Outdated game plan

[skipper kelly]

But there is no excuse (other than minimising losses and staying close... which has it own merits) for not playing on and moving it quickly !!!!! and persisting with SWANS stop start chip and hope football! for too long! and too early! they could be fitter and outrun but now likely only in a rocket powered wheelchair

Corps, do you reckon Hawthorn would have won last Saturday if they played with the mentality of playing on and moving it quickly?

 

[Corpuscles]

Corps, do you reckon Hawthorn would have won last Saturday if they played with the mentality of playing on and moving it quickly?

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Put on a pot of tea or a 6 pack or bottle if you prefer and watch tape again!

The moments when Hawks played tempo (except for junk time last 4-5 mins) was minimal

They impressed the crapper out of me how quickly they moved it!!!!!

Watch Cats also.... even under intense pressure ... they played on almost at all costs... when they didn't it was at their peril!

The difference was Hawks controlled the central corridor and pushed Cats forwards wide.

Slightly different but similar plan.... Hawks squared; chiped; handpassed then kicked long!!!

Watch it again!!!

I expect a review post in the next few days

 

[skipper kelly]

Maybe we watched different games or most likely viewed it differently. For most part Hawthorn looked to be holding on by the skins of their teeth. The game blew open in the 3rd and they played the clock down in the last.

When the opportunities arose they moved the ball very quickly, a bit like we do, and much like many of our most important victories.

It certainly didnt seem like the Hawks wanted a shoot out so maybe we have differing interpretations or expectations of what playing on and moving it on means.

 

[disgruntled goat]

I got the impression we tried to play fast-flowing move-it-on-at-all-costs footy in our last 3-4 matches, and while it did work at times, we suffered from very poor skill execution, which I believe is one of the major problems we have to overcome before we're anywhere near as adept as Hawthorn or Geelong at that style.

The way to address that, of course, is to get better with skills and get rid of players who have repeatedly failed to improve skills, over a period of time.

 

[skipper kelly]

Corps. This is an extract from an article on real footy. I dont know this writer or what his credibility is like but it is very close to how I saw it.

As some within the industry have noted, the Hawks appeared to have two or three different games styles — they attacked with quick ball movement when they needed to score, but they also deliberately slowed the tempo when they held the lead in the second half.
At one point, earlier in the match, when Geelong was smashing them out of the middle, the Hawks managed to hang on, like a boxer clinging to his opponent in clinches, until the momentum shifted.

Geelong, if it has different game styles, has barely needed to resort to them in 2008; perhaps it was a victim of its own dominating season. The Cats did not have any apparent change of pace or gear (besides the fact that they slowed up, unintentionally).

The idea that teams require multiple game styles, rather than one basic plan, is not novel — coaching is pushing the competition in that direction anyway. "This is where we're going to," said one senior coach yesterday.

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