07-01-2019, 03:35 AM
(07-01-2019, 03:11 AM)LP link Wrote:I don't agree with that, because I don't see skill just as a subset confined to ball use.
The physicality and pressure we brought yesterday, Levi shoving opponents around, Ed stripping the ball off the opposition, SoJ's 1%ers, the gut running, the clock running, they are all skills. Daisy seizing the moment to push forward to be in the goal square, that's a learned skill. SPS making himself a pest inside F50, that's a knowledge based skill! The Simmo and SoJ set shots, those little moments!
I've got to give credit to Teague or whoever took the pressure off the players to allow them to perform in this way! Those skills were developed over a long period, that's all the coaches including Bolton, but they couldn't execute them in the recent past!
Notice Dow, a very similar error to Charlie just a couple of weeks back, but you have to be in the right place doing the right things to get the footy, another week or two might see Dow with a bagful based on a learned skill that isn't counted by disposal efficiency!
We saw glimpses of the other skills as well, O'Brien in particular hit some nice targets, as did Plowman to my surprise despite a couple of clangers. Fisher and Setterfield were both very good by hand in traffic. sMurph did what sMurph can do! I realise the slowness of the Freo midfield worked in our favor.
I distinguish between effort/attitude/physicality on the one hand, and cleanliness of disposal, avoiding clangers etc on the other, and the latter is what I mean by skills.