(05-14-2021, 01:42 AM)kruddler date Wrote:[member=153]LP[/member]As I stated, what he did in that instance was wrong, but worng in implementation not necessarily in tactic if he is instructed to intercept at all costs.
Sure Jones might be playing to instruction...(I doubt it because being 25m out from the contest is in no man's land. Can't tackle players coming out of the contest because he's too far away.....but he's too close so the ball can still be kicked over his head.)
But...even if he is playing to instruction...he needs to be smart enough to know the risk/reward result of his positioning.
If he was instructed to hold that ground at that spacing it was tactically wrong, but I'd assert the bigger error was for the fat side players to get sucked across the middle into the contest was a even bigger evil. I note our VFL coach stated as much about LOB last weekend, failing to hold his ground wide of the contest, it's a fundamental error.
A bigger question for Carlton fans might be. Are we doing this because of the shortcomings of our midfield, do our outside players feel obliged to get in and help the slower types in Cripps, Walsh and Ed? Do we have the midfield balance wrong?
What Healy and Lyon complain about is a smokescreen, a diversion from the truth, I've no idea why but we can speculate.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"