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IMHO, Form can be fickle.
Part of helping players get through a flat patch, is to take the pressure out of the situation and help them through it using an open and honest method of feedback.
What are they doing well?
What could they be doing better?
What can we do to try and get that functioning more appropriately?
Is it a conditioning thing? If so, I think that will be relatively evident. Giving Weiters a spell might be helpful, but not when there is no one putting his hand up.
At the end of the day the entire team is looking a bit flat. Let's hope that they are flogging them on the training track in an effort to get us primed for next year.
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(07-04-2016, 01:35 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:At the end of the day the entire team is looking a bit flat. Let's hope that they are flogging them on the training track in an effort to get us primed for next year.
I'd suggest there is more to it than that, it looks to me like some of the players have slipped into their old ways after a brief honeymoon period.
If that is true, if there is a bit of growing dissension, I'd be getting the kids out of that environment quick smart even if it means they have a rest and the old legs have to pick up the slack for the rest of 2016. Let's not poison the well just to keep consuming some dregs.
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Why do we continue to get smashed around the stoppages?
Nothing ever changes.....that used to be one of our strengths?
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(07-04-2016, 02:22 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Why do we continue to get smashed around the stoppages?
Nothing ever changes.....that used to be one of our strengths?
stats from the game :
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well in this instance i stand corrected - on paper, at least!
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Stats are useful if people understand their limits, and if they apply the information correctly.
In this case, it shows we don't have an issue getting first use. we don't have an issue getting our hands on the ball. It's what happens after that causes the problems.
Bolton referenced CHF a couple of times in his presser - as we all know, our forward line and delivery into the forward line are the major problems.
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(07-04-2016, 03:23 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Stats are useful if people understand their limits, and if they apply the information correctly.
In this case, it shows we don't have an issue getting first use. we don't have an issue getting our hands on the ball. It's what happens after that causes the problems.
Bolton referenced CHF a couple of times in his presser - as we all know, our forward line and delivery into the forward line are the major problems.
Stats are only useful with combined with other stats to get a total picture.
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Further you have toi know what a "Clearance" is defined as before you can understand the stats;
For example if Kreuzer or Phillips tap the ball clear of the pack is that a clearance?
What if our ruck taps the ball to the advantage of Gibbs or Cripps and they handball it to Sidebottom, who gets the clearance stat?
It's fraught with danger to rely on these stats too much, because the line of clearance is subjective.
On Saturday night we were clearly beaten in the midfield, possibly our worst effort in several weeks, just go back and watch the number of clear taps from Kreuzer or Phillips that went straight to Collingwood players.
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From what I can see a clearance is credited to the player who has the first disposal in the chain that clears the stoppage area to either teams advantage.
Question then is whether a tap or hitout from the ruck contest is counted as a disposal or whether a disposal is determined strictly as a legal disposal by hand or foot?
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(07-04-2016, 04:18 AM)LP link Wrote:Further you have toi know what a "Clearance" is defined as before you can understand the stats;
For example if Kreuzer or Phillips tap the ball clear of the pack is that a clearance?
What if our ruck taps the ball to the advantage of Gibbs or Cripps and they handball it to Sidebottom, who gets the clearance stat?
It's fraught with danger to rely on these stats too much, because the line of clearance is subjective.
On Saturday night we were clearly beaten in the midfield, possibly our worst effort in several weeks, just go back and watch the number of clear taps from Kreuzer or Phillips that went straight to Collingwood players.
Yes, I would agree - I also read somewhere that the different data collection agencies may define it differently.
In your first example (Krooz / Phillips) IMO this should count as a clearance.
In the ruck to Cripps to Sidebttom example, IMO this should count as a clearance to us, then a turnover, but i have no idea if this is the way they are interpreted.
As I stated earlier, Bolts made 2 references to CHF, making it clear to me that this is where he feels it really unravels. He made mention of the positive differential in the clearance, CP, and I50 stats, so at a guess they may not be so much of an issue for him.
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