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What grindes my gears
- Thread starter hellenictiger
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What really grinds my gears....this correlling the ball carrier, absolutely hate it.
Whenever an umpire calls play on, the bloke standing the mark has to apply pressure to the ball carrier, not sort of stand (correll) in nowhere land. Absolutely sh!ts me! >
Whenever an umpire calls play on, the bloke standing the mark has to apply pressure to the ball carrier, not sort of stand (correll) in nowhere land. Absolutely sh!ts me! >
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Bill James
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What grinds my gears is players focussing on a free they were expecting rather than getting on with the game. I noticed 2 of our players do it on Sunday and while they were throwing themselves around pleading their case North got the ball and kept playing.
I hate the smell of the horses poo when the cavalary rides in. General Custer is starting to get up my nose.
lisamaree said:What really grinds my gears....this correlling the ball carrier, absolutely hate it.
Whenever an umpire calls play on, the bloke standing the mark has to apply pressure to the ball carrier, not sort of stand (correll) in nowhere land. Absolutely sh!ts me! >
It six to one half a dozen to the other.
When you correll, you try and stop the switch of play or the handball over the top that stops the creation of play.
Or you take a risk and run for the tackle/ to put pressure on and pop over your head it goes and they have the overlap, but you may get lucky and tackle the ball carrier. Sometimes the ball carrier waits for the correller to come forward.
Its not as easy as it looks.
How do you stop it? Make sure your the ball carrier, not the guy stuck in the middle ;D
Ok, today what really grindes my gears is sprawling.
Thangod Gary Lyon mentioned it last night. It is so easy to do and its the first thing you think of when getting tackled, just fall fowrd, drop the feet, force your body forward, take a little impact and you have a free kick. The tackler does not get rewarded.
I thought there were two differences between the two teams, dodgy first quarter umpiring aside.
1. They won the battle in the midfield until Deledio (and Raines to a lesser extent) made us a bit more competitive.
2. They were able to keep possession of the ball because they always had someone prepared to run the 20m or so required to get away from a zoning defender. This meant they always had a short option or two to release pressure. Our guys just didn't work as hard when we had the ball and the ball-carrier was forced to kick long under pressure, straight to CHF where Richo was up against 3 or 4. What was required was hard running and patience to break down their flood.
As much as the "kick-it-long" fraternity hate it, possession of the ball is the single most effective strategy that a team has available to it, esp if they are ahead on the scoreboard. The North game plan once they were four goals up was really simple- win the ball and keep it, make them come and get it. Add in their superiority at the centre bounce and we were always in trouble.
The only team that I have seen consistently break down the possession game is Geelong. They play at breakneck speed to beat the flood and have the skills to do it. They don't kick long to a one-on-four like we do, they run the ball very quickly from defence with handball, hard-running and precision. They are playing the same game, just much faster. They usually start very well too, and this forces the opposition to take risks to get back into the game, which they exploit.
The single biggest issue for our team is not skill-it is work ethic. We don't have enough players who are prepared to present for the short option repeatedly. Guys like Tambling, McMahon, Hyde, Foley, Deledio, Raines, King, Tuck, Jackson etc should be running up and down the ground far more than they do.
1. They won the battle in the midfield until Deledio (and Raines to a lesser extent) made us a bit more competitive.
2. They were able to keep possession of the ball because they always had someone prepared to run the 20m or so required to get away from a zoning defender. This meant they always had a short option or two to release pressure. Our guys just didn't work as hard when we had the ball and the ball-carrier was forced to kick long under pressure, straight to CHF where Richo was up against 3 or 4. What was required was hard running and patience to break down their flood.
As much as the "kick-it-long" fraternity hate it, possession of the ball is the single most effective strategy that a team has available to it, esp if they are ahead on the scoreboard. The North game plan once they were four goals up was really simple- win the ball and keep it, make them come and get it. Add in their superiority at the centre bounce and we were always in trouble.
The only team that I have seen consistently break down the possession game is Geelong. They play at breakneck speed to beat the flood and have the skills to do it. They don't kick long to a one-on-four like we do, they run the ball very quickly from defence with handball, hard-running and precision. They are playing the same game, just much faster. They usually start very well too, and this forces the opposition to take risks to get back into the game, which they exploit.
The single biggest issue for our team is not skill-it is work ethic. We don't have enough players who are prepared to present for the short option repeatedly. Guys like Tambling, McMahon, Hyde, Foley, Deledio, Raines, King, Tuck, Jackson etc should be running up and down the ground far more than they do.
