Clearances from the backline

[catatonic]

How difficult is it to devise a method of clearing the ball from the backline? Maybe if our board came up with a few ideas, the Geelong coaching panel would follow suit and work out a plan. It would be one more than they've got now. So we were two goals up - playing defensive and short from the back was never going to get us a win. If we were ten goals ahead maybe it would work, but two goals up? I compare it to one-day cricket when your team has a small total to defend. Defensive play will not bring a win. Not only does it confine us to the back half, but it puts added pressure on the team to produce precise, low percentage footy at a time when physically the players are least capable of achieving it. We have to attack and get the ball into the forward line, kicking long to a leading player or to a nest of our players, where at least the odds would be on our side. Even the old huddle was better than that crap we try at the moment.

 

[Sammy D]

It helps when you can hit your last option guy at kick-outs on the chest instead of kicking it 5 metres over his head and out of bounds too....
PATHETIC

 

[GeeCat]

Shocking kick-in, but why did the Sydney player end up with the ball? Enright kicked it over Rahilly's head, but not on the full. It bounced a couple of times before it rolled over the boundary yet the Sydney player ends up with the free kick

 

[JUBJUB]

Originally posted by GeeCat
Shocking kick-in, but why did the Sydney player end up with the ball? Enright kicked it over Rahilly's head, but not on the full. It bounced a couple of times before it rolled over the boundary yet the Sydney player ends up with the free kick

Because nobody touched the ball before it went out.

 

[Sammy D]

Originally posted by JUBJUB
Because nobody touched the ball before it went out.

Yeah its a rule, but its not often needed because teams arent often that poor

 

[GeeCat]

We needed to play long and direct footy in that last quarter, yet instead we withered and played short, cheap, possession footy; and we all know what happens then.

 

[you_idiot]

Originally posted by GeeCat
We needed to play long and direct footy in that last quarter, yet instead we withered and played short, cheap, possession footy; and we all know what happens then.

Amen! The best way to protect a lead is to add to it, and play in the same way in the final quarter as you did for the first three. Playing keepaway isn't going to cut the mustard.

Just keep going inside 50 and keep trying to kick goals when you're ahead, for chrissakes.

 

[GeeCat]

Originally posted by you_idiot
Amen! The best way to protect a lead is to add to it, and play in the same way in the final quarter as you did for the first three. Playing keepaway isn't going to cut the mustard.

Just keep going inside 50 and keep trying to kick goals when you're ahead, for chrissakes.

It's beginning to become a trait down at the club. When the opposition puts on 2-3 goals in a row and heads into some sort of roll, the players panic, forget the game plan, forget their style of play that they have been taught to play to, and slump into this awful defensive style of play. We need to work on this, among other things, to prevent this 'panic slump' from occuring again.