The rise.... and RISE of Marc Pittonet

[ElwoodBlues1]

Yes and no.
The game in “the old days” was more about individuals, today it’s more about team.
If you don’t position where your teammates expect you to be you will be exposing them to being opened up and exposed.
Flooding, pressing etc, I don’t think it’s as easy to swing the magnets as it was, not that it cannot be done but there may be more robbing of Peter to pay Paul.

I think when you are down the coach has to pull some moves out to spark the team, Collingwood seem to do it every week in their comebacks and Lyon won the game by moving professional Carlton nuisance Sinclair into the middle.
Im not sure what we did to arrest the situation but I'd prefer to see Voss try something rather than look like what Ratten and Bolton did when they resembled stunned mullets.
I think in the old days you had coaches like Tom Hafey who was famous for persisting with the same players in the same positions for the whole game and lived in hope and great faith they would lift because as you say it was more about individuals vs individuals ie Southby would play on McKenna or Southby vs Wade and those matchups stayed that way but the new modern fast moving game has more coaches looking at more options and the laptops are working overtime to move the magnets to get an edge. Voss made some nice prematch moves to curb Wilkie for example and I gave him a tick for that but I felt when the game is fluid and moving fast he struggles tactically unlike McRae and Lyon who seem adept at changing momentum.