How important is intimidation in a game of footy?

[QT]

How important really is it??

Essendon i think proved that if the opposition is intimidated by you, ya half way there to winning the footy match....

What do you's think?

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[Shinboners]

Pointless intimidation is useless. Controlled intimidation can help you win a game.

I always think it's a bad sign when a team comes out and plays the man instead of the ball. It's like a desperation tactic, hoping to cause enough physical damage so that the skills of the opposition become less effective. However, this is only used against very good sides, and very good sides will almost always have their own enforcer and their players are good enough to weather the initial storm.

The best physical intimidation is done by sides throughout the match. No matter how great the presence of players like Worsfold, Archer, and Wallis are, they would not have been effective without the 1 percenters executed by their teammates. For every Worsfold bump, you could count on a McKenna shepherd. For every Archer crunch, there would be Carey splitting a pack. Every time Wallis gets into the face of an opposition player, you'll see a Johnson making sure an opponent doesn't get an easy kick.

I have seen teams try to match the best Eagles, North and Essendon sides with physical intimidation, but in the end, class wins. And class sides always put physical pressure on their opponents for the entire match, not just the first five minutes.

 

[WCE2000]

intimidation is very important, but not physical intimidation.

If you can show your more skillful than the other side, show that your fitter, show your more tough, show your quicker, etc,. than that will intimidate the other side.

If you go out there and try and deck the other guys with cheap shots, that won't intimidate anybody. That'll just want them to beat the crap out of you (on the scoreboard) even more.

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[Asgardian]

Intimidation is a vital ingredient, but that intimidation needs to be focussed, and non-physical, as soon as contact sport becomes physical, intimidation has gone out the window.

Look at me QT, do you think I'd intimidate anyone?

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Chris

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[joshhem]

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[Mudholian]

In any competitive environment intimidation is the main factor in determining who wins.

Mud

 

[magpie_joffa]

Get a life you netball ball wearing skirts of course intimidation is important to our game nothin wrong with physical intimidation either,i got an idea for you pussy's go and bloody watch basketball!!!

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