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Who is the backline coach?

RUNVS

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Whoever the DILL is, needs to show them how to "SMILING" man up, even my wife who knows Jack Shizenhousin about football said the same thing. RANCE is just too loose. Moore is overrated, too many skill errors. Well Done Dean Polo. I thought u had a great game.
 
We play a zone. That's terry's gameplan. We don't have people who pick up players until they start kickign the ball from a ball up etc.

The problem is, we turn it over going up the ground cause there's no one to kick to, then we're all out of position when the ball comes back the other way.

Hopefully the knew coach p!sses off this Hawthorn copycat crap, and we go man on man. That goes for everyone, including our captain.

The backline coach though is David King.
 
Jordan McMahon is as loose as someone that swallowed a box of laxettes.
 
The backline was woeful, but so too was the mid field in not working back hard and quick enough. Lids, Foley etc were terrible in that regard.
 
I thought Moore was good in the backline last year :help

Why did it need shuffling?!

Small forwards were the guys that caused us the most trouble.
 
RUNVS said:
RANCE is just too loose.

You can't really tell with Rance because as The General says, we have been playing a zone. The killer for Rance is that we constantly turn the ball over between half back and half forward, and have it coming back in at a million miles an hour. Rance is a naturally attacking player with the pace and ability to develop into an excellent rebounding defender. But when we turn the ball over, it is precisely because of these abilities that he is often made to pay. Because he moves forward much more quickly than the other defenders, he is further out of position when it comes back.

Rance would really benefit from a gameplan which requires one on one accountability, where he can expose his opponent with his rebound.
 
This is where Wallace has been well and truly sorted out by the other 15 coaches.

I watched the backline movements during the last quarter, esp Newman, McGuane and Polo. As soon as we won the ball, they would bolt towards the forward line, trying to become extra numbers up forward and in the corridor. All well and good, except their opponents know what they are looking to do and hang back. There were times when Bowden and Thursfield would the only ones home across the wings, with up to five oppponents within 40 m of them. When the turnover comes, a goal results.

So easy to play the Tigers now. Flood your backline, absorb the pressure until they turn it over and run them silly on the way back.

First two quarters they played more or less man on man. Did the caretaker control things for the first half? It sure looked like it.

Wallace has been undone by the fast break. Oldest Basketball trick in the book.