Pre game Premonitions: AFL 2021 Rd 14: Carlton vs GWS

[Thryleon]

Who is watching replays Thry?  I don't, and I suspect that our players and coaches don't watch them either.

Sun Tzu was a smart cookie, but he knew nothing about footy.  I'd prefer to listen to the likes of Luke Hodge and Jimmy Bartel; they know what they're talking about.

And it's not about opposition focus, it's about football basics in 2021.

Nah I was thinking about how we setup, what the goal is, and what actually occurs are two very different beasts.

They are happy to look at what doesnt work defensively, but ignore the fact that defense and offense are linked in different ways. 

I.e.  we setup offensively instead of defensively, and then our opposition has to win the contest to exploit that.  If we setup defensively, then even if we win the contest we can't make use of it and our opposition are still going to setup to take advantage of that.


Our team suffers from mentality issues not execution problems.

You change the way you setup and it makes life harder for both of you.  We don't need to make it harder for ourselves to score just to limit the damage if we are beaten. 

Those same experts were lauding Mitch Duncan setting up offensive side of the contest against Richmond which works to exploit them setting up offensively.

If Geelong are doing this then what we need to do is getting better at recognising when to do what.