08-12-2019, 06:04 AM
(08-12-2019, 05:55 AM)tonyo link Wrote:Their handballs were mostly to blokes on the run in the clear - we tried to much of the cute in-close stuff......the stats for disposal efficiency were 69-57 to them (and it was 73-51 at half time....) - we had more butchers than Costco on a Saturday morning.....
Then the issue is not handball to kick ratio, it's butchering the ball. We spent the entire afternoon bombing the ball long into our F50, and it didn't work. Whilst I have a soft spot for a long, simple kicking game into a F50 with strong marking forwards and good crumbers, there is undoubtedly an art involved, one which we have yet to master. Teague has had most of his success playing 1 big bloke and a few smaller ones in the forward half (by necessity as much as anything), so I'm not sure why you would change a winning formula, even though I do understand the conventional wet weather logic. What's more important than understanding the weather is understanding the opposition. Anyway, hopefully a lesson learned.