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Wallace angry at overuse
by: Andrew Wu at the MCG
Sportal
Richmond took the possession game to a whole new level last year when it dismantled Adelaide by refusing to kick to a contest but the same style of play came a cropper against Carlton on Sunday night.
The Tigers' performance left coach Terry Wallace and spearhead Matthew Richardson lamenting how they had 19 less entries into their forward 50 than their opposition despite having 70 more possessions.
Despite leading by 17 points at half time, Wallace, perhaps aware of the dangers over-possessing the ball would bring in the second half, urged his troops to use the ball less.
However, it fell on deaf ears as the Tigers 'went into their shells', said Richardson, and refused to kick the ball long.
For Richardson, that was particularly frustrating as it reduced the likelihood of him being one out with opponent Setanta O'hAilpin, who performed admirably in his 13th match against one of the best forwards in the competition.
"We had a lot of the ball and a lot of uncontested marks. But it didn't correlate into inside 50s," Richardson said.
"You obviously want it to be coming in quicker and kicking it a bit longer out of the back half."
"And that's how we want to play but as Terry said, probably guys went into their shells and went for the shorter one because they didn't want to make a mistake and invariably we did make a mistake. It's not probably how we want to play ideally."
Wallace described his side's 27-point lead in the third term as a 'fool's economy' and felt his side had, to its detriment, erred on the side of caution.
"So I thought the game was closer than what the scoreboard suggested. I just thought we went back into our shells," Wallace said.
"We missed targets because we weren't prepared to pull the trigger early enough and played a real stationary brand of football, particularly out of the back end."
"Credit to the opposition. That's obviously their good defensive work to stop that, the run and carry. I thought there were opportunities to run and carry and we just didn't take it."
"Sometimes possession of the ball, going short and keeping hold of it is OK for you as an individual because you don't want to lose possession."
"So you sort of say, go short, chip it short and make sure I maintain but it doesn't give you any ability to sort of get the carry into the game."
http://www.sportal.com.au/football.asp?i=news&id=96576
by: Andrew Wu at the MCG
Sportal
Richmond took the possession game to a whole new level last year when it dismantled Adelaide by refusing to kick to a contest but the same style of play came a cropper against Carlton on Sunday night.
The Tigers' performance left coach Terry Wallace and spearhead Matthew Richardson lamenting how they had 19 less entries into their forward 50 than their opposition despite having 70 more possessions.
Despite leading by 17 points at half time, Wallace, perhaps aware of the dangers over-possessing the ball would bring in the second half, urged his troops to use the ball less.
However, it fell on deaf ears as the Tigers 'went into their shells', said Richardson, and refused to kick the ball long.
For Richardson, that was particularly frustrating as it reduced the likelihood of him being one out with opponent Setanta O'hAilpin, who performed admirably in his 13th match against one of the best forwards in the competition.
"We had a lot of the ball and a lot of uncontested marks. But it didn't correlate into inside 50s," Richardson said.
"You obviously want it to be coming in quicker and kicking it a bit longer out of the back half."
"And that's how we want to play but as Terry said, probably guys went into their shells and went for the shorter one because they didn't want to make a mistake and invariably we did make a mistake. It's not probably how we want to play ideally."
Wallace described his side's 27-point lead in the third term as a 'fool's economy' and felt his side had, to its detriment, erred on the side of caution.
"So I thought the game was closer than what the scoreboard suggested. I just thought we went back into our shells," Wallace said.
"We missed targets because we weren't prepared to pull the trigger early enough and played a real stationary brand of football, particularly out of the back end."
"Credit to the opposition. That's obviously their good defensive work to stop that, the run and carry. I thought there were opportunities to run and carry and we just didn't take it."
"Sometimes possession of the ball, going short and keeping hold of it is OK for you as an individual because you don't want to lose possession."
"So you sort of say, go short, chip it short and make sure I maintain but it doesn't give you any ability to sort of get the carry into the game."
http://www.sportal.com.au/football.asp?i=news&id=96576
