Review Round 14, 2021 - North Melbourne vs. Brisbane Lions

[jackess]

One thing I like is The Big O going the big smash forward every so often. It breaks the play up, gains meterage and brings back old memories.

The short tap often is ineffective. I wonder what the stats, comparing the big smash against the lay off show.

Hopefully should be a good option this week against weaker rucks. We usually have Linc or Charlie at half forward too running into the centre square

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

You can't do it too predictably because it's relatively easy to set up for and counter. The element of surprise is key.

I some ways it is always a surprise as you cannot guarantee that you will win the hit out.

 

[Tom14]

Thats because they are told to slow the game down a bit & take the pace down to a manageable level at that time. No other reason other than coach's instructions.

I prefer the slow approach to how North did it at times last week (move so fast they weren't set up so any turnover would equal score), and how Port just kicks to the same spot on the corner of the center square which is an open invitation to spoil it back inside 50.

Statistically you are way more likely to concede points from turnover on kick ins than go coast to coast, so playing the percentages caution is probably best except for situations late in the game when you have to score.

 

[dlanod]

Port just kicks to the same spot on the corner of the center square which is an open invitation to spoil it back inside 50.

Boy, that's given me flashbacks...

A decade of a chip kick to a pocket, then a long kick to a ruckman outnumbered two on one for a turnover/spoil back inside 50...

I've made myself nauseous.

 

[Tom14]

Boy, that's given me flashbacks...

A decade of a chip kick to a pocket, then a long kick to a ruckman outnumbered two on one for a turnover/spoil back inside 50...

I've made myself nauseous.

Watching Port do it just makes me mad. I feel like Harris has spoiled every single one of them back to a dangerous spot the last 2 games we've played against them, with maybe only 2-3 goals for Port across the games.

 

[jackess]

Boy, that's given me flashbacks...

A decade of a chip kick to a pocket, then a long kick to a ruckman outnumbered two on one for a turnover/spoil back inside 50...

I've made myself nauseous.

Our kick ins are the only part of our game that hasn't significantly improved under Fagan

 

[dlanod]

Our kick ins are the only part of our game that hasn't significantly improved under Fagan

Wow. I think there might be some massively rose-tinted glasses on there. Our kick-ins were horrific for many years. Now we might be just average, but that's so much better than deplorable.

 

[jackess]

Wow. I think there might be some massively rose-tinted glasses on there. Our kick-ins were horrific for many years. Now we might be just average, but that's so much better than deplorable.

Yeah probably ok defensively but still as bad as ever offensively.

 

[M Malice]

Thats because they are told to slow the game down a bit & take the pace down to a manageable level at that time. No other reason other than coach's instructions.

I can understand that if you're under the pump, but why not gather the ball quickly from a behind in anticipation of a spare player, doesn't mean you have to take it if their is too big a risk there.

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

Wow. I think there might be some massively rose-tinted glasses on there. Our kick-ins were horrific for many years. Now we might be just average, but that's so much better than deplorable.

We need Darryl White back so we could kick it out to him. That opposition teams didn't match him up with a tall at our kick ins showed how little thought goes into footy.

 

[beardancer]

We need Darryl White back so we could kick it out to him. That opposition teams didn't match him up with a tall at our kick ins showed how little thought goes into footy.

Ah Daryl White, My favorite bear.

 

[MacMum]

Our kick ins are the only part of our game that hasn't significantly improved under Fagan

Richy always seems to go to the left of screen where there is usually a mass of players.....wish he'd mix it up a bit and they have some sort of a plan for him to do so.

 

[bungalow_bill]

One thing I like is The Big O going the big smash forward every so often. It breaks the play up, gains meterage and brings back old memories.

The short tap often is ineffective. I wonder what the stats, comparing the big smash against the lay off show.

Clark Keating 2.0

 

[Mighty Lions]

I can understand that if you're under the pump, but why not gather the ball quickly from a behind in anticipation of a spare player, doesn't mean you have to take it if their is too big a risk there.

If they are told to slow the game down, it means Slow The Game Down even if there is an obvious opportunity available at any given time. Its got nothing to do with the risk of the option, its got to do with slowing the game down to a pace that bets suits us at that time.

 

[martinson]

I often wonder whether too much thought goes into these things at times.

 

[davemc_lions]

If they are told to slow the game down, it means Slow The Game Down even if there is an obvious opportunity available at any given time. Its got nothing to do with the risk of the option, its got to do with slowing the game down to a pace that bets suits us at that time.

and tonight they went really really quick a number of times.
Which worked.
That Rich kick near the end of the quarter Zorko took who gave to Link for a goal was fantastic.

 

[cotter101]

Robertson is going to a be a player. Personally I thought that was his best game and it came against a very good player in Selwood and an experienced team in Geelong.