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The cliche's surrounding football are myriad, and they never get more of an airing than when a team is doing poorly.
It is often said that foortball is a simple game, it is. But it is also (in the AFL) a much mroe complex game than most people on this forum have played. Whether at Junior level, or at seniour level some time ago, it is likely in my view that the game as it is played today has probably evolved somewhat from the game that the older amongst us once played, or that the younger amongst us might be playing at junior level.
That is not to say that we don't and shouldn't question the performances or the coaching, but we must avoid viewing everything through the prism of our own football experience. A few examples:
When I was a playing we had a few core maxims, and msot of us probably got some version of these
- play in front.
- Keep your feet
- keep the ball in front of you
- no u turns
- don't kick across the face of goal
Solid rules, and I know that it is when the players seem to forget these, that i get most frustrated, it looks lazy to go to ground, to looks sloppy to overun the ball. They stand out as obvious errors and we look rubbish.
Those core maxims though, whilst perhaps still useful do not take account of the pace the games is played at, the way space is used, the way defences use a zone. If all we are dong is lamenting the lions because they aren't doing things we were taught to do in the Mungungo under 15's, we are actually just saying we want to watch the Mungs.
We become that fan, who just roars "kick the bloody thing" and then seems surprised that the roosted ball ends in the arms of the opposition.
So bearing that in mind, my question is, what influence has your own formative experience of football had on your viewing of it, and how might that lead you into critical error?
It is often said that foortball is a simple game, it is. But it is also (in the AFL) a much mroe complex game than most people on this forum have played. Whether at Junior level, or at seniour level some time ago, it is likely in my view that the game as it is played today has probably evolved somewhat from the game that the older amongst us once played, or that the younger amongst us might be playing at junior level.
That is not to say that we don't and shouldn't question the performances or the coaching, but we must avoid viewing everything through the prism of our own football experience. A few examples:
When I was a playing we had a few core maxims, and msot of us probably got some version of these
- play in front.
- Keep your feet
- keep the ball in front of you
- no u turns
- don't kick across the face of goal
Solid rules, and I know that it is when the players seem to forget these, that i get most frustrated, it looks lazy to go to ground, to looks sloppy to overun the ball. They stand out as obvious errors and we look rubbish.
Those core maxims though, whilst perhaps still useful do not take account of the pace the games is played at, the way space is used, the way defences use a zone. If all we are dong is lamenting the lions because they aren't doing things we were taught to do in the Mungungo under 15's, we are actually just saying we want to watch the Mungs.
We become that fan, who just roars "kick the bloody thing" and then seems surprised that the roosted ball ends in the arms of the opposition.
So bearing that in mind, my question is, what influence has your own formative experience of football had on your viewing of it, and how might that lead you into critical error?
