Do you know your team's game plan? Do you want to change it? What works/what doesn't? Do you have the players to make it work?
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Do you know your team's game plan? Do you want to change it? What works/what doesn't? Do you have the players to make it work?
Tim Kelly in the midfield will give Simmo/the Eagles another gear in the midfield, need the unheralded such as Barrass & Duggan to step up as Bunga Hurn cant last forever.
The game plan is fine, not the chaos plan favoured by the Tiges & Pies, it will continue to evolve.
Nope. Think we have the right coach with the right gameplan. The players just needed to believe they were good enough which they did in the back half of the season. We also need to show up against the lesser teams. Losing to Carlton, Gold Coast, North, St Kilda and Fremantle won't cut it next year.
Bring that belief and we could be anything in 2020.
Eagles play a very measured game, using their high marking balls to advantage. They try to cut through the opposition defences/zones to get as close to the F50 as possible before kicking it long to their powerful tall forwards that, at the very least, bring it to ground. McGovern plays an intercept game that relies on the opposition midfielders kicking it high and long into their forward line so he has enough time to ghost over and intercept.
My question to you then is - in the games you were picked apart this year (Hawthorn springs to mind), did you have a Plan B? What happens when your taels can not mark reliably (like in wet weather games or when matched up against tall opposition?).
I think next year your midfield will be scary with the addition of Kelly and (fingers crossed) NicNat but it is a high skills game plan you utilise and only takes one poor kick/decision to come undone...
Eagles play a very measured game, using their high marking balls to advantage. They try to cut through the opposition defences/zones to get as close to the F50 as possible before kicking it long to their powerful tall forwards that, at the very least, bring it to ground. McGovern plays an intercept game that relies on the opposition midfielders kicking it high and long into their forward line so he has enough time to ghost over and intercept.
My question to you then is - in the games you were picked apart this year (Hawthorn springs to mind), did you have a Plan B? What happens when your taels can not mark reliably (like in wet weather games or when matched up against tall opposition?).
I think next year your midfield will be scary with the addition of Kelly and (fingers crossed) NicNat but it is a high skills game plan you utilise and only takes one poor kick/decision to come undone...
We fell at the final hurdle, both Brisbane & the Hawks were too good, picked apart our game is an easy way to describe comprehensive losses.
When we are beaten, we look off ... that applied to the Hawks in the 3peat & its that style of game that best suits our list.
Plan B tends to be going small up forward, Cripps, Ryan, Rioli, Cameron, Petruccelle - Willies gone & will be missed, but Ryan, Cameron & Petruccelle have only 50 games between them, so its been a work in progress over the past 2 years. The extra tall, potentially Oscar Allen or Jake Waterman are also young & inexperienced. Vardy played the role in 2018 but was rarely available in 2019.
Its work in progress is the best I can do.
Sydney board.
When Simpson took over west coast he also had to transition the list to improve the skill. There were some horrendous games in the first half of 2014 as the team adapted, but things clicked in the second half. Eagles missed the 8 with 11 wins - 11 losses.I can't wait to see what our gameplan will look like under Brett Ratten.
It will be interesting to see how all the clubs with new coaches go, Freo especially since they have had a defensive game plan for so long and a coach (a good one) who emphasized effort over skill.
Do you know your team's game plan? Do you want to change it? What works/what doesn't? Do you have the players to make it work?
I don’t think we really have one.
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I can't wait to see what our gameplan will look like under Brett Ratten.
It will be interesting to see how all the clubs with new coaches go, Freo especially since they have had a defensive game plan for so long and a coach (a good one) who emphasized effort over skill.
West Coast definitely has one. They are one of the teams that the coach has actually created a game plan to suit their list rather than just copying a game plan from one of the more successful teams which frequently happens.
So you think it was all in the players heads which was why they lost those games? The players became complacent perhaps? WB smashed us earlier in the year when they cut out our outside run. Your midfield suits your game plan perfectly with the high pressure tackling and your rebound run is some of the best in the league but you seem to lack the players to finish it all off at times? Is it your forward line structure that needs tweaking or the forwards themselves?
They just need time together. Naughton's first year forward and spent his preseason training as a defender. Schache's second year with us, Bailey Dale missed some time with injury, McLean had been used as a midfielder. Dickson was the only player I'd call mature. Lloyd's obviously mature but it was his first year with us.