AFL Rd 19 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs GWS

[kruddler]

Delivery into the forward line still needs more thought. Unless someone like Saadie is delivering, too many others just bomb it in. Watch how Charles set it up for H when he kicked to him late in the game. FFS kick to where the bloke is going, or should be going, not on top of his fckng head! Happens too often... lowering the eyes will help to bring in smaller forwards as well.

Agree.

Maybe i was ahead of the game as a kid, maybe there are just some very dumb footballers now, but i learned pretty early on that no matter where the football is, the players will move towards it. So when i was delivering the ball to someone, by hand or by foot, i had a better view of what was around them ( i could see the sides and behind) than what they could (looking at me with the ball).
So i would put the ball to an area that they could easily move towards and made it hard for the opposition to get there first.
I would tell where i wanted the player to be based on where i put the football.
I used this skill in a pack, never handballed to someones chest, but to the side (or over their head) so that they would go run to get it, and continue running.
I used this skill delivering to forwards, best spot to get an uncontested mark.
I used this skill in defence, best spot for a player to get the ball further up field....like running onto it.

For the life of me i cannot understand why this seems to be missing from the modern game for the majority of players.

This skill is something i saw in Cripps in a pre-draft highlights and some may remember me pushing his barrow to be drafted very early on. Its something we see with Jack Silvagni. Gibbs had it. Walsh has it.

TBH, its something different about this team (for the most part) that we haven't seen in a long time. They are actually doing it.
Its usually from the midfielders in contested situations. A quick handball out into space. Between the legs of an opponent, over the head of an opponent, but always into space that we are running onto. Look at games this year, vs last year vs anything since Diesel was playing.

Unfortunately, we haven't really used that with our entries inside 50.
I recall 2 today.

The Charlie to Harry one highlighted above.....and Saad to Cottrell running towards goal.
Putting the ball to our advantage and/or the oppositions disadvantage is a skill that i'm not sure can be taught, but should be a pre-requisite for any AFL player at this level. When it occurs, it stands out.