06-22-2020, 06:21 AM
(06-22-2020, 05:45 AM)LP link Wrote:I've watched it twice now, I suspect it was a headspace issue, we looked frozen not unfit, like we were thinking "Oh no not again!"
If you have time to re-watch it, take notice of our players in the last half of the final quarter. They look confused, and I suspect they failed to follow team orders in those moments. There is no way a coach will tell a team to flood back and leave nobody to kick the ball to, and he certainly won't tell 4 or 5 onball or forward players to sprint to the CHB position form a circle and guard 25m of empty space while the opposition play around the boundary! They(our blokes) got there ahead of the Geelong opponents and stood watching as our defenders played outnumbered on the boundary, that is not a fitness issue, it's panic!
Another one was when SPS cut across and poleaxed the Cats running defender, SPS stood watching then moved all too late, after the opponent had fumbled the mark, SPS had assumed the Cat would mark and he gave up.
I thought that our players didn't know how to respond to Geelong's use of the corridor in the last quarter. The defensive structures that worked so well for the first three quarters weren't effective and our players didn't seem able to think on their feet and make appropriate adjustments.
It was a bit like our failure to adapt to Gawn's dominance in the first quarter last week.
I guess that's where we miss Daisy.
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball