Kicking efficiency

[Skade]

At this stage of the game our kicking efficiency is only 50%, really needs to improve if we want to win it.

Fraser and Wood 5 possessions between them at half time.

 

[donnie5]

The worst thing about it is all of our mistakes are in the back half and have proven crucial. I think they have scored 2 goals from mistakes from kick outs. Heath Shaw has played okay but he is trying to get too many one twos and on a few occasions it did cost us. If we are to win this game we need to improve coming off half back effectively.

 

[Pedro]

I think the Dogs efficiency has been inflated by the high number of kick to kick type stats they are accumulating in the back half. When they are forced to attack long, they are turning it over just as we are.

 

[donnie5]

another thing ive noticed when we are not playing so well is that when we tend to have more handballs then kicks we are less damaging.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Bleh... Why do Collingwood have to do this EVERY ****ing year?

 

[MAL FUNCTION]

I've no idea, it's soooo freaking frustrating, we should be used to this and not be at all suprised, yet we still go wide eyed when it happens.

Surely we must be one of league's worst 'set shot' goal kicking team, if not we'd have to come awfully close - mmm maybe Rocca could come in still as nothing will be at all differant !
It's our running snap goals that usually put a score on the board for us, which is good ...but a proper forward would be just icing on the cake.

 

[HFF]

I think the Dogs efficiency has been inflated by the high number of kick to kick type stats they are accumulating in the back half. When they are forced to attack long, they are turning it over just as we are.

Agree with Pedro.

However, we looked all at sea tonight.

Didn't play the style of football we have been in recent weeks. Thought we took the "horses for courses' approach to far in that we basically played into the Dogs' hands trying to counter attack rather than put them on the back foot.

Too much or overuse of the handball, cost us some very cheap goals. We looked reluctant to kick the footy all night and persisted with run and handball. Perhaps this was Mick experimenting or trying to adapt a plan B for the finals series but we look far better and dangerous when we kick the footy ala AAMi stadium where the Crows played a similar brand to the Dogs.

The venue wasn't much help either to the style of footy we like to play. Very small, congested and narrow, suting the fleet-footed Doggies. Thank god it's all at the MCG now.

Also thought our work rate, contested ball winning and stoppage work was extremely poor.

 

[Soul_Pie]

It was something of a bizarre match overall. I have no idea what to make of it, all the trademarks of the way we've played football over the past weeks just seemed to fly out the door. What was with the way we handballed ourselves into trouble all the time, we were almost scared to kick the ball. The last quarter was just weird, it was almost as though at times we weren't even trying to win it outright, just trying to lose by a small amount. It was almost like losing by less than 22 would count as a win in a sense. Also, for a match between two top four sides I felt there was very little intensity and very lacklustre tackling and pressure.

I personally wouldn't read too much into the loss, the game threw up such a strange set of circumstances that I think that even the players were confused as to how to approach it. Next week I think the boys will come out with a clear head and a clear approach, we go out there to play hard and win, simple as that.

 

[Ron]

What about our handball efficiency?

The amount of times we stuffed up a handball was bizarre.

 

[MAL FUNCTION]

It was something of a bizarre match overall. I have no idea what to make of it, all the trademarks of the way we've played football over the past weeks just seemed to fly out the door. What was with the way we handballed ourselves into trouble all the time, we were almost scared to kick the ball. The last quarter was just weird, it was almost as though at times we weren't even trying to win it outright, just trying to lose by a small amount. It was almost like losing by less than 22 would count as a win in a sense. Also, for a match between two top four sides I felt there was very little intensity and very lacklustre tackling and pressure.

As i could'nt watch the game co's of that FOX crap ( which i refuse to get ) .. i could only go by how it was called on 3AW

what you just said expressed exactly how it sounded to me, sound's very spot on.
This is what made me think that this was not us playing today and that as early as the 1st quarter i just thought we were deadmeat here, somethings was'nt right with us. Of course, the usual predicament of a set shot was always concerning to me with any of our games , today just made that concern totally justified ...we really have to do something here , we truelly have no reliable as full forward, our hope lay with our running forwards SHOOTING ON THE RUN !