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Trotted out, I was there and watched it unfold,here's what someone else reported and these bastards linked up all night exactly what I saw.People always trot this out after games like this. Fact is, teams look really slow when their ball movement is slow. Our ball movement was glacial.
We also looked slow because our players simply never played on or took the game on at all. It was all about waiting, crabbing sideways, holding things up, then coughing the ball up.
Also, part of coaching is drafting, selecting and developing players. So if we really have no leg speed, that is also a coaching issue. We didn't just randomly end up with 40+ guys who are below AFL standard speed.
Finally, opposition teams always look really fast when (a) Geelong has the ball and Cats players all run to attacking positions (b) Geelong randomly coughs it up under no pressure (c) opposition can then go end to end with Cats players trailing 10m behind their opponents.
2. Speed kills
Gold Coast has been slowly but steadily improving over the season, and on Saturday night the team clicked into gear. They simply out-ran the Cats, streaming through the middle of the ground off half-back. Jarrod Harbrow (30 disposals), Aaron Hall (32 and 10 marks), Touk Miller (relatively quiet with 18) and Adam Saad were creative with their handballs and movement through the centre. They turned the Cats inside out, putting enormous pressure on their defence and causing chaos in their own forward line. Callum Ah Chee ran a slow Geelong backline in circles, kicking three goals, and was ably supported by fellow small Brandon Matera (two).
All factual.