There’s one thing that has irked me for years and years and that’s bombing the ball in with no vision at all, can work if there’s 1 on 1 or 3 on 3, but when theirs 10 onto 3 or even 4 on 2 it rarely works and it happened on thurs especially in that last Qtr time after time...
You couldn’t see this on TV properly but the pies flooded back hard and in big numbers, the problem was everytime we brought the ball out beautifully from the backline and we reached just over the center square we found ourselves in a maze, 2nd guessing ourselves either by handballing to an almost stationary player sideways or backwards and getting into more trouble (think we can alleviate this problem when we can chip a short 15 meters to hold on to the ball or have our fwds run harder and present "outside the 50 meter arc" ala travis cloke and mark on the lead) the other was our players looking up and seeing black and white everywhere in our 50 meter arc, so what do we eventually do as theirs no options on the 50 meter line or just outside it we just bomb it deep in our fwd 50 time after time and they take it away time after time as they had double the numbers we had, too easy! Happened to many times for my liking...
You could see within the 50 meter arc or in simpler terms about 35 to 40 meters out from our goals that 10 to 12 players (min) flooding the area IE: setting up a zone wall, where this zone can be beaten and the bulldogs did this some years ago successfully, when the flood which it was more known then instructed there players to not bomb in the fwd 50 when looking up fwd and seeing a sea of opposition colours, they instructed some of their fwds to be on the fwd 50 arc, this ploy had midfielders knowing that if they kicked short they would have options which even though they marked 50 to 55 meters out they almost always after that chipped again in the fwd 50 to a marking player leading out to about 35 to 45 meters out from goal, this ploy by the dogs i remember time after time they found themselves shooting for goal, yes this can lead to missed shots from that distance but id rather that then bomb it to a 8 onto 2 or 3 contest and the opposition just take it away....
I was so frustrated i thought why on earth just bomb it deep into the fwd line when there’s a 3 onto 1 contest and sometimes more as mentioned above when the pies had up to 12 players flooding the fwd area....This is when footy smarts come into play because if a player chips in the fwd 50 onto a leading fwd 9 times out of 10 a fwd on the lead will beat his opponent with a mark on the chest or receive a free for too high or a push in the back, better odds passing to a leading player on the lead than just bombing it and hoping...
Ahh but im just a footy lover/observer what do i know? Leave it to the coaches to work it out :headscratch
You couldn’t see this on TV properly but the pies flooded back hard and in big numbers, the problem was everytime we brought the ball out beautifully from the backline and we reached just over the center square we found ourselves in a maze, 2nd guessing ourselves either by handballing to an almost stationary player sideways or backwards and getting into more trouble (think we can alleviate this problem when we can chip a short 15 meters to hold on to the ball or have our fwds run harder and present "outside the 50 meter arc" ala travis cloke and mark on the lead) the other was our players looking up and seeing black and white everywhere in our 50 meter arc, so what do we eventually do as theirs no options on the 50 meter line or just outside it we just bomb it deep in our fwd 50 time after time and they take it away time after time as they had double the numbers we had, too easy! Happened to many times for my liking...
You could see within the 50 meter arc or in simpler terms about 35 to 40 meters out from our goals that 10 to 12 players (min) flooding the area IE: setting up a zone wall, where this zone can be beaten and the bulldogs did this some years ago successfully, when the flood which it was more known then instructed there players to not bomb in the fwd 50 when looking up fwd and seeing a sea of opposition colours, they instructed some of their fwds to be on the fwd 50 arc, this ploy had midfielders knowing that if they kicked short they would have options which even though they marked 50 to 55 meters out they almost always after that chipped again in the fwd 50 to a marking player leading out to about 35 to 45 meters out from goal, this ploy by the dogs i remember time after time they found themselves shooting for goal, yes this can lead to missed shots from that distance but id rather that then bomb it to a 8 onto 2 or 3 contest and the opposition just take it away....
I was so frustrated i thought why on earth just bomb it deep into the fwd line when there’s a 3 onto 1 contest and sometimes more as mentioned above when the pies had up to 12 players flooding the fwd area....This is when footy smarts come into play because if a player chips in the fwd 50 onto a leading fwd 9 times out of 10 a fwd on the lead will beat his opponent with a mark on the chest or receive a free for too high or a push in the back, better odds passing to a leading player on the lead than just bombing it and hoping...
Ahh but im just a footy lover/observer what do i know? Leave it to the coaches to work it out :headscratch
