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cos jeez we didn't deserve them.
Perhaps someone is clearer on this than me: was Woosha deliberately persisting with a zoned midfield strategy that got us slapped for most of the game, or was our manning-up impossibly poor?
It just seemed far too easy for the Dogs to find an extra man around the ball while his opposite number was 15m away, possibly trying to fill a hole that wasn't even an option when they had two-on-one pushing forward. What made it worse is that they seemed to be just as able to man up on us at the drop of a hat - and far too often our midfielders looked freaked by the lack of options and stood still rather than at least trying to get moving and maybe draw a man from a teammate.
As for our efforts with the ball...well too many players looked like they were standing off the ball waiting for someone else to pick it up for them, and ditto for when a Doggie had the ball and clearly wasn't about to just hand it over. There was a tackle near the city side 50m line in the last quarter where Braun (or Humm?) actually took a good leap at his opponent. He didn't prevent the ball escaping, but seeing the effort in his tackle made me realise just how little effort it seemed the players were putting into chasing.
(And I think what hurt the most was seeing the turnaround in the last 5 minutes to a more aggro, attacking game that eventually got us the draw, and knowing that there was far more sting in our tail than what we had seen since qtr time)
Perhaps someone is clearer on this than me: was Woosha deliberately persisting with a zoned midfield strategy that got us slapped for most of the game, or was our manning-up impossibly poor?
It just seemed far too easy for the Dogs to find an extra man around the ball while his opposite number was 15m away, possibly trying to fill a hole that wasn't even an option when they had two-on-one pushing forward. What made it worse is that they seemed to be just as able to man up on us at the drop of a hat - and far too often our midfielders looked freaked by the lack of options and stood still rather than at least trying to get moving and maybe draw a man from a teammate.
As for our efforts with the ball...well too many players looked like they were standing off the ball waiting for someone else to pick it up for them, and ditto for when a Doggie had the ball and clearly wasn't about to just hand it over. There was a tackle near the city side 50m line in the last quarter where Braun (or Humm?) actually took a good leap at his opponent. He didn't prevent the ball escaping, but seeing the effort in his tackle made me realise just how little effort it seemed the players were putting into chasing.
(And I think what hurt the most was seeing the turnaround in the last 5 minutes to a more aggro, attacking game that eventually got us the draw, and knowing that there was far more sting in our tail than what we had seen since qtr time)

