Coach Sam Mitchell on his players staging for free kicks

[OniAu]

Wasn't ginnivan caught with that too? lol
barely a burn.

Since McRae started encouraging staging by calling it 'challenging the tackler' we've seen Tom Mitchell and Pendles start earning the staging reputation too. embarassing stuff. McRae is mostly to blame. Should've stamped it out a long time ago

I dont think you understand the term 'challenging the tackler"

 

[danster168]

I dont think you understand the term 'challenging the tackler"

yeah, it means dropping at the knees, leaning the head back and leaning into the tackle and challenging the tackler to not give a free away. Pathetic by McRae

 

[nineteen eighty]

Good on Sam Mitchell. This is how a coach should address a stager. Unlike McRae who encouraged it. Pathetic McRae.

Going to McRae is like shooting Bambi. Grab the popcorn fellas...incoming!

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Mitchell is a master manipulator. He's said this publicly so when the medianwill question every potential stage and give benefit of the doubt to the hawk player "why would they stage, the coach doesn't endorse it"

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Mitchell is a master manipulator. He's said this publicly so when the medianwill question every potential stage and give benefit of the doubt to the hawk player "why would they stage, the coach doesn't endorse it"

Dude, if it's that obvious to even you - it hardly makes him a master.

 

[Spectore]

Pretty extraordinary comments on footy classified. Cleaning up the quote:

"I say to the players regularly, if you play for them you don't deserve them. It's the same thing with Sicily or Watson. Once you become that then you need to never whinge to an umpire again and you need to just play the right way and you'll get the free kicks you deserve in time"

This was while they were discussing Ginnivan. He's clearly saying Sicily, Ginnivan and now Watson have played for too many free kicks and have a reputation. And they're going to suffer the consequences until they change their behaviour and time passes for their staging to be forgotten.

I love the honesty. But how would you feel being publicly called a stager by your coach?

Playing for free kicks is not the same as staging.

 

[gillon]

Wasn't ginnivan caught with that too? lol
barely a burn.

Since McRae started encouraging staging by calling it 'challenging the tackler' we've seen Tom Mitchell and Pendles start earning the staging reputation too. embarassing stuff. McRae is mostly to blame. Should've stamped it out a long time ago

Daicos was rewarded for it multiple times in a Grand Final. Culture?

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Playing for free kicks is not the same as staging.

Not always - but it usually is.

The lunge forward that Cerra does every single time he's tackled or even near the ball is using staging to play for a Free Kick.

 

[QuietB]

This is a bit awkward then for some Hawthorn fans who think their club is treated unfairly by umpires

Hawthorn is treated unfairly

 

[OniAu]

yeah, it means dropping at the knees, leaning the head back and leaning into the tackle and challenging the tackler to not give a free away. Pathetic by McRae

Have you played any sports ever ?

 

[V23]

Good on him, I agree with everything he said. Get this sh*t out of the game. Don't care if it's Hawthorn players or Carlton players.

 

[danster168]

Have you played any sports ever ?

what are you on about? You support staging?

 

[T2B_]

what are you on about? You support staging?

I hope you also condemned your boy

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-demons/melbournes-clayton-oliver-slammed-for-taking-a-dive-against-west-coast/news-story/1729d723d74f1b70635c2c5be3c616dc

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

I hope you also condemned your boy

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-demons/melbournes-clayton-oliver-slammed-for-taking-a-dive-against-west-coast/news-story/1729d723d74f1b70635c2c5be3c616dc

Melbourne have a few. Spargo and Hunter are others.
Also Kosi at times.

 

[danster168]

I hope you also condemned your boy

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-demons/melbournes-clayton-oliver-slammed-for-taking-a-dive-against-west-coast/news-story/1729d723d74f1b70635c2c5be3c616dc

you had to go back 7 years to find it We have a couple of incidents but our coach never supports it like McRae did with all of this 'challenging the the tackler'/'it's an art' nonsense.

 

[danster168]

Melbourne have a few. Spargo and Hunter are others.
Also Kosi at times.

Agreed. And Goodwin doesn't like it. Unlike mcRae who endorsed it.

 

[Back One Out]

the so-called self proclaimed? Wizard carrying on when his side was 30 odd points behind as if he’d just won a Final in the dying seconds..

False. Watson has never "self proclaimed" himself as the Wizard. This is entirely the media's doing. It was started by Cal Twomey and Channel 7's commentators such as BT have enthusiastically run with it. You remind me of the clowns who hung shιt on Cyril because Bruce McAvaney said he was "delicious".

As for the the goal celebration... yeah... let's all pile onto an 18 year old kid for kicking a great goal in his 3rd game that put Hawthorn within 20 points of Geelong at the 12 minute mark of the last quarter when the Hawks seemed to have all the momentum, having kicked 2.4 to 0.0 and looking like a sneaky chance of making it a close finish.

He should've just hung his head in shame instead of trying to fire up his teammates with 20 minutes left in the game.

You tosser.

 

[smeltitdeltit]

False. Watson has never "self proclaimed" himself as the Wizard. This is entirely the media's doing. It was started by Cal Twomey and Channel 7's commentators such as BT have enthusiastically run with it. You remind me of the clowns who hung shιt on Cyril because Bruce McAvaney said he was "delicious".

As for the the goal celebration... yeah... let's all pile onto an 18 year old kid for kicking a great goal in his 3rd game that put Hawthorn within 20 points of Geelong at the 12 minute mark of the last quarter when the Hawks seemed to have all the momentum, having kicked 2.4 to 0.0 and looking like a sneaky chance of making it a close finish.

He should've just hung his head in shame instead of trying to fire up his teammates with 20 minutes left in the game.

You tosser.

Was that the one for the free when Stewart flattened him after we’d kicked a goal? Like the Sicily one in round 1?
Oh, no they didn’t pay that faaaaaarken obvious one. Amateurs would be a complement

 

[QuietB]

Agreed. And Goodwin doesn't like it. Unlike mcRae who endorsed it.

Geelong train for it. It is a key component of their game plan.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Only thing more embarrassing was the media making a story by going in to bat for him and the so-called self proclaimed? Wizard carrying on when his side was 30 odd points behind as if he’d just won a Final in the dying seconds..

Delete this post before more people read it and get brain damage.

 

[STPer18]

Geelong train for it. It is a key component of their game plan.

We sit dead last on the average frees for with just the 14.3, so our return on investment is failing. But I counted four Hawthorn smalls staging and ducking on Monday, although I'll give Bruest a mulligan because he's normally better than that. Ginnivan, Watson & Moore though - yeesh.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Hawthorn is treated unfairly

The Easter Monday game always has the same response which can be summarised that all free kicks paid to Geelong are wrong and all free kicks paid to Hawthorn are correct

It's embarrassing

 

[QuietB]

We sit dead last on the average frees for with just the 14.3, so our return on investment is failing. But I counted four Hawthorn smalls staging and ducking on Monday, although I'll give Bruest a mulligan because he's normally better than that. Ginnivan, Watson & Moore though - yeesh.

The Easter Monday game always has the same response which can be summarised that all free kicks paid to Geelong are wrong and all free kicks paid to Hawthorn are correct

It's embarrassing

 

[smeltitdeltit]

We sit dead last on the average frees for with just the 14.3, so our return on investment is failing. But I counted four Hawthorn smalls staging and ducking on Monday, although I'll give Bruest a mulligan because he's normally better than that. Ginnivan, Watson & Moore though - yeesh.

You don’t know what staging is

 

[Engimal v3]

You don’t know what staging is

Yep, staging and drawing free kicks are different things. The first one sucks, the second is just cheeky.