Rd 10: Pre Game Premonitions: Carlton vs Geelong

[Thryleon]

Foxtel commentator actually highlighted Simpson a mile away from his opponent looking for the easy outlet kick but thats all history and we can see how they go this week vs the Cats
small to medium players up forward..

Its very easy to label someone as lazy, but these guys are working in a zone, and not being tight on a man can be a design, and simply following a man can be an oppositions method to open up a zone.

ergo, thomas's goal may have been to drag Simpson from the position he was in, rather than simply Simpson being lazy, and its much more difficult to allow a man to roam free and maintain your position than it is to follow him everywhere.

Now, on the flipside of that to find the answer to whether or not we were lazy, ask the following question.  Would his tight manning up have made one iota of difference?

The answer is simple, no.  Why?  Too much ball came in too easily, and they scored not from the smalls, not from the talls, but from the extra number pushing into their forwardline from midfield which created issues for us, as we had people trying to cover multiple players too frequently.

ERGO, they had a deliberate tactic designed to penetrate a zone defense, and we dealt with it poorly.


AFL 360 can give some good insight into the game, and perhaps a method around what happened would have been getting an extra number back, but I don't think lazy is necessarily the explanation of why it happened.