Instinctive and Predictable

[G3TWOTYAD3S3RV]

Ive read from Hawthorn supporters that he has been matched up against Walker in the past, and did very well.

I wouldn’t have thought to play him as a key defender but if it works then yeah.


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[tribey]

Why? Remember Chris Judd's comments last year that 11 changes is too many and the players wont gell and we wouldn't make the finals?

That didn't look too clever when we were 11-4 despite limping to victory in the last 2 weeks of those 15 games against a couple of cellar dwellers, but when the heat came on against some of the big boys, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS as well as the middle class sides we capitulated and we weren't jelling.

We have made another 11 changes this year. 2 of them replacing Barry and Thomas who were only around for 12 months.

So since we lost that bloody final to WCE in 2017, we have kept 26 players and moved on 19. Those 19 have been replaced by 11 in 2018, Barry and Thomas only lasted a year, and another 11 in 2019 which takes our squad from 45 to 46 as we have gone from one Cat B rookie Irra, to two, Pudney and Fredrick.

I expect 6 of the new 11 to play a lot in the first 6 or 7 weeks if they don't get injured - Lycett, Burton, Mayes, Rozee, Butters and Duursma. So that means there will be a fair bit of new learnings around those players in those 6 to 7 weeks.

I ******* hope Judd is wrong in 2019, and that some of those 9 left of the 2018 new 11, ie Watts, Rockliff, Motlop in particular but even Farrell, Patmore, Garner if they get games and even Trengove have better years and dont need more learnings.

Plus Montgomery, Schofield and Brogan coming in will probably take a bit of time to find their groove in the coaching box, game day mix.

List overhauls, injuries to key players (both medium and long term), the searing spotlight of that incident and the added shakeup of having to adjust to a completely new ground didn’t seem to hurt West Coast none, despite universal predictions of their demise.

The root of our constant failings is perhaps too obvious for the national media and a doyen like Judd to spotlight at this point.

 

[elpirate]

Ken Hinkley describing how our game style should be.

Music to my ears!

I am firmly of the belief that a lot of our skill and decision making errors over the years have come from trying to play game styles that were too clever by half.

The best sides are instinctive and
predictable. They don't beat you will inexpected tactics (most of the time). They do it because they are so well drilled at what they do that it is relentlessly effective.

They make good decisions because the decision is already made well before they get the pill.

They hit targets because they know where the target is going to be and the target has space because he (and his team mates) know where and when he needs to make space.

They kick well for goal because they create opportunities in good positions.

I can't wait for this season to start to see how much of this talk becomes action!

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He's said this before.

 

[Tredz]

Watching back over a couple of games it became quite evident that most successful teams tend to be able to kick and handball to a where they know a target is going to be, we on the other hand seem to have a tendency to kick and handball to where our targets currently are. By the time the ball gets to the target they are often already under pressure. This was really evident during Saturdays JLT1 Game against Adelaide.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

List overhauls, injuries to key players (both medium and long term), the searing spotlight of that incident and the added shakeup of having to adjust to a completely new ground didn’t seem to hurt West Coast none, despite universal predictions of their demise.

The root of our constant failings is perhaps too obvious for the national media and a doyen like Judd to spotlight at this point.

Never bought the WCE demise BS. Didn't expect them to be top 4 let alone win it, but they lost 3 players of note, Priddis and 1 year wonders Mitchell and Petrie. Nick Nat was coming back and Petrie was a smart double back up for Nick Nat missing as they traded for Vardy 6 weeks before they rookied Petrie. Lycett only played 1 or 2 games in 2017. Mitchell didnt have a massive impact on how they played in 1 season. Priddis was a big loss.

The new stadium wasn't going to be much of an issue, 10m shorter and 8 metres fatter. They still had their biggest advantage - the oppo had to fly 3,4, or 5 hours depending where they were from, and their 2nd best advantage - home town umpiring decisions from crowd pressure. They were adding 15k~18k extra rabid fans.

 

[tribey]

Never bought the WCE demise BS. Didn't expect them to be top 4 let alone win it, but they lost 3 players of note, Priddis and 1 year wonders Mitchell and Petrie. Nick Nat was coming back and Petrie was a smart double back up for Nick Nat missing as they traded for Vardy 6 weeks before they rookied Petrie. Lycett only played 1 or 2 games in 2017. Mitchell didnt have a massive impact on how they played in 1 season. Priddis was a big loss.

The new stadium wasn't going to be much of an issue, 10m shorter and 8 metres fatter. They still had their biggest advantage - the oppo had to fly 3,4, or 5 hours depending where they were from, and their 2nd best advantage - home town umpiring decisions from crowd pressure. They were adding 15k~18k extra rabid fans.

Don’t forget their AO final defensive hero, Eric McKenzie. Who broke our hearts and played one more game ever, because obviously.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Don’t forget their AO final defensive hero, Eric McKenzie. Who broke our hearts and played one more game ever, because obviously.

Who should've absolutely 100% been called for deliberate OOB for that bit of 'heroics', while we're on the subject.

If you rugby dive a rushed behind, of course they'd call it deliberate rushed behind. If you rugby dive over the boundary line, of course they'd call it deliberate OOB. But if you rugby dive into the behind post, it's somehow neither? That's a bigger injustice than the Shuey free kick if we're being honest.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Port ranked 15th, 14th and 13th over the past three seasons for average handballs and never racked up more than 161.1 per game in that period.

It was more of the same in the JLT Community Series, yet the Power super-charged their handball count to 195 at the MCG on Saturday and gained 406 metres in the process.

Both those figures ranked second for the round.

Hinkley's men had 72 more handballs and 93 extra uncontested possessions than the Dees, and played on from marks an AFL-most 54 per cent of the time, excluding in the forward 50.

Port Adelaide last had that many handballs in round 21, 2017 (199), while you have to go back further to find a Power side that matched the uncontested possession buffer (round 19, 2016) and mark, play on percentage (round 19, 2015).

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-03-26/the-stats-files-how-handballhappy-port-dismantled-the-demons