Run is very important.....but no player in the history of the game has ever run faster than the ball. So fix up the precision and accuracy of the disposal
100%. I said similar during the week.
One way to fix up the precision is reduce the number of rucks in the side.
Our rucks aren't the problem here, in fact they are probably keeping us in the game.
The silly thing is this, you get it right a few sentences later as we are using it by foot like we are wearing clown boots.Then you make silly conclusion.You're obsession with the two rucks makes you come across like a goose.
Its a double edged sword though. They help and hurt us at the same time.
Its also related to our forward efforts. 3 big forwards takes up to much space. You constantly talk about players taking eachothers space and launching against eachother, thats part of the problem here. The leading space is reduced by 1/3 because you have the extra bloke in there taking up space.
If we have a tall problem up until now it's Young who has been a virtual no attendance, but if Weiters is out he'll be needed critically to lift.
Believe me, i didn't want Young in the side. In fact, if we were looking fit (pre-weiters injury) i would be subbing out Young and resting TDK back in his spot. Perfect time to give him a sniff at CHB and roll the dice.
David King frothing over our clearance work, yet also bemoaning our lower pressure rating needs to put 2 and 2 together.
We can get the ball out of the ruck because we have 2 rucks. We can't get the ball back once we turn the ball over because we have 2 rucks.
They are doing very well on the run and overlap and we don't have an answer with our taller/slower side by comparison.
On top of that, 3 tall blokes up forward is making us lazy. When going forward. We either..... a) can't hit a leading target, b) are not even trying to hit a leading target c) or there is no leading target to kick to.
Either way, its a knock on for the extra ruck and consequently lack of run/pressure.
Don't think Acres has done his trademark kick out on the full this year, but he should've done that rather than centre it to GWS players. Lucky to not give up a goal there. Gotta be better.
Not only that Young offers less run than Gov. Cowan offers less run than Saad.
So we were lacking with run last week, so they've 'fixed it' by 'adding' less run this week.
Also no chance of putting a tall as an emergency because that will come from.... [37] Jordan Boyd, [16] Jack Carroll, [14] Orazio Fantasia, [19] Corey Durdin, [7] Matthew Kennedy *facepalm*
Eventually we'll win one of these, but it will be from good luck rather than good management.
That's the way Crouch was taught to go for a ground ball. If Carroll had learnt the same technique, there would have been no head contact.
I agree that the game has to evolve to minimise head knocks but part of that evolution is a return to good technique and the elimination of foolhardy play encouraged by the rules as they are interpreted now. If two players went for the ball as Carroll did, it would have resulted in a head clash.
That's the way I teach my 9yo son to go for the ball. Protect yourself by turning your body. If the other bloke is stupid enough to not do that, then that's on him. He doesn't meant to hurt the opposition by doing that, but protect yourself first, opponent second.
Afls duty of care will get you if you hurt someone else, but that someone else needs to show a duty of care to themselves!
