05-07-2023, 10:02 PM
Under pressure!
It's something that's overlooked a bit when discussing player skills.
I reckon some of our worst users of the ball could probably drop a football into a garbage bin from thirty metres on a training track...with no pressure. ;D
But put them under match pressure and they all have a different level of tolerance to that pressure.
When there is little pressure those skill deficiencies aren't as apparent (see the West Coast game).
When the pressure is really on some players stand up...others don't, to varying degrees.
It's when the skill deficiencies are found out...and we still have quite a few.
It's something that's overlooked a bit when discussing player skills.
I reckon some of our worst users of the ball could probably drop a football into a garbage bin from thirty metres on a training track...with no pressure. ;D
But put them under match pressure and they all have a different level of tolerance to that pressure.
When there is little pressure those skill deficiencies aren't as apparent (see the West Coast game).
When the pressure is really on some players stand up...others don't, to varying degrees.
It's when the skill deficiencies are found out...and we still have quite a few.