Goalkickers - Rnd1 - an interesting observation.

[pahoffm]

Has anyone noticed from the weekend that the bulk of the goalkickers in teams were not key tall forwards but were either long kicking midfielders or crumbers.

The first 10 listed are:
1. LeCras 6 - Med Fwd
2. Betts 5 - Crumber
3. Franklin 5 - Tall Fwd
4. Hahn 5 - Midfielder
5. Hooper 4 - Midfielder / Crumber
6. Morton 4 - Medium Fwd / Crumber
7. Motlop 4 - Medium Fwd
8. Roughead 4 - Tall Fwd
9. Bradshaw 3 - Tall Fwd
10. Brown 3 - Tall Fwd

So, as you can see, apart from Franklin, regular tall fwds don't kick in till #8.
Also that those 4 Tall fwds listed are confined to two teams, Hawthorn & Brisbane, whose game plans are centred to their Tall fwds.

The next 10:

11. Eagleton 3 - Crumber
12. Gilbee 3 - Midfielder
13. Griffen 3 - Midfielder
14. Hansen 3 - Tall Fwd
15. MacIntosh 3 - Tall fwd
16. Milne 3 - Crumber
17. Peake 3 - Med Fwd
18. Robinson 3 - Midfielder
19. Stevens 3 - Tall Fwd
20. Waite 3 - Tall Fwd

Again, the majority of goalkickers come from Midfielders / Crumbers.

Is the game changing dramatically and we, at Tigerland, are a bit slow in picking this up?

Instead of packing our forward half with tall key forwards, should we merely be putting 1 or 2 up there as a target, then packing genuine shorter forwards / crumbers around them, also instructing our midfield to have a shot unless there is a forward absolutely in the clear in the RIGHT position to have an accurate shot.

Raises the question,
Are our midfielders capable of kicking long & accurate goals from 40+ metres out?

Food for thought anyway.

Interesting to see how others interpret the other games over round 1 and how other teams have adapted to overcoming opposition defences.

 

[mexican_radio]

My wish list for a forward line

- unpredictable and thus hard to plan match ups
- fast crumbers (I went on about the value of small forwards last year, not many agreed)
- accuracy ! Astounds me that we cannot kick goals reliably from in front.

the stats are interesting Phanto but maybe we need a few more weeks of data to draw conclusions?

 

[RemoteTiger]

Our midfielders struggle to foot pass a ball to a team mate (target) how are they going to kick goals from 40+ metres out?

Why are they this poor?

IMO they do not work together - who shepherds or blocks for Foley - nobody - consequently when he gets a kick away it is always under pressure.

Now in days of yore it was the Ruckman's &/or Ruckrovers job to "clear" a path for the rover or centreman so he could deliver the ball properly into the forward line. How many "paths" did you see cleared on Thursday night? I didn't see 1 - and - the only shepherd I saw was when Cousins shepharded on the wing.

We don't do the grunt 1%ers well or at all - whereas the players that appear on your list are from those teams that did in round 1 - Carlton, Western Bulldogs, Saints, Brisbane......

 

[Tigermad2005]

lets look at this agaain in 4or 5 round.
It a only round 1.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Roughead, Franklin right amongst it again.
Hawks forward line is set for 10 years.

 

[craig]

Agreed dear Tooheys