(05-06-2023, 11:45 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Its about picking players that can kick, yes, but its also on game day.
Its like the old, 'never let a ruckman kick the ball' type of tactics.
Look at the blokes that got plenty of the ball....and turned it over plenty.
Don't let Acres be the last one in the chain when he bombs it up without looking and it goes straight to the opposition. Ditto Cripps.
So start with limiting the players you want kicking the ball.
Then work out where players SHOULD be kicking the ball, and where players need to be in order to receive it.
I'm not sure if it showed up on TV at all, but there was a number of occassions when we were on a 'fast break' and had to stop and go sideways simply because there was nobody forward of the ball to kick too. All our forwards had pushed so far up the ground that nobody was left at home. How can we find a target up forward when there isn't a target there at all?
As much as we want players to chase their man and have an 18-man team defense, sometimes that is exactly what the opposition want as it means they can't get hurt on the turnover. So perhaps we are better off leaving someone back so we always have a target to kick too.
You never used to see Fev up around the wing. He barely got outside 50.
Work smarter, not harder.
One tall, one small forward in the forward 50 at all times.
They have to man up on them.
It's not rocket science...it's the bleeding obvious.
Or maybe just one really, really good tall forward...signed D. Pagan. ;D