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How many times have we seen these 3 carve up our team in the last 2 years? Sam Mitchell often gets off the chain and has 35+ disposals against us. Rioli can kick 3 goals in a quarter and still have no-one stand near him as evidenced in the Grand Final. And Gibson was allowed to do as he pleased earlier in the year across half-back. You can understand if one of these 3 players has a blinder for a quarter or maybe even a half, but the trend with the Eagles is that we allow these opponents to continue to dominate for 4 quarters. Its as if Simpson and the players stick their head in the sand and pretend its not happening.
How will our coach plan for them on Friday nights must win game? For me, Simpson has failed to be a good match day coach against the Hawks in the last couple of encounters. Preferably, id like to see a forward tag applied to Gibson if he even looks like trying to be the spare man in defense. Hutchings has had 21 tackles in the last 3 weeks. I dont think we sacrifice much if Hutch is called upon to stand on any +1 that Hawthorn try to free up. Its crucial that we dont let the Hawks setup play as they please across half-back.
Rioli - someone hobble this bloke. But in all seriousness, we need a system where our zone can operate excluding 1 defender. And that defenders role is to wear Rioli like a glove. Stuff reading the play, manning space, or rolling backwards or whatever the hell our web is meant to achieve. We need someone like Sheppard who can keep up with Rioli, to stand on his feet at centre bounces, to knock Rioli off balance around stoppages in their F50m, and to have the speed to chase the bastard down if he tries to run into space up the ground. But its not just sheppard - we need everyone who comes near Rioli to bump into him and make life as tough as possible. He should return to Victoria bruised and battered. Its about time we were the unsociable team on the field.
Mitchell - not the quickest bloke around, but if we ignore him he will have 40+ possesions and be BOG. Is it crazy to suggest that Priddis tag him? They are both slow, Priddis is our best tackler in the team averaging 8.4 per game this year, and he has the fitness to run with Mitchell all over the ground. Sure it will mean that other mids will have to find the ball, but its a gamble that we could try for 1 quarter. Shuey should always be our primary ball winner, and in the absence of Priddis hunting the pack we would need Yeo and perhaps Sheed to pick up the slack. If Priddis is not the answer, then we need someone else running with Mitchell and devoting their attention soley to stopping him.
Post probably comes off as bit of a rant, but fair dinkum im sick of us letting the same Hawthorn players run amok for 4 quarters. On the plus side MacAvaney will still be in Rio so we wont have that closet homo frothing at the mouth every time Cyril is on screen. Nonetheless, i hope to God that we shut him down for once. Just once.
How will our coach plan for them on Friday nights must win game? For me, Simpson has failed to be a good match day coach against the Hawks in the last couple of encounters. Preferably, id like to see a forward tag applied to Gibson if he even looks like trying to be the spare man in defense. Hutchings has had 21 tackles in the last 3 weeks. I dont think we sacrifice much if Hutch is called upon to stand on any +1 that Hawthorn try to free up. Its crucial that we dont let the Hawks setup play as they please across half-back.
Rioli - someone hobble this bloke. But in all seriousness, we need a system where our zone can operate excluding 1 defender. And that defenders role is to wear Rioli like a glove. Stuff reading the play, manning space, or rolling backwards or whatever the hell our web is meant to achieve. We need someone like Sheppard who can keep up with Rioli, to stand on his feet at centre bounces, to knock Rioli off balance around stoppages in their F50m, and to have the speed to chase the bastard down if he tries to run into space up the ground. But its not just sheppard - we need everyone who comes near Rioli to bump into him and make life as tough as possible. He should return to Victoria bruised and battered. Its about time we were the unsociable team on the field.
Mitchell - not the quickest bloke around, but if we ignore him he will have 40+ possesions and be BOG. Is it crazy to suggest that Priddis tag him? They are both slow, Priddis is our best tackler in the team averaging 8.4 per game this year, and he has the fitness to run with Mitchell all over the ground. Sure it will mean that other mids will have to find the ball, but its a gamble that we could try for 1 quarter. Shuey should always be our primary ball winner, and in the absence of Priddis hunting the pack we would need Yeo and perhaps Sheed to pick up the slack. If Priddis is not the answer, then we need someone else running with Mitchell and devoting their attention soley to stopping him.
Post probably comes off as bit of a rant, but fair dinkum im sick of us letting the same Hawthorn players run amok for 4 quarters. On the plus side MacAvaney will still be in Rio so we wont have that closet homo frothing at the mouth every time Cyril is on screen. Nonetheless, i hope to God that we shut him down for once. Just once.
