" The Game Plan"

[Fairtex09]

We often here about Dean Bailey's game plan being different to Neil Daniher's when he was in charge. I would like to know how Neil's Plan is so different to Bailey's and why our layers cant seem to get the nack of it. To be honest I cant really remember how we played differently with ' Neil's game to Dean's. More shitty hand-balling, thats about it.

 

[w00dy]

under ND we kicked a lot more, and we preferred to use the wings... our midfielders would lead out from the centre to space on the wings and that's how we'd move the ball forward... that's why we played well at the G, but struggled on narrow grounds like Kardinia Park and Football Park...

under Bailey we run in numbers a lot more and carry the ballk... while when we looked great under ND we did run and handball more, it was mainly off half back from blokes like Nathan Brown... now our players aren't afraid to run the ball through the middle of the ground... if you're going to get tackled, there should be someone right next to you to give the handball off to...

ND actually tried to implement a run and carry game plan similar to Bailey's in the first couple of weeks of 2007 I think it was... he worked out pretty quickly that the players weren't up to it at the time and pretty much changed the gameplan back...

 

[demonfan9]

I seem to recall early in Daniher's reign that we played his game plan quite effectively. As w00dy said, we would kick the ball to the wings, where our midfielders would run laterally to the space, and then move it into the forward line.

 

[melbournemartin]

Daniher did have the advantage of putting Neitz in the goal-square. Bailey can't do that. I don't like us having all our forwards up around the 50 so often though.

 

[00Stinger]

Too often we get the ball up the ground and there are no forwards to kick to inside the 50.

 

[LordNelson]

all this mention of working it down the wings doesn't jibe with the countless times i'd heard ND say his gameplan was all about "owning the corridor".

as to bailey's i can't really discern a gameplan from week to week

 

[Major Colvin]

We over-handball because there's noone decent to kick to in a contest? Miller? Easy to "own the corridor" and "kick it long and direct" when you have Franklin and Roughead up forward

 

[puckled]

Bailey's run/carry/handball game plan looks ok, its just when that one skill error inevitably pops up that it falls to pieces.

E.g in the Collingwood game when we worked it well up to CHF and then Garland had his kick smothered after procrastinating too long and it ended up in a rebound goal to the Pies.

I dont think some of the young guys skills are quite up to scratch yet to make it work effectively all the time, but theres been glimpses.

 

[w00dy]

all this mention of working it down the wings doesn't jibe with the countless times i'd heard ND say his gameplan was all about "owning the corridor".

in a way, we did own the corridoor... most of our midfielders would be situated in the middle of the ground, leaving plenty of space on the wings... in this way we did own the corridoor, but to get some free space, our mids would lead laterally to the wings... that's how we'd move the ball from half back...

drawing players out to the wings, and thus creating space in the middle... we'd then try and hit a target toward centre half forward in the corridoor due to the space that's been created, or otherwise we'd go down the line to a target...

when it worked, we'd own the corridoor, but when it didn't, we'd just be stuck out on the wings...