Practice Match: Blues v Pies, Fri 24 Feb

[ElwoodBlues1]

As one of the commentators said, defenders love it when its kicked in high like that. Gives the talls time to get across in numbers and either kill it or intercept. Just a useless tactic for mine:
- spoils the often hard work up the ground to get into the position to go going inside 50.
- risk of injury to your Rolls Royces by getting crunched in packs.
More low and precise entry is the go, our Rollers have more than enough skill and speed to make position to receive it, we have the mids now who can do precision.

Yep, fully agree, bombing the ball usually happens when there is no movement in your forward line and your mids are under pressure and just slamming the ball on the boot. It was a scrappy first hitout and neither team reached any great level in terms of method imho which is too be expected. Id expect to see more clean entries and delivery in the practice games proper and we will get a better idea if anything has changed game plan wise.
In the good old days of premiership glories we never won any pre season games and looked like the players were still on Mad Monday duty but come round 1 we were ready to go and usually very sharp so I wouldnt get too stuck on pre season game form and would rather see us go easy in the pre season games to protect our Rollers but have a full list to choose from come round 1.