The Tackling Issue

[bigange]

I think it was Phil Walsh who mentioned this last night on On The Couch, he was talking about using one of the ex Melbourne Storm coaches, John Donehue, who has worked for a myriad of different clubs in the AFL, and is supposed to be really good at getting teams to improve their tackling abilities.

Just wondering has he worked at any stage with our playing group? If not do we have someone in a similar role?

 

[TheProwler]

I think it was Phil Walsh who mentioned this last night on On The Couch, he was talking about using one of the ex Melbourne Storm coaches, John Donehue, who has worked for a myriad of different clubs in the AFL, and is supposed to be really good at getting teams to improve their tackling abilities.

Just wondering has he worked at any stage with our playing group? If not do we have someone in a similar role?

If he did I wouldn't be using it on my resume if I were him

 

[tunksy]

Dont believe we haver ever had a specialist tackling coach in

 

[Danog]

Dont believe we haver ever had a specialist tackling coach in

We used the Storm coach

 

[Toadvine]

We used the Storm coach

I remember we used a storm tackling coach as well. It was even mentioned in a paper at the time.

 

[PhysicalGraffiti]

Time to get some tackling pressure back. They should be showing videos of the way the late great Maurice Rioli used to tackle. He was fierce!

 

[tigs2010]

I'm 100% sure the Storm tackling coach didn't teach our players to wave their arms around and avoid contact.

 

[tunksy]

Well get the tackling coach baaaaack

 

[Danog]

I'm 100% sure the Storm tackling coach didn't teach our players to wave their arms around and avoid contact.

Did you watch Dimmas Dissection from Round 1? He dodges the question.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Did you watch Dimmas Dissection from Round 1? He dodges the question.

 

[Tango67]

It's not a coach issue but an attitude issue
Make it a KPI that's worth something and it will improve

 

[theflea]

It's not a coach issue but an attitude issue
Make it a KPI that's worth something and it will improve

Been saying this for ages.

 

[Royceybaby]

I'm not so concerned with the tackling count, if it's high then it means we haven't got the ball enough! As the great Dale Weightman often says tongue in cheek I never worried about tackling cause I always had the ball and it's hard to lay a tackle when you've got possession! Agreed the opposition are going to have possession and it's important to be able to get the ball back but I think greater priorities are winning contested ball (getting our hands on it first) and being able to. Deliver the ball into our forward line in a structured and efficient manner. Any opposition coach knows that stacking their backline clogs the tigers up and then you beat us in the hard running spread out. The Bulldogs followed this simple plan last week and others will continue to do so.

 

[Spluff]

It's not really an issue. It was bad last week, but we are generally pretty good defensively. Our count is low because we play a style built upon corralling the player with the ball, not directly tackling them. Freo play the same style and typically have low actual tackle numbers.

During our run last year, both Freo and us had low tackle counts. But we had the 1 and 2 defence and the 1 and 2 pressure acts IIRC.

 

[Tony Harrison]

Did you watch Dimmas Dissection from Round 1? He dodges the question.

Well if Dimma's won't tackle that, how do we expect the players to tackle anything?