Goaltracker 2019

[flyboy77]

Rules don't affect one's ability to execute BASIC SKILLS.

Let's get the basics sorted before we address the nuances?

[Thryleon]

@DJC, our lack of composure stems from a lack of understanding of what to do in what situation.  the 6-6-6 has resulted in us having to adjust what we do when we are in front (i.e. structuring up behind the ball, and in midfield which is where the bulk of our inexperience which effects our ability to find our forwards).  Some of our boys are still finding their feet at AFL level, and are only just getting up to AFL level fitness.  The rules have had an effect here.  Increased workrate is required to structure up accordingly due to having to get into starting positions and run harder, faster further than ever before.

Its really simple for me.  I grew up playing a sport where the rules didnt change much if at all.  The way an experienced player handles game situations, is very different to how an inexperienced head does, and that means that we are significantly effected with respect to shifting goalposts, and might go someway to explain the lack of form of Charlie Curnow (who is covering a lot of distance to achieve, not much).

Rules don't affect one's ability to execute BASIC SKILLS.

Let's get the basics sorted before we address the nuances?

Yes and no.

I.e. The experienced sides are better able to adjust, because all they have to change where they are kicking under pressure.

Our boys are trying to figure out what to do under pressure, and then execute it accordingly.  they are inexperienced and therefore choose the wrong option under pressure (Dow handballing into the corridor instead of kicking down the line with a couple of minutes left) and execute it poorly because of the pressure.

Nuances are extremely pertinent to decision making, and therefore composure.  Inexperience needs more time to execute things and appreciate the situation and then choose the appropriate option.

Minus runners who are "onfield" coaches so to speak and you have even less ability to execute under pressure due to lack of composure.

Anyone will tell you that these guys execute the basics at training extremely well, and in game situations, a metre off can look like a canyon of difference.

[LP]

Yes and no.

I.e. The experienced sides are better able to adjust, because all they have to change where they are kicking under pressure.

Yes, it's clear rules can affect the threshold which determines a basic skill non-linearly. There are many who were OK under the old rules who have quickly become unacceptable, this seems to be the driving force behind coaching tactics.

So exposed is the fact that the megalomaniac coaches are nowhere near as good at teaching athletes to kick the football as they claim. The game tactics confirm this, it's like an admission of guilt or inability!

[flyboy77]

I think you guys, like the 455 coaches at CFC - and the players - are over thinking it.

It's a pretty darn simple game really.

[Thryleon]

Yes, it's clear rules can affect the threshold which determines a basic skill non-linearly. There are many who were OK under the old rules who have quickly become unacceptable, this seems to be the driving force behind coaching tactics.

So exposed is the fact that the megalomaniac coaches are nowhere near as good at teaching athletes to kick the football as they claim. The game tactics confirm this, it's like an admission of guilt or inability!

You could argue that the players are the ones that work on honing their skills, not the coaches.

The coaches are there to direct traffic, and inform players on where they can and should improve particularly with respect to the game plan.

Where a player has gone from acceptable to unacceptable can be a combination of factors, but the one that is likely to be the biggest is composure.

its cost us more than anything thus far.

[LP]

I think you guys, like the 455 coaches at CFC - and the players - are over thinking it.

It's a pretty darn simple game really.

Not as it is being coached, administered and implemented.

You cannot take a simplistic approach to this problem, you have to accept every coach is looking for loopholes and weaknesses.

[Thryleon]

I think you guys, like the 455 coaches at CFC - and the players - are over thinking it.

It's a pretty darn simple game really.

There is nothing simple about proffesional sports.

If you are off by 1.1seconds, that can be the difference between winning and losing.

If you run 5 metres to your right, instead of to your left, it results in a score against rather than a score for.

If you kick it behind a player, rather than in front of the same can occur.

Ironically sometimes the opposite to what we expect to occur happens.

The way players move on field isnt an accident.  Its a complex mechanism of 36 individuals all playing on the same oval moving in relation to each other.

The simple part is what happens when you have the footy in your own personal possession.  The difficult part??  The 150 metre run off the ball to drag an opponent out of a teamates space, to create space for one of your teamates to work into, and provide the necessary seperation to transition.  What we really don't see, is how sometimes players work their dots off to create the overlap run, only for us to stuff the kick up forcing us to transition from offense to defense, and then have said player caught completely out of position.  The commentators point to said player not working hard enough to get back, when odds are they are working harder than anyone on the field (i noted Simpson do this twice against richmond from opposite flanks, half back to half forward to get two positions in a minute).

If we turn it over, he is out of defense, at half forward, and having to do 400 metres, in 2 mins to get back into his defensive position.

Simple game my foot.

[flyboy77]

The key to a great coach (or 455 as the case may be) is to keep the message simple.

I repeat, it's all overthought....

That , or the greater majority of our blokes have a single digit IQ! 

[JonHenry]

Rules don't affect one's ability to execute BASIC SKILLS.

Let's get the basics sorted before we address the nuances?

Biggest problem in every organisation.
Something along the lines of crawling before you walk.

[spf]

Are we still doing the Goal tracker?