What exactly is our game plan?
What does our structure lack?
This isn’t a can Beveridge coach thread it’s a thread to discuss what our actual game plan and structure is, and what needs to change in terms of game plan and structure for us to improve and move forward.
For me our game plan seems to be based on a number of areas that just are not working.
1. Relying on midfield dominance, backing in our midfield to dominate time in possession and clearances. Issue with this is that we lack breaking even in the ruck and our midfield has gotten into bad habits from dominating the midfield last year. They start in attacking positions often without a defensive sweeper which means we rarely get multiple stoppages if the opposition get the ball first we cannot close them down. We’ve become a little bit of down hill skiers
2. Transition
We rely on run and carry through handball chains, to transition the ball, often through inviting pressure or handballing backward. We often give up field position and gift the opposition momentum through our backwards handballs when under pressure. We either lack decent kickers or we lack confidence in kicking the ball and through reliance on handball chains it often leads to being out of position if we turn the ball over or having our forwards out of position due to over handballing. Also the current weather conditions we have been playing in are not conducive to this style.
3. defending
We rely on a zone defence to keep the ball in our half of the ground mainly because we have a very attacking backline that is good at intercepting the ball and then transitioning it forward. The problem is we need pressure on the opposition to cause them to rush their kicks, which allows higher kicks or undirected kicks where we can zone off to intercept or come third man up to spoil. We lack defenders that can defend 1v1. We have also struggled in zoning defence also because we have broken down up at half forward and in our forward structure meaning we turn the ball over when out of position and our forward line struggle to push any pressure on.
What does our structure lack?
This isn’t a can Beveridge coach thread it’s a thread to discuss what our actual game plan and structure is, and what needs to change in terms of game plan and structure for us to improve and move forward.
For me our game plan seems to be based on a number of areas that just are not working.
1. Relying on midfield dominance, backing in our midfield to dominate time in possession and clearances. Issue with this is that we lack breaking even in the ruck and our midfield has gotten into bad habits from dominating the midfield last year. They start in attacking positions often without a defensive sweeper which means we rarely get multiple stoppages if the opposition get the ball first we cannot close them down. We’ve become a little bit of down hill skiers
2. Transition
We rely on run and carry through handball chains, to transition the ball, often through inviting pressure or handballing backward. We often give up field position and gift the opposition momentum through our backwards handballs when under pressure. We either lack decent kickers or we lack confidence in kicking the ball and through reliance on handball chains it often leads to being out of position if we turn the ball over or having our forwards out of position due to over handballing. Also the current weather conditions we have been playing in are not conducive to this style.
3. defending
We rely on a zone defence to keep the ball in our half of the ground mainly because we have a very attacking backline that is good at intercepting the ball and then transitioning it forward. The problem is we need pressure on the opposition to cause them to rush their kicks, which allows higher kicks or undirected kicks where we can zone off to intercept or come third man up to spoil. We lack defenders that can defend 1v1. We have also struggled in zoning defence also because we have broken down up at half forward and in our forward structure meaning we turn the ball over when out of position and our forward line struggle to push any pressure on.
