couldhavebeen
Premiership Player
I am so angry with our coaches and our poor preseason . The way our players are not moving the ball fast enough .Our team has so many players that still want go 20 metres back from a mark and then kick it sideways thus allowing the opposition to flood back and flood our forward area .
I knew the we were going to be overrun in the last quarter .Its was that obvious that our players were blowing hard 5 minutes into the last quarter and the Saints players were powering home .
To me somebody has to tell Ibbotson that he doesn't need to go back that far from his opponent on the mark .That he must be prepared to dispose of the ball as fast as possible .Every time he took a mark he just takes sooooo long to pass the ball .
Are our coaches blind or don't they realize that the game has changed from stoppages to fast hard running players that destroy static defences with a series of handballs and measured kicks to players in space or if the opposition defenders have left the backdoor open the long kick over their heads into the vacant forward line that fleet footed forwards can run onto .
If I see all our defenders fly for the same ball and not one of them is positioned forward of the pack and one hanging out the back waiting for the crumbs I will scream the house down . The number of times all of our backmen and forwards fly for the same mark is sooo frustrating to watch.
My biggest bug bear at the moment is at stoppages Griffin just knocks the ball down to his feet and then our midfielders have to go in and get pounded by the opposition trying to get the ball out . Teams like Sydney ,Western Bull Dogs ,North Melbourne and Hawthorn have one or 2 midfielders in close the rest of their midfielders stand further out and are ready to pounce on the ball or the opposition midfielders that emerges with the ball .They are not only in attacking positions but defensive positions as well.
I knew the we were going to be overrun in the last quarter .Its was that obvious that our players were blowing hard 5 minutes into the last quarter and the Saints players were powering home .
To me somebody has to tell Ibbotson that he doesn't need to go back that far from his opponent on the mark .That he must be prepared to dispose of the ball as fast as possible .Every time he took a mark he just takes sooooo long to pass the ball .
Are our coaches blind or don't they realize that the game has changed from stoppages to fast hard running players that destroy static defences with a series of handballs and measured kicks to players in space or if the opposition defenders have left the backdoor open the long kick over their heads into the vacant forward line that fleet footed forwards can run onto .
If I see all our defenders fly for the same ball and not one of them is positioned forward of the pack and one hanging out the back waiting for the crumbs I will scream the house down . The number of times all of our backmen and forwards fly for the same mark is sooo frustrating to watch.
My biggest bug bear at the moment is at stoppages Griffin just knocks the ball down to his feet and then our midfielders have to go in and get pounded by the opposition trying to get the ball out . Teams like Sydney ,Western Bull Dogs ,North Melbourne and Hawthorn have one or 2 midfielders in close the rest of their midfielders stand further out and are ready to pounce on the ball or the opposition midfielders that emerges with the ball .They are not only in attacking positions but defensive positions as well.