Is the JLT now a reliable guide to round 1 results?

[StillAtLarge]

With the pre season compressed into 2 games and the need for teams to hit the ground running with somewhat limited competitive preparation is the jlt now a reliable indicator of early season form? Aside from Adelaide's meek surrender to the Hawks and West Coast's stunning capitulation up north none of the other results were overly surprising. Thoughts?

 

[CrowInFiji]

JLT never has been or ever will be a results focussed experience. It is to help with assessing fitness, running patterns, conditioning, matchday simulations and gameplan warm ups, giving young kids a bit of a testing run to see whether they line up rd 1 or not etc. Noone cares whether the team wins or loses, you look at your team and look at what looks okay and what doesn't.

Too many on this forum think it's about results.

 

[ManOfClay]

Bulldogs were woeful in the JLT, over handballing. Gameplan changed in round one.


217 kicks vs 157 handballs in the win against Sydney round one.


In the JLT:

198 kicks v 217 handballs in loss to Gold Coast.


181 kicks v 189 handballs in loss to St Kilda

 

[Upgrayedd]

Absolutely not.

We played one game correctly, against Richmond, Who also realised we were playing pretty much close to match toughness and decided to match us

As someone else said, Mostly Trialing players in different positions, rotations, running patterns are the first and final thing for JLT, watch the games and you will realise that 18 teams are not fussed about winning over trialing a few things and just gaining fitness

 

[JackFlash]

I don't think we will have a reliable guide to anything until at least round 6 or 7....as usual!

 

[estibador]

We looked terrible and got flogged in both our JLT games.

Last year we looked great in the JLT then got flogged in R1.

 

[catpremier 07]

For some teams it was and for others it wasn't.

 

[Sprout]

It can be, but there's no way of telling when it will be. There were danger signs for the likes of us and North which carried through to the season proper.

 

[Scotland]

More to the point is the 'extended pre-season' thing bullshit?

West Coast and Melbourne were flat as pancakes. Brisbane and Port were up and about having not featured in September and having the full pre-season. Ditto Freo.

But Hawthorn were good, and Collingwood and Richmond weren't miles off it. GWS were clinical and Geelong were pretty good. Gold Coast lost but were better than expected. By the same token North, Essendon, Adelaide, St Kilda had the full pre-season and hardly set the world on fire.

 

[Supercoach Bargain]

No. Once players were semi-professional and needed to get fit for the next season.
Now they never come out of condition. A preseason is not necessary, as teams experiment with tactics and personnel so as not to risk injury to key players before the season proper.

 

[Vintage]

We looked terrible and got flogged in both our JLT games.

Last year we looked great in the JLT then got flogged in R1.

So it is a reliable guide - just an inverse relationship?





Or it’s not at all useful.