05-19-2019, 11:14 AM
Yesterday I watched a low level suburban game - 101pts at half time and 209 at the end. Very boring, even with the right team winning. Today was shocking. Didn't even bother getting emotionally involved and just kept half en eye on it.
Today I watched the U9s and thought that there are some similarities. If you are 7 before 1 January, you can play under 9s. This means that there are some small skinny kids playing against some large 9yos. Often the small skinny's are timid, not reading play and lack confidence under a bit of pressure. The bigger kids, or ones that have played the extra year tend to dominate.
Unfortunately, we have a bunch of small skinny kids. Fisher was very fumbly early, which was indicative of what was to come. Late in the game LOB should have been in the thick of things, opted out and his effort to tackle would have scored 1 out of 1,000.
Voting in the Park Medal will be interesting - Garlett, Kerr and Kennedy were probably in the best.
While our defence has been decimated, our midfiled has to start standing up and being accountable.
Couldn't be the forwards, the ball wasn't there. Couldn't be the midfield as the ball wasn't with them. Couldn't be with the backline, as they kept giving it back. Leaves the bench!
Interestingly, I thought the commentary was quite bullish at the start about us, but then turned to what we might do (eg throw all experience in the middle and tell them they have to stem the bleeding). Not sure if we did any of it.
The result wasn't so unexpected - the manner and magnitude of it was.
Got a lot to do before the Saints next week.
Today I watched the U9s and thought that there are some similarities. If you are 7 before 1 January, you can play under 9s. This means that there are some small skinny kids playing against some large 9yos. Often the small skinny's are timid, not reading play and lack confidence under a bit of pressure. The bigger kids, or ones that have played the extra year tend to dominate.
Unfortunately, we have a bunch of small skinny kids. Fisher was very fumbly early, which was indicative of what was to come. Late in the game LOB should have been in the thick of things, opted out and his effort to tackle would have scored 1 out of 1,000.
Voting in the Park Medal will be interesting - Garlett, Kerr and Kennedy were probably in the best.
While our defence has been decimated, our midfiled has to start standing up and being accountable.
Couldn't be the forwards, the ball wasn't there. Couldn't be the midfield as the ball wasn't with them. Couldn't be with the backline, as they kept giving it back. Leaves the bench!
Interestingly, I thought the commentary was quite bullish at the start about us, but then turned to what we might do (eg throw all experience in the middle and tell them they have to stem the bleeding). Not sure if we did any of it.
The result wasn't so unexpected - the manner and magnitude of it was.
Got a lot to do before the Saints next week.