- Sep 22, 2008
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- AFL Club
- Western Bulldogs
- Banned
- #176
One other adjustment I’d like to see in our positioning is on offence to hold position a little bit more than we do. I understand in the modern game your whole side follows the ball from end to end but I think we need to make more of a conscious effort for our deepest forward line to not get sucked too high up the field - whether that’s even just a few players that are happy to sit back a bit and hold that ground it’d make a big difference.
It’s fine for most teams who move the ball a bit slower than us, through short kicks etc as the ball moves up the ground and players take marks your forward line has time to get back in position and offer the next option in the chain.
But with the way we move the ball by hand quickly we’re constantly too quick for our own good and it ends up with us having nothing to kick to and either overpossessing the footy by hand and turning it over or kicking to no one and having it come back over our head.
Especially because we don’t have quick wings or forward flanks to get them over the back. Hunter, Scott, Williams, McComb, West even Cody & McNeil etc all not super quick - would be different if we had the likes of JJ, VDM, Bedendo, Arty etc in the future as our wings/high half forwards as then after our chain of handballs out of defence comes to an end you have those guys getting back quickly and can open up the defence going inside 50 to catch them out the back
It’s fine for most teams who move the ball a bit slower than us, through short kicks etc as the ball moves up the ground and players take marks your forward line has time to get back in position and offer the next option in the chain.
But with the way we move the ball by hand quickly we’re constantly too quick for our own good and it ends up with us having nothing to kick to and either overpossessing the footy by hand and turning it over or kicking to no one and having it come back over our head.
Especially because we don’t have quick wings or forward flanks to get them over the back. Hunter, Scott, Williams, McComb, West even Cody & McNeil etc all not super quick - would be different if we had the likes of JJ, VDM, Bedendo, Arty etc in the future as our wings/high half forwards as then after our chain of handballs out of defence comes to an end you have those guys getting back quickly and can open up the defence going inside 50 to catch them out the back