10-25-2017, 03:43 AM
The crazy thing about our stats is that we are the highest kicking team on average in the comp, but we are ranked dead last on handballs - so are last in total disposals per game.
There is cause and effect in everything in football. We play safety first football and kick a lot, which means we get very little overlap run and handball. This gives defenses and midfielders plenty of time to get back and setup against us, which makes the forwards job difficult. But we also don't have any good forwards who can find space in this environment.
We play to minimise the score and opposition can kick, and this makes the midfields job extremely hard as we are often one man down at the stoppage, as the opposition effectively gets an extra midfielder.
Until we are prepared to play 1:1 defence and then be more daring with hands through the midfield with guys like SPS, Murph, and Cunningham we are going to continue to struggle to kick a score and put sides away. We are good in an arm wrestle game, but struggle with Plan B.
And we also need to remember that their are 17 other teams who expecting natural growth and development from their under 23 brigade, so thinking this is going to be a game changer in 2018 is a big stretch. Of course we need it, but we also need big years from the players traded in to make a difference.
There is cause and effect in everything in football. We play safety first football and kick a lot, which means we get very little overlap run and handball. This gives defenses and midfielders plenty of time to get back and setup against us, which makes the forwards job difficult. But we also don't have any good forwards who can find space in this environment.
We play to minimise the score and opposition can kick, and this makes the midfields job extremely hard as we are often one man down at the stoppage, as the opposition effectively gets an extra midfielder.
Until we are prepared to play 1:1 defence and then be more daring with hands through the midfield with guys like SPS, Murph, and Cunningham we are going to continue to struggle to kick a score and put sides away. We are good in an arm wrestle game, but struggle with Plan B.
And we also need to remember that their are 17 other teams who expecting natural growth and development from their under 23 brigade, so thinking this is going to be a game changer in 2018 is a big stretch. Of course we need it, but we also need big years from the players traded in to make a difference.