07-19-2017, 09:05 AM
(07-18-2017, 11:46 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Getting cute is a dinky 15m kick across goal instead of playing it safe...you miss with the kick and its a goal....the higher percentage safe option is the long kick along the boundary...defense 101.
In one match recently we had the nice option of Charlie Curnow pushing up on one back flank and Weitering on the other back flank to kick to and it worked really well....they took several marks and we got the ball out of the danger zone easily.
We kick short way too often and like all poor teams we execute poorly more often and get the ball picked off, gifting goals is one of our problems...
We need decent good kicking mids to hit up those 3 targets of yours....
Higher % safe option.
If you break it down, you are more likely to have a goal kicked against you by going long down the line than sideways across goal. Not immediately, but overall.
How many kicks across goal occur before 1 misses like Wieterings? That might occur once out of 100 kicks. There is always a free man running sideways to kick to. It is a high % option that comes off more than any other kick.
Now the alternative, long down the boundary.
50-50 option at best.
What happens to the 50% chance that doesn't go our way, a lot of that comes back at us. If only 5% results in a shot on goal, it is still 5 times more likely to get a shot on goal than the across goal kick.
The higher % option is to maintain possession.