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Port has new game plan: Williams
Alan Shiell
afl.com.au
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!
Alan Shiell
afl.com.au
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!

