06-18-2021, 07:31 AM
(06-18-2021, 07:09 AM)DJC link Wrote:I think it's the latter Paul.
Every time I watch our games on TV, the expert comments blokes have a picnic on our poor defensive set ups, players ball-watching, poor positioning (or players badly out of position), not recognising opposition players' strengths (ie allowing left footers to get on their left), ad nauseum. Bolts had a more defensive gameplan but those same problems were still evident.
It's my belief that our players have never learned how to play AFL team defence and, consequently, we rely on individual efforts and winning one on one contests. Imagine how good Weiters would be if he was in Richmond's backline with five blokes who know how to play team defence.
I'm not sure that it's something that coaches can fix, although they should be able to address the basics. I can't help but think that our defence would more effective if we had beaten Brisbane to Luke Hodge. Daisy may have played a similar role, but not with the same impact and effectiveness.
Anyway, I hope Teague reads the article and takes some action to fix the problems.
Our defence in 2016 and 2017 was pretty reasonable. Once Teague came on board in 2018, the focus shifted and the coherence from those 2 years just evaporated. I'm not sure what's up, and I have no interest in starting yet another slanging match, but his coaching history with us clearly shows a struggle / lack of interest in modern, sophisticated defensive setups. We are lucky that neither Weitering nor Jones have been out long term, because we would be stuffed. Teague's reliance on these two is excessive IMO.