We can have the other teams fearing us.

[Coughlan24]

We'll have the rest of the league worried now, they know on any given day give us three goals start and we can make life very difficult. The beauty is that it is such a precise plan as long as our entry into 50 hits a target we'll be a chance to score everytime.

 

[Disco08]

No team will be as slow to start manning up as the Crows were yesterday.

 

[GoodOne]

No team will be as slow to start manning up as the Crows were yesterday.

But it will stop the flood. It's an ingenious tactic.

Cheers

 

[crackertiger]

Geelong will be scared, but they will certainly be fired up with a point to prove.

Should be a good game.

 

[Ian4]

don't wanna see that tactic every week. we won't need to play like this at geelong... it's usually windy and footy is usually scrappy. i think playing there should suit us. interesting to see how we'll cope with the geelong flood though...

 

[billyb#40]

Saturday was an interesting development of the game, it will never be quite the same.
A few preliminary comments

In part its the old basketball tactic that you run two plays of the offense and the defensive team loses concentration and you get an easy basket.
In this adaption the backs kick it around for a few minutes, 20 marks and boring kicks and the defensive team drops off, leaving players loose then a quick run down the guts and an easy goal.

If the defensive team floods back, then you have heaps of free player in your backline. Do they then come out of their flood to stop you chipping it around. If so then they have to man up all over and they loose the advantage of having an extra man (or 10 men) in the back half.

The only problem is that you need to be ahead before you can force the other team to chase you. If you are behind then they leave you and you could waste time chipping it around for ever

So what are the options,
Maybe you play a full man on man game, but you could have a superstar blow you away, what single player could man up on Judd.
A rolling zone where you man up on everyone within 55 metres of the ball and have a rolling loose man 60 m + behind the ball to help with any break aways

The best option is to start quick get 3 goals up and then shut down the game and make them chase you until you get a mismatch and can make a lightening attack on goal.

Highly skilled players, mobile mid height players, minimal slow key position players - it changes the dynamics and ordinary hulking rucks or key forwards might disappear from the game unles they have the skills of a Carey.

 

[Al Bundy]

Its interesting that many in the media & around the traps have been complaining about the FLOOD. But as soon as we play keepings off to draw out the flood to play man on man, the complaints start again. The only other way to break the flood is to play super fast & long bomb on the rebound, but we lacked in that area yesterday. Huge calls were made to try to stop players kicking backwards by making it play on. IMO thats a joke.

Syndey got critised so badly last year BUT they won the Grand Final. So who had the last laugh.

I find it interesting, especially coming from past coaches or players that they carry on, especially Shaw & Frawley. They struggled to find new game plans to implement to suit a particular a game against an opposition yet struggle with what Wallace did yesterday.

Walls on the other hand was beside himself with delight seeing this come off throughout his commentary which was pleasing to see & contually argued the merits of what was happening with his co-hots. Thank God it wasn't Commetti or Brereton. Even Neil Craig loved it and claimed he had done it to others & it was a challenge to try to alter a game plan to counter it.

Last week when Sydney flooded so badly, nothing was said, they just looked at the result & praised them.

Its quite simple in my book, there are alot of media people out there that feed of the carcus of the RFC & pray for a loss to make $$$ of negative reporting & disgruntled supporters who are not wiser & get roped in. The more media people (radio & papers) that whinge when we win the better I feel. :hihi

 

[Rayzorwire]

We'll have the rest of the league worried now, they know on any given day give us three goals start and we can make life very difficult. The beauty is that it is such a precise plan as long as our entry into 50 hits a target we'll be a chance to score everytime.

Yep, could also backfire on us Cogs...have teams come out absolutely pumped to ensure we don't get ahead early...knowing the game is on the line in the first 10 minutes could well change the opposition mindset considerably.

 

[Tony Braxton-Hicks]

I expect we'll see a rule change next year. Play on if you kick backwards.

 

[JR8]

I expect we'll see a rule change next year. Play on if you kick backwards.

thats crap. What happens if you mark the ball say near the boundary line on an impossible angle and you kick it backwards to a player in better position a little further out? Do you then call play on??

That rule would open up a whole new can of worms.

Or what happens if you try and kick the ball sideways and the wind takes it a little backwards, do you then call play on?

This rule will only make an umpires job that much more difficult.

They're already struggling as it is!!

 

[GoodOne]

I expect we'll see a rule change next year. Play on if you kick backwards.

thats crap. What happens if you mark the ball say near the boundary line on an impossible angle and you kick it backwards to a player in better position a little further out? Do you then call play on??

That rule would open up a whole new can of worms.

Or what happens if you try and kick the ball sideways and the wind takes it a little backwards, do you then call play on?

This rule will only make an umpires job that much more difficult.

They're already struggling as it is!!

Crap as it may sound I reckon they will be thinking long and hard about it as they have already done. Maybe no kicking backwards inside the defensive 50m arc. I mean making it hard for umpires doesnt appear to be an issue previously. Take the shot clock rule for example. There's not even a clock for umpires to refer to when trying to adjudicate on that rule.

Cheers