(05-01-2018, 04:57 AM)jeza link Wrote:Every club tries to do the same thing as Richmond. But if you look at their team they've got a lot of fast guys who can run all day. They tend to get teams from half way through the 3rd quarter onwards.
In my opinion - Richmond's success is only partially down to their intense pressure style of play. What is more important is their ability to keep doing it after they've exhausted their opponents and then they turn what was a tight game into a 4-8 goal win.
I think clubs that are stupid enough to copy are consigning themselves to mid-table mediocrity. Simply because by the time they get the duplication in place and locked down half the remaining teams have either advanced in tactics or found an effective countermeasure.
If you want to rise, you must innovate, and you must play to your own strengths! The best coaches are coaches that get the best out of what they have got. I think the key to Dimma's success has been to get out of the way and let the players play football, in my opinion Dimma was their speed hump, he was over thinking and over coaching! Even so they have been lucky on the injury front, even now they are still relatively injury free.
For me, it's the biggest argument against kids learning by tagging, you are basically just teaching them something another club already knows.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"