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That wouldnt of been allowed last year.
Who else is loving our new game style?
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We were more attacking in 2011. there is more then one attacking style of game.
In 2010 we lost because we failed to move the ball long quickly to the foward line. Too focused on maintaining possession through handball and not enough on kicking it quickly over the foward press that malthouse and lyon were implementing and creating chaos balls in open foward fifties.
2008 was just a choke. We should of been 6 goals up at half time. Only lost 2 games for the season. Nothing wrong with the game plan then. we just didnt execute when shooting for goal and then got stage fright in the 3rd qtr.
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Nope. Those fast passages of handball that move the ball quickly foward are a genuine thing of beauty. As is a perfectly executed torp, shimmy or speccy. It inspires me as much as a Monet, albert camus novel, sitting on top of the grand canyon at sunrise or opeths majestic morningrise album.
its one of the reasons why i follow football rather then say lawn balls, championship marbles or monster truck racing. all of which are competitions with winners and loses. Yet we all watch football. Why? There must be something the differentiates football from the 1000s of other competitions that exist.
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From 2007-2010 we used the corridor to often rather than using the wings. This made it easier for our opponents to put a high evel of pressure on us. In 2011 this was fixed.
Had we of used the wings more in the 08 GF Hawthorn would have tired out earlier. This would have most likely resulted in them not being able to apply pressure on us going forward, moving the ball slower when they got a turnover and being less efficient going forward.
The more fatigue you are the harder it becomes to execute your skills. I strongly believe had we tired Hawthorn out by using the wings more they would not of kicked the ball so well and been so efficient in their forward 50.
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Um no. Scott embraced the corridor in his early years. It became known as the Geelong highway during Scott's reign. Not Thompson's.
How Scott changed the game plan was less handball and more kicking it long over the forward press. Creating chaos balls in forward lines with little defenders. Thompson's game plan involved releasing players through handball rather then long bombs to contests deep forward. The forward press was developed to stop Thompson's handball game. The forward press weakness was bombing the ball over the top. Thompson recognised this in early 2010. Players weren't ready to change until 2011.
Yep, agree with the above.
Scotts game plan wasn't just about long bombs over the press. He encouraged the use of diagonal kicks to chop through it at times.
I'm definitely enjoying it more this year than the last 5. Makes it all the more frustrating that we are only playing this style of game once we no longer have our midfield in their prime.
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We've gone from one of the highest uncontested marking teams to one of the lowest, yet on the flipside we're so far one of the best at taking the ball from D50 to F50.
When you are kicking sideways and backwards to free players, but not progressing the ball up the field, thats a pretty obvious stat.
Metres gained I feel is a better stat to look at the turnaround between last year and this year. Last year we were averaging 5300 mg. So often sideways and backwards kicking to control the ball mixed in with long balls from half back. In comparison last year Melbourne were 6000 mg av per game, Lions were 5959 mg at 1st and 2nd. Direct play out of the centre and from rebound 50.
We were 13th, just above the Kangaroos.
This year we are 4th after 6 games, averaging 6000 mg. Demons are averaging 6300 mg per game, Lions at 6100 mg. So this year we are significantly more direct, and considering we have two of the best key forwards in the game, thats the way to be. When Rohan comes back in, with this direct play and attention being on Hawkins and Cameron, he will have a field day.
Everyone is happy. Its like we sacked Chris Scott the coach but kept Chris Scott the great media performer and representative for the club.
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There's no 'style' about it.
Like a V8 running on 5 cylinders.
Like a V8 running on 5 cylinders.
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Be nice if we went back to it today...
Did it for 5 mins and thought "that'll do!" then went back to 2021 BS
Did it for 5 mins and thought "that'll do!" then went back to 2021 BS
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I'm going to wake up in a cold sweat over some of those 'chip chip chip' passages. Genuinely disgusting football.
Literally one of the worst games Ive watched today.
It’s evident we don’t have the skills to move the ball quick and take risks.
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Really really weird how we reverted after quarter time. Some of that is credit for the opposition but all our defenders made a conscious decision time and time again to look sideways before even thinking about moving it on more directly. It was an abomination.
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Certainly were the worse for it... id rather be beaten playing the style announced that we would stick with.
Except the evidence is we have done it more often than not this year.
Today, wonder if it was panic from playing a "quick team" and the strategy was so Freo couldn't run us off our feet.
Either way, if Scott or the MC came up with the gameplan for Freo, bin it and give them a slap. Constant sideways movement was horrid.
Couldn't find the stats but would love to see our average uncontested marks for the season V the Freo match.
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1.3.9 in the middle quarters. Easily defended by top end defensive systems?
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I'm enjoying the footy and getting a lot more into it this year than previous years.
The way we're playing and having some young players makes it feel like we could lose every week but also makes it feel that if everything came together we could be way better at the end.
It doesn't sort of feel like nothing where you know the outcome like it has for ages.
The way we're playing and having some young players makes it feel like we could lose every week but also makes it feel that if everything came together we could be way better at the end.
It doesn't sort of feel like nothing where you know the outcome like it has for ages.
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Let’s hope the new game style continues to be developed. Lowering of the age demographic is obviously needed for quick chaotic play. A massive hike in our uncontested marks on the weekend . Let’s see in the next few weeks how it plays out.
