be asking is - Is Mick Malthouse 'Capable of a More Handball-Centric, Corridor Directed Gamestyle?'
I'd like to make 2 comments:
1. I think that MM's comment about not having the "players" to go through the corridor is only partially correct, but alo bull. He coached a West Coast Eagle team that had an outstanding midfield, full of talent, yet they still played predominantly wide. It is an MM trademark and I doubt it would change much even if we had Ablett and Judd in our team.
2. We are starting to get the talent to be more direct in my opinion. Pendles and Leon would relish it for sure and both Swan and Thomas, bearing in mind their overhead skills and run, would be very important. Also, the likes of Clarke, Beams, Wellingham, and Sidebottom would all be advantaged. I think we are building a team that has the capacity to play through the middle more and damage teams severely.
Where is the evidence of this?We are told to play wide, so we do.
Where is the evidence of this?
Malthouse only has himself to blame in terms of "cattle", and it's not a recruiting issue IMO, but rather he wants to play the good bloke duds over the more skilled but less controllable types.
We saw last week how we moved the pill once we injected a couple of extra skilled runners in Wellingham and Corrie. We didn't consciously play the corridor or the flanks, we just moved it however suited us best at the time; THAT is the game plan you want! **** forcing it down the corridor. Teams who do that are below us on the ladder.
Playing Toovey, Goldsack, maybe Reid for the first game and having Leigh Brown drop behind the ball, of course you are going to struggle with footskills and have guys play within themselves (chip wide for safety). We have superior "cattle". We just need to play them and back them and coach them rather than sidle up to "grouse blokes that MM wants to date". The Lokan/Williams/Morrison days should be over. We need to win games with talent!
Where is the evidence of this?
Malthouse only has himself to blame in terms of "cattle", and it's not a recruiting issue IMO, but rather he wants to play the good bloke duds over the more skilled but less controllable types.
We saw last week how we moved the pill once we injected a couple of extra skilled runners in Wellingham and Corrie. We didn't consciously play the corridor or the flanks, we just moved it however suited us best at the time; THAT is the game plan you want! **** forcing it down the corridor. Teams who do that are below us on the ladder.
Playing Toovey, Goldsack, maybe Reid for the first game and having Leigh Brown drop behind the ball, of course you are going to struggle with footskills and have guys play within themselves (chip wide for safety). We have superior "cattle". We just need to play them and back them and coach them rather than sidle up to "grouse blokes that MM wants to date". The Lokan/Williams/Morrison days should be over. We need to win games with talent!
Two teams who 'force' it are Adelaide, Essendon and Brisbane. They all try to get it to a half back launching pad in the traditional HBF spot on the senna square.Agree with the bold statement. You move the ball as best suited to the situation at the time without being concious of going wide or through the corridor.
By being concious of certain "avenues" to goal, you are actually deprived of taking the "first" or "better" option because you only want to go one-way.
The thing is we are in a situation now where going wide is so engrained in our plan that it has become a mental habit for our players. It is first and second nature to look wide for the easy leads from back-half in line with the gameplan. The fact that Corrie was the one I noticed last Friday opting to kick into the centre rather than wide might reflect something about his newness to the club.