08-10-2021, 05:53 AM
(08-09-2021, 11:20 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:maybe he's trying to limit the impact on a young mid and try and use other players at the coalface? Blokes who we need to make a decision on?
Looks like Teague is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't to me.
Didn't man up Stewart one week. Should have played an extra back the next, shouldn't have played the extra back the following.
Personally the players are reacting to game situations and rather than telling them what to do they need to work it out and see how being accountable results in a 7 man defence and how we need to get opposition to react to us rather than the other way around.
Still there will be criticism for that too.
Walsh is one of the Brownlow favourites and the coach is trying to protect him? The commentators thought that Teague was trying to negate a possible hard tag.
The game was there to be won and we started with our best midfielder missing from the centre bounce ?
I don’t really want to go over the Stewart debacle again, but it’s not about manning him up. It’s about allowing one of the best intercept defenders free rein without an opponent to worry about.
Playing a five man forward line against the Suns made our forward 50 entries ineffective and allowed them to rebound and put our defence under pressure. A very strange tactic for a team that needed to score.
And it’s inconceivable that players went to a five man forward line without instructions from the coach.
I’m still in keep Teague camp but he really needs some help with his tactics and structures.
“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