The Collingwood Hand Ball

[Rgs011]

Have you noticed, that we more than any other club put our team mates under pressure with our hand balling? In what should be a simple hand pass, 9 times out of 10, our players will hand ball up and over the top...leaving the ball with 'hang time', and some poor bastard waiting under it for it to come down!

Add to this that our players do a little 'jump' or 'skip' when they receive the ball (not sure how that helps changing direction...being airborne and all), but it's something that frustrates me to no end.

What happened to running, receiving the ball on the tit, and not having to break stride?

 

[Brent24]

Yeah, we're not much of a handballing side... come to think of it, our kicking isn't that flash hot either.

 

[Pie eyed]

Have you noticed, that we more than any other club put our team mates under pressure with our hand balling? In what should be a simple hand pass, 9 times out of 10, our players will hand ball up and over the top...leaving the ball with 'hang time', and some poor bastard waiting under it for it to come down!

Add to this that our players do a little 'jump' or 'skip' when they receive the ball (not sure how that helps changing direction...being airborne and all), but it's something that frustrates me to no end.

What happened to running, receiving the ball on the tit, and not having to break stride?

I have to say that early in the year we were doing a lot and consequently playing poorly.
I think it is a timing thing, not just the hand pass but with our run and confidence. When we play confident attacking footy the player is in the right place to take the HP, when we are not we are slow to get to position to accept it.
When we were chopping up Geelong etc. we had our timing spot on and the HP were hitting every target with players just clear enough to take the pressure off.

 

[alfiiee]

Add to this that our players do a little 'jump' or 'skip' when they receive the ball (not sure how that helps changing direction...being airborne and all), but it's something that frustrates me to no end.

What happened to running, receiving the ball on the tit, and not having to break stride?

hmm players should be doing this at all times but the pass has to be good for this to happen effectively and at collingwood it hardly does. lol

 

[Optimax]

Our gameplan until teh past month wasnt based around handballing, we were a run 10 meters kick 40-50m side.

We havent based ourselves to run in packs and handpass our way upfield, and as such our handpasses are pannicky and rubbish.

Last week was terrible, but more because it didnt even look like us out there

 

[CENTERMAN]

I was reading the stats today on the CFC website and roughly worked out that Collingwood handball on ave just over "once per minute". Just a bit of useless info but 60 seconds is a lot of play in footy. U have to take into account the opposition possession time of course but, it's still a long time.

 

[Ilch]

One game that comes to mind is Amzac Day and how we put Essendon under the pump and made them handball silly and turn it over. Now it just looks like we are copping our own medicine and dont know what to do.

 

[Axl the great]

The run has definatly gone from the game style thus we handball to stationary players who are easier to close down.
The other main problem is our players do not spread to the right spaces to receive a handball especially out of the packs, Our GF teams of 02 and 03 were masters of this the best in the comp in fact.
Bring out the video player Mick!

 

[beez]

Arent we ranked 16th for handballs?

 

[Lockyer24]

We handball to get out of trouble only, never to actually create

Its such a simple skill, if we ever get a more up to date coach we might be execute it well one day like the good teams of the comp

 

[Kirby]

I suspect that our game plan and general movement does not lend itself to handpassing well.