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Handpassing to stationery targets

tigers#7

tigers#7

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Oh my god this sh!ts me!!!! Do footballers have brains? Our u/16s coach tells us every game, keep the ball moving forward, do not pass to stationery targets. Reward for effort is our motto. Reward the player whos trying to make the play, gut-running. I think this is the main reason guys like Deledio and Tambling are lazy, is because all they're disposals are spoonfed to them. Who the hell is coaching this club? This is one of the basics of football!
 
Great post, we are the undoubted kings of this.

No one does it better in the AFL then Shane Tuck. He would have six of these a week. He is not on his own, Kane Johnson is pressing hard for the title and it will be a gripping last six weeks to see who takes out this most prestigious title.
 
This drives me mental every *smile* week. However, is it the fault of the player who has the ball & is looking to move it on - but has no vision? OR, is it the fault of the player who is nearby offering absolutely no support & just looking on like a spectating passenger? A little bit of both methinks.
 
zips said:
This drives me mental every *smile*ing week. However, is it the fault of the player who has the ball & is looking to move it on - but has no vision? OR, is it the fault of the player who is nearby offering absolutely no support & just looking on like a spectating passenger? A little bit of both methinks.
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Well I think its just plain dumbness. Its just stupid, they gain nothing but stats. Makes players lazy. My u/16s team dont do it, or else the person who passed it and the reciever will get dragged. You would think a proffesional football club would address that.
 
that does *smile* me but not as must as when i was in under 10's you were always taught to shephard after every handball and protect your teammate which we dont seem to do either

i think their is a bit of promise for a dedicated thread of basic football principles unknown to richmond players
 
what really cheeses me off is when a player has the ball, they refuse to kick the bloody thing. Instead they always look at handballing the darm thing.

Go back to the basics tigers
 
IrockZ said:
that does sh!t me but not as must as when i was in under 10's you were always taught to shephard after every handball and protect your teammate which we dont seem to do either

i think their is a bit of promise for a dedicated thread of basic football principles unknown to richmond players
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isnt it amazing? they get taught all this zone *smile*, and forgot the basics of a very basic game.
 
Unfortunately this has been part of our game for too long. I remember this happening years ago and Gas used to be the greatest exponent of it. Like everyone else it drive mes crazy. Wallace made mention of it this weeks saying our insistence on handballing backwards to a stationary target is causing a lot of turnovers.
 
Port and Hawthorn both knew our game and set up very well through the middle of the ground. Our players were constantly confronted by an opponent when they got the ball and were forced wide to the wings to get clear possession.
 
Yep good thread this one.

We always handball side ways or backwards. We hardly ever handball to a moving player runing forward. Other AFL clubs do this really well so this has to be a coaching problem. There has been much criticism of our back line and our forwards, but the movement that our mids create is down right disgraceful. It's Suburban like!

It's Suicide handball :P

Our other big problem is the lack of movement up the ground. I have never seem an AFL side so stationary at times. Again suburban like football.
 
Said this on about 10 threads by now....but here it goes again.

We handpass to stationary targets because we don't have a midfield that runs hard enough into space (like Cousins/Kerr, Lappin, Harvey, Cornes/Burgoyne, etc) to provide the ball-carrier an option to KICK the ball to.

It is this laziness, unfit, and/or mentally weakness in our midfield that has been a cancer at the club for about a decade.

I should save this post so I don't have to keep repeating myself.....and if we don't recruit kids willing to throw their guts up at 3/4 time because of the amount of gut-busting running they have done, then I'll be pasting this post over and over again for another 10 years. :-[
 
blackandyellowmatt said:
Stole my thunder, we were just talking about this in the chat.

Worst part of our game.

Is this what they are being trained to do?
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I've actually come to the conclusion that they dont "train" at all. They train what they're going to do on match day, and listen to Wallaces tactical *smile* all week, but they forget the most easiest of basics. If you gave my grandma a footy, and gave her the option of handpassing it, or kicking it long, i think she'd go the latter.

Our coach every week, never shutsup, but I thank him for it, because I never forget when I'm on the footy field.

1) Shepherd always
2) Never walk on a footy field
3) When in trouble, kick it long, handpassing only shifts the pressure onto your teammate.
4) When it's your turn to tackle, you do it, and do it hard
5) Play like its your last game ever.

Backing up your teammates, talking to them, chasing, all these basics, if you do them well, you will go places. No matter how many tactics you have. Thats all crap. These guys are footballers, when they step out on the field, instinct and talent takes over. You dont ever think about Wallets sh!tty tactics.

Wallace, needs to reinforce these basics back into the players minds, not only will it be great to watch, but it also strengthens the bond within the playing group, they trust each other more.
 
tigers#7 said:
Backing up your teammates, talking to them, chasing, all these basics, if you do them well, you will go places. No matter how many tactics you have. Thats all crap. These guys are footballers, when they step out on the field, instinct and talent takes over. You dont ever think about Wallets sh!tty tactics.

Wallace, needs to reinforce these basics back into the players minds, not only will it be great to watch, but it also strengthens the bond within the playing group, they trust each other more.
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Richo said as much in the Herald-Sun on the weekend, that these days there are too many meetings, and that people are making football out to be 'complicated', when its quite basic.
bang it down to the forward line as quick as you can, have a midfield that is willing to run down to help the defence and run forward to provide options and help in attack. Man-up on opposing players when they have the ball.
Too many tactics and set-plays...its all *smile*, to be frank about it.
 
tigers#7 said:
2) Never walk on a footy field
3) When in trouble, kick it long, handpassing only shifts the pressure onto your teammate.
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Walking is ok - it's called smart running - knowing when to walk, run, jog, sprint etc. It's all part of breaking an opponent. Google an article written by Michael Voss about an early lesson Robert Harvey taught him.

We don't have smart runners.

An effective handball can be just as pressure relieving as a long kick; provided it's executed correctly and covers more than 30cm, which a lot of ours don't seem to do.

EDIT: http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/how-i-modelled-myself-on-rob-harvey/2007/06/16/1181414608679.html
 
Liverpool said:
Richo said as much in the Herald-Sun on the weekend, that these days there are too many meetings, and that people are making football out to be 'complicated', when its quite basic.
bang it down to the forward line as quick as you can, have a midfield that is willing to run down to help the defence and run forward to provide options and help in attack. Man-up on opposing players when they have the ball.
Too many tactics and set-plays...its all *smile*, to be frank about it.
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Read that to Livers. Thought it was a bit of a back hander by Richo actually.
I think Terry is a smart lad for sure but are the players listening?
School is never much fun for the footballer.
 
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