2019 AFL Rd 1: Carlton vs Richmond at the MCG: Post Game Passion

[Thryleon]

Would anyone like to have a crack at actually defining ‘game plan’? Or, if not, maybe describe Richmond’s ‘game plan’, ‘system’, ‘brand’ or the like, compared to ours tonight? What were our deficiencies, in a ‘game plan’ sense? Who can usefully describe and set out any other team’s ‘game plan’?

It’s bullcrap, people. It’s vocabulary invented by the media and tolerated by coaches, but it means nothing. There might be vague plans for particular games, match-ups, moments, but no one has an overriding plan other than kicking more than the opposition. Please, let’s drop that talk.

I noticed that Richmond have tactics we dont.

They are better at using space than we are.

They are better at incidental knock ons to team mates because everyone knows that they are not necessarily going to take possession.  You can get lucky by design.

They aren't just banging in it into the forwards they hit up targets.

We are work in progress and were better able to manufacture space in the corridor but our final ball forward was often a bomb it and hope ball.