Buddy's Box

[hawker92]

I've heard this term mentioned a couple of times throughout this forum, and I have no idea what it is/was.

Can someone enlighten?

 

[Alex_au]

A four man forward line in a square formation, played mainly in 2007.

Buddy, Roughead, Boyle and I think Dixon were the key forwards.

 

[macdaddio]

Good times, how i miss those days........

 

[phillm1]

A four man forward line in a square formation, played mainly in 2007.

Buddy, Roughead, Boyle and I think Dixon were the key forwards.

Now theres no one in the forward 50 let alone a box !

Why cant clarko see this !!

 

[Flamin Joe]

It's an outdated idea where the thought process was that if you bombed it in long to a tall forward setup enough times, you could kick a winning score.

Nowadays such thinking is considered backwards and old school. The better approach is to have your forwards roaming around anywhere but the forward 50 so to confuse the defenders. It's called "Clarko's Desert".

 

[The BIG X]

It's an outdated idea where the thought process was that if you bombed it in long to a tall forward setup enough times, you could kick a winning score.

Nowadays such thinking is considered backwards and old school. The better approach is to have your forwards roaming around anywhere but the forward 50 so to confuse the defenders. It's called "Clarko's Desert".[/quote]


absolute ripper

 

[grizzlym]

It's an outdated idea where the thought process was that if you bombed it in long to a tall forward setup enough times, you could kick a winning score.

Nowadays such thinking is considered backwards and old school. The better approach is to have your forwards roaming around anywhere but the forward 50 so to confuse the defenders. It's called "Clarko's Desert".

Roughy or Buddy?

 

[hawker92]

Ok cheers guys. I agree with the comments about clarkson... He needs to get an effective forward structure worked out. I'd like to see buddy stationed in the square, and leading out. There's hardly a defender that can spoil buddy running fullspeed with arms outstretched.

 

[Prudster]

Roughy or Buddy?

The skull is Dowler, and the miscellaneous bones are Thorp

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

As others said four points. The key issue was that the four stood far enough apart that no defender could get from his direct opponent to another contest.

Imagine a 'standard' 6 man forward-line, and then take out the FF and CHF. That's pretty much it.

The half-forwards would block for their leading teammates, and lots of inter-woven leads were run (usually involving Williams) getting them uncontested marks on the lead.

Players would swap around, but the basic premise was to force opponents into 1-on-1 contests deep in our forward line.

It fell down because it required a huge running workload from our midfielders, which couldn't be maintained for the whole game - and turnovers resulted in fast-break rebounds.

 

[IBleedBrownNGold]

Roughy or Buddy?

filler

 

[grizzlym]

Tis okay, just a rather grim metaphor of our two forwards ossifying somewhere up forward.

 

[Beandip]

So whose responsibility is it? I know Clarkson is senior coach, but Leon Cameron is the forward coach... Obviously Clarkson has final say, but Cameron should be the one tweaking and refining.

Maybe we could have Pagan's Paddock for Buddy

 

[The Kipster]

absolute ripper

x 2 classic...love it, Clarko's Desert!

This is what happened to our stay at home forward-line...RIP

 

[PottSie2]

So whose responsibility is it? I know Clarkson is senior coach, but Leon Cameron is the forward coach... Obviously Clarkson has final say, but Cameron should be the one tweaking and refining.

Maybe we could have Pagan's Paddock for Buddy

let me take this opportunity to apologise to Mr. Barker. He was the fall guy last year.

 

[PottSie2]

It fell down because it required a huge running workload from our midfielders, which couldn't be maintained for the whole game - and turnovers resulted in fast-break rebounds.

Sounds like our current gameplan. Certainly more coast to coast goals this year than in 2007/2008.

 

[Henry Jr]

Roughy or Buddy?

Its not Buddy.

The bones show a right foot

 

[dipper86]

let me take this opportunity to apologise to Mr. Barker. He was the fall guy last year.

Yep, i was saying that all last year when people were having a red hot go at Barker....he wasn't the issue........Clarksons gameplan was!!!!

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

Just trying to help the OP.

https://secure.dodo.com.au/BuddyBox2/

 

[hawker92]

Just trying to help the OP.

https://secure.dodo.com.au/BuddyBox2/

Haha, very good, I like it!

You really were thinking outside of the 'box'....

 

[SNAITHY]

How dissappointing.........thought this was a thread about his missus......

 

[go hawks!!!]

How dissappointing.........thought this was a thread about his missus......

Snaithy, welcome back mate