JIHAD Stadium

[Tempy Tiger]

Well folks, here we go again at this #$%^ing venue. I think/hope that St Kilda is travelling badly enough that we might be able to break our hoodoo at this ground. I don't know why, but as soon as our players step off the 86 tram at Docklands they revert to high functioning chimps. Watching them try to move the ball from defence at this ground is like watching Billy Brownless try to solve a rubiks cube.

The issue, IMHO, is the smaller dimensions of the ground, which makes the full press even more effective. It's going to be interesting to watch how we go about it this time. Keeping our structure is going to be a major part of it, we need to always have a couple of forwards ahead of the ball so the opposition can't overcommit to the zone. Having Bate in the team will help with this.

Thoughts?

 

[Flyswatter]

Bailey was going on about being more brave and bold this week, I'd interpret that as moving the ball continuously and faster to get through the press on a smaller ground. If they don't, the Saints will man up and options dry out quickly. And there is no Jamar out there for the default long bomb target near the boundary.
But a fast flowing game will lead to turnovers if the players aren't all on the same page. So either they are all brave and bold with ball movement or it all falls apart.

 

[eskimo]

That's pretty much our problem every week Flyswatter. With our game-plan (we do have one), it's got to be all in! If there are just a couple of lazy people out there we will fall apart very quickly. Fortunately for us the Saints have been abhorent this year, which gives us a good chance.

We wouldn't have played 2 games in a row at Etihad for a while, so we may have an advantage over what we usually do there given we played there last week. We might be kind of used to it. Hopefully we spent the week at training in smaller confines.

Shut down Roo and Goddard and the game is already half ours.

 

[Supermercado]

Oh yes, it's got an Arabic name so you changed it to Jihad. I see what you did there

 

[syl]

Oh yes, it's got an Arabic name so you changed it to Jihad. I see what you did there

Embarrassing eh? I had a go at them for this shit in another thread and got strung up for it, dull w***ers...