(06-18-2020, 12:50 AM)flyboy77 date Wrote:Doesn't matter how big or small you are if you can win the ball and use it well.We got to the football 1st plenty of times at the weekend, even in the 1st quarter.
Lachie Neale - 177cm, 84kg.
Use of the football is also influenced by the quality of the ruck and the ruck's involvement in shepherding midfielders from opponents. It's why GWS were so desperate to get Mumford back on the park, he protects guys like Whitfield and Coniglio from the pissweak "hang back and then tackle them types" that inflicted so much pain on us last weekend. People in the media pumped up Oliver and Petracca, but seriously as midfield bulls probably more than 50% of their possessions came from letting a Carlton player try to pick the ball up first. Fair enough, they know they are big enough to inflict pain on smaller mids, and that we lack the pace or strength to do anything in response, they were well coached in this regard.
I've stated before, the current rules reward the pissweak who leave winning the first touch to somebody else.
Who the feck are our midfield and stoppages coaches, how could we have such a wrongly phrased plan?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"