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PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
This is an interview with Terry on Sport927.
I wrote down some notes for the benefit of those without speakers. Sorry if they're not 100% accurate but I had 5 pages of scribble that was pretty hard to decipher. Also sorry to Aunty Ede. I'm a bit typed out now so your letter will have to wait until tomorrow. :hihi
I wrote down some notes for the benefit of those without speakers. Sorry if they're not 100% accurate but I had 5 pages of scribble that was pretty hard to decipher. Also sorry to Aunty Ede. I'm a bit typed out now so your letter will have to wait until tomorrow. :hihi
- Everyone says it’s their best pre-season but such is the nature of any elite sporting competition. If you’re not improving every year you’re going to go backwards at a hundred miles an hour so it’s right that most clubs would say they’ve done the pre-season better and got better principles in place.. You need to keep improving all the time. Terry is pleased with our pre-season.
- The one thing we’ve tried to do with the NAB 15 is that footballers are creatures of habit and what happens is normally during the season you work hard all week and either get rewarded or disappointed at the end of the week and then it gives you something to work on the following week. That’s what we tried to put in place. Players went in on Saturday morning and had their week’s points and had gone up a few spots or down a few spots and it gave them something to aim for leading into the following week. Just so one week doesn’t just become the same as another.
- You have summer skills sessions, it’s a hot. Miserable day, you might have missed a couple of kicks and not be that down on yourself cos you’ve got another 30 sessions before you get started where with the NAB reward plan you knew a couple of missed kicks was going to cost you at the end of the day, at the end of the week and could cost a spot in the first NAB game. It just kept the boys on their toes.
- Gone a long way down the path of doing more and more match simulation because when it comes to the crunch you can run around witches hats as much as you like and test your skills but that’s not the way it happens in a game so you try and simulate (game conditions) as much as possible.
The way it is now with the numbers getting behind the ball and you turn the ball over that’s probably the time sides score highest against you. That counter attack method of you losing control of the ball and all your guys are running forward then they’re out on the rebound it hurts you badly. Obviously an area we’ve just got to improve.
- Polak would say he’s a more natural forward than defender but it’s a needs basis for every club. Look at a player like Chad Cornes has played forward some of his career, he’s played back and they’ve used him in the midfield so you’ve obviously use the players on how you feel the needs are there for your side. We certainly want to be able to free Joel up more regularly to be able to play a running h/b role rather than needing him to take a key position, but we didn’t have the personal to do it. Graham will be a great acquisition for us; he’s fitted in really well and trained really hard. He was underdone from a development point of view when he arrived but he’s improved and certainly whatever he gives us this year will be better over the next 2-3 years.
Cleve has played all pre-season at CHB, really for his development. He’s more of a natural forward like Polak. Not many guys come through as back men. The best players have been sued as CHF’s in their respective sides because coaches want to win, so by the time they get through the key position players are all forwards so you’ve got to try and develop a couple of them as back line players.
Wants to have flexibility of structure and be able to move players around. When Terry first arrived we were a little bit behind in that aspect with the guys who’d been at the club for some time.
- The forward structure-KK and Richo to play the 2 major key position roles. We’ve got a variety of players young and developing that can paly that third spot whether it be a Graham Polak playing at either end. Guys like Jay and Cleve are trying to work into that position, then Browny, Krak, Pettifer as our smaller forwards. Also Brent Hartigan has played some very good football over the summer months as a forward.
JON had stress fractures over the summer months that have taken a long time in healing. He’s had no luck at all getting on the track. Terry has a lot of faith in him.
- Our major improvement will be from players who’ve been around 3-4 years. They are bodily developed enough now that they should be able to impact on a game. You look at guys like Brett Deledio and Richard Tambling but also Danny Meyer and Brent Hartigan have been in the system 3-4 years and they’re where our improvement will come from.
On the new rules- Addressed in our individual TAFE courses and have had the umpires down regularly working with several of our groups, what’s allowed, what’s not allowed and tactics you need to put in place. The area that Terry wanted clarified is the adjudication of the ball coming in long. The rule states that if it comes in and goes over the back of the pack that’s not a marking contest so you’re allowed to use your hands but the judgement for the umpires is what is over the top and what is in the marking contest. It’s going to be very difficult for them. A grey area.