Port has new game plan: Williams

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Port has new game plan: Williams
Alan Shiell
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1:34:11 PM Fri 21 February, 2003

Port Adelaide is tinkering slightly with its game plan, but coach Mark Williams is not revealing any details.

Williams teased media representatives after the Power’s training session at AAMI Stadium on Friday when he was asked whether there were one or two areas of his team’s game he would like to see in Saturday night’s Wizard Home Loans Cup match against Adelaide.


“We’ve changed a little bit with our game plan,” he said. “We’ve just worked it pretty intensively over the pre-season, so we’d like to see the players take that a little bit better into the game.

“But, apart from that, we’re pretty satisfied with how we play.”

Asked how Port’s style had changed: Williams laughed and said: “You’re kidding, aren’t you. You reckon I’m going to tell you that? You watch and see.

“Every year you go back to the drawing board a little bit, and certainly review and see what others are doing. All game plans are based around who you’ve got in your side and, once you’ve got different people in your side or different people out, you make different plans, and that’s what we’ve done.”

Williams said he and his players had not spent long analysing the new rules for the cup competition.

“Last year we had different rules for the rucks – circles in the middle of the ground and that sort of stuff – and we played all the way through and it didn’t seem to worry us,” he said.

“So I don’t really care. Our players are getting smarter and smarter. They have to adapt to new things. Every week we have a different tactic you have to come up against and have to be able to react to.

“So this is just one of the others and it’s probably another indicator of how smart the players are getting.

“I reckon we’ve spoken for one minute about the rules. Except for the kick-out, the rest of it … whatever happens (happens).”

Asked how keen he was keen to win the pre-season cup for the third successive year, Williams said: “I’d like to win this game and see what happens next week. But we don’t mind staying in the competition, that’s for sure.”

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Cheeky little bugger, isnt he! :D
 

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It's hard to draw judgements from a trial game, especially one as lopsided as the Sturt trial, but it did appear that Tredrea was staying more around the true CHF position rather than leading upfield and acting as the link man between defence and forward. That may be the thinking behind playing taller onballers like Cornes and Cochrane - that leaves them free to be a taller marking target loose around the midfield, keeping Tredders closer to goals. Just a thought.

There also appeared to be a more consistent effort to bring the ball back into the corridor before crossing half forward - as opposed to running thru the HFF and then swinging the ball back towards the hot spot in front of goal.
 

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Originally posted by Eago77
Hopefully Choco's new game plan includes a PLAN B!!!
Bzzzzzzzz. Wrong!

I am looking for the thread where Choco said that this year he would have no favorites, players would have to earn their spot etc etc.
Cannot find it, but no matter, it's that time of the year where sooner or later he will quote it again. :rolleyes:
 

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Originally posted by PAfolwr
Bzzzzzzzz. Wrong!

I am looking for the thread where Choco said that this year he would have no favorites, players would have to earn their spot etc etc.
Cannot find it, but no matter, it's that time of the year where sooner or later he will quote it again. :rolleyes:
I had hope, but alas.:(
 
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