04-07-2019, 08:12 AM
(04-07-2019, 07:13 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:If you were coach yesterday, what would you have done different to win us the game?Abandon the zone and play tight football. Almost like it’s wet - no more leaving opposition players in space to run around us. Stay close and tackle so hard they bleed from from their butthole for a week after playing us.
Probably drop a spare man back at times to slow their ball movement down and initiate run from half back. We have to use the corridor more and stop trying to get a mark on a half back flank, pause, then kick long down the boundary line to contests with a big pack. Risk averse footy won’t work for 4 quarters.
Instead, run hard, link up with short kicks and hand passes to make their defensive structures change. Rotate players more too to support this. The few guys we have who do work hard look dead by the fourth quarter. Instead, everyone should look dead when the siren goes. We have some good runners and need to use them more in open space.
Have senior players protect the kids. They have to send a message when the opposition tries to rough up our younger players to put them off. No more bruise free footy from bigger guys like Cas and Plowman. If someone has the courage to stand in front of Cas, McKay or Gov in the future they should have to change their underwear at half time. Hell I’d even play Cas on Franklin in the first quarter just so he could crunch him in the first marking contest.
Get the captain to talk to the umpires about the holding off the ball and the nonsense calls against us. We got a raw deal yesterday and need to complain more.