- Mar 23, 2007
- 34,930
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- AFL Club
- Hawthorn
- Other Teams
- Man U, Canucks and 49ers
Hard to quantify what or who is to 'blame' for our poor performances. No doubt we don't have the cattle. Maybe the cattle we have doesn't suit our game plan. But how much is the actual game plan at fault or at least hindering our progress?
More than a lot of other sides, when we kick out from FB, we seem to be forced to use a shorter kick to a player still inside 50 and often not that far from the kicker. Other teams appear to have a string of options and so more often that not, at worst, a kick out at FB results in a stoppage on the wing.
When we get the ball from defensive fifty and find someone in or around the middle of the ground, often, rather than moving on quickly, we appear to hold the ball up, enabling the opposition to flood back and block the ground up. Not sure if this is part of our game plan (e.g. slowing things down to find a safe option to kick it to), whether it is because our forwards have over committed defensively and we have nothing to kick to until people flood back, whether the players don't have the confidence to take the game on, etc.
Whatever, it is not a great look, not effective and means our inside fifties are highly ineffective, resulting in our ongoing low scoring.
Do people have similar concerns or are seeing something else?
(apologies to the perennially offended who won't like the questioning or criticism of an element of our great Club)
More than a lot of other sides, when we kick out from FB, we seem to be forced to use a shorter kick to a player still inside 50 and often not that far from the kicker. Other teams appear to have a string of options and so more often that not, at worst, a kick out at FB results in a stoppage on the wing.
When we get the ball from defensive fifty and find someone in or around the middle of the ground, often, rather than moving on quickly, we appear to hold the ball up, enabling the opposition to flood back and block the ground up. Not sure if this is part of our game plan (e.g. slowing things down to find a safe option to kick it to), whether it is because our forwards have over committed defensively and we have nothing to kick to until people flood back, whether the players don't have the confidence to take the game on, etc.
Whatever, it is not a great look, not effective and means our inside fifties are highly ineffective, resulting in our ongoing low scoring.
Do people have similar concerns or are seeing something else?
(apologies to the perennially offended who won't like the questioning or criticism of an element of our great Club)