Stopping Carlton's Mids, how?

[CursoryMercenary]

Murphy
Judd
Stevens
Hadley
Gibbs

OMG!

Do we have to create taggers this week or do we have to bring Stenglein back to help out Selwood?

I think that Masten should be given a tagging job, see if he is up to it. He hasn't offered much in an attacking sense so far. Houilhan should be brought in for his pace alone.

 

[lewigie]

Kade Simpson?

Doesn't he play midfield too?

Masten should play on ball.

Kerr to dominate if fully fit. If.

 

[Looking For 4th]

Swine flu might do it!

 

[eagles rule]

Murphy
Judd
Stevens
Hadley
Gibbs

OMG!

Do we have to create taggers this week or do we have to bring Stenglein back to help out Selwood?

I think that Masten should be given a tagging job, see if he is up to it. He hasn't offered much in an attacking sense so far. Houilhan should be brought in for his pace alone.

probably have to bring MacNamara and Stinger back in help Selwood man/up

Murphy, Judd and Gibbs .Stevens amd Hadley are average players that only

require a opponent as opposed to a tagger.

 

[BlueTouchPaper]

Easy, watch every contest of the first half last week in AAMI - Play with the intensity the Blues think they can afford to lack, and you'll dominate.

 

[Eagle Ant]

Tackle FFS is a start.
Stop being Kerr concious
Kick the ball between the 2 big sticks.
And play the younger players.

 

[Empire_Persian]

Play Schofield on Murphy (in all probability he will play a HFF role).

Play Selwood on Judd, tag the absolute bajeebus out of him.

Congest the stoppages and let Kerr, Cockie, Priddis and SSelwood run havoc (dumping, tackling, headbutting and bumping anything in navy). It might help to have Lynch in there 'pinch-hitting'.

 

[Eagles 4 Mine]

no chance ......

 

[dynamite_kid]

I think if we can sneak a bag full of lizards onto the field, we might have a strategy.

 

[lewigie]

Bags full of money on the bench.

Judd won't hit the field.

 

[wirra44]

if kerr gets taken out of the match they should make kerry tag judd.

 

[bigburger]

Maybe we can take steal it from all the bottleshops

ZINGGGGGGG!!!!

 

[Lach72]

We did it.

Adelaide did it even better.
Judd had 19 touches.

They're over rated and now they're missing Waite.

You should win...*cough*

 

[bigburger]

We did it.

Adelaide did it even better.
Judd had 19 touches.

They're over rated and now they're missing Waite.

You should win...*cough*

Agreed. Chuck Kerr or Selwood on him. They will rack up 40 touches kick 4 goals and tear him a new one.

 

[Lach72]

Agreed. Chuck Kerr or Selwood on him. They will rack up 40 touches kick 4 goals and tear him a new one.

Make it Selwood.

Kerr would try and head butt him in the back and hit someone in the first row

 

[purple hater]

Make it Selwood.

Kerr would try and head butt him in the back and hit someone in the first row

Nah, Juddy is Kerr's bestest friend ever, he would probably wax with him if Juddy asked him to.

 

[spuzza]

Well hopefully the plan is better than the one used to try and stop leon davis last week. I remember watching the bounce and seeing ebert attempting to run with davis.

Got to play tight close checking football.

 

[Juddy88]

Tackle FFS is a start.
Stop being Kerr concious
Kick the ball between the 2 big sticks.
And play the younger players.

Playing the younger players will help stop Carltons mids?

How about we just try and not let them get a lot of the ball.

 

[bodazoka]

Easy, watch every contest of the first half last week in AAMI - Play with the intensity the Blues think they can afford to lack, and you'll dominate.

What this guy said!

I saw Judd tackled by 4 Crows players at once in that game... we cant even get one of our blokes to lay a tackle.

Intensity at the ball, the man and the contest. If we can do that then we dont have to worry about tagging because more than likely every one of there midfielders are always going to be outnumbered anyway.

We should play the zone to pressure the opposition and when they kick to a contest we need to always have one or two more players than the Blues, sometimes they will win the ball regardless and there will be space because our numbers are at the contest but more often then not we will win through sheer numbers and the ball will end up in our 50.

Also if they try to play the one two handball game to break the zone that Collingwood did can someone please flatten the first guy in the terf so he cant recieve the second handball!! Give away a free if you have too I dont care just make them think twice about trying to handball past the zone.

 

[Artie Bucco]

Also if they try to play the one two handball game to break the zone that Collingwood did can someone please flatten the first guy in the terf so he cant recieve the second handball!! Give away a free if you have too I dont care just make them think twice about trying to handball past the zone.

Not a bad idea, but doesn't that result in a 50metre penalty this year?

 

[bodazoka]

Thats a good point BB... I guess if you know its going to happen and you flatten the guy as he is disposing of the ball it would be ok. But even if it resulted in a 50m penalty against Collingwood I still would of cheered.. at least one of our blokes was taking some initiative to react to it. The amount of times they used it to break through our zone was amazing, highlighted how much our blokes wernt switched on.

 

[KamakazeSalami]

I think it'll come down to Cox tbh. I think he is going to rip Kreuzer and Cloke (if he plays) new ones. I've never seen so much negativity aimed at Cox after a game (from fans and media). Its going to sting him deep and true champions come back and prove themselves.

If he can win the ruck contests convincingly AND have most of his hitouts to advantage we will be a chance. Problem is theres a bloke in the navy blue jumper (no 5 I think) who knows Coxy's game pretty well too so he'll be looking to shark the hitouts at every opportunity. Tag that mofo outta the game!

 

[buddymania]

No chance we are the worst tackling side in the comp. Need to bring stinger back in because Selwoods to good to be used as a shutdown player

 

[RoJo Junior]

Thats a good point BB... I guess if you know its going to happen and you flatten the guy as he is disposing of the ball it would be ok. But even if it resulted in a 50m penalty against Collingwood I still would of cheered.. at least one of our blokes was taking some initiative to react to it. The amount of times they used it to break through our zone was amazing, highlighted how much our blokes wernt switched on.

But that did happen at one stage on the weekend, a player took a mark on the HBF, and the Eagle player stood firm as the Collingwood player ran past wanting to get a handball, got dropped and they got a 50m penalty and a goal. I think it was Heath Shaw IIRC in the 2nd quarter.

 

[Spange]

Leon Davis playing loose man tore us a new one on saturday. Gibbs will probably play the same role floating around and his skills/disposal are exquisite. Glass and Emac will have their hands fulll stopping the flow from the middle.

Who/what can be done to stop this? I dont mind this talk of Stenglein coming back into the side. I can't see out younguns doing the job again like in Sydney but would like to be proven wrong. Please prove me wrong!!!!!

Lynch to the middle for stints throwing that HULKAMANIAC frame of his around?