Someone explain Blake's Thought Process

Thinline · Post: # 1051862Post **Thinline** » Sat 26 Mar 2011 8:45am

bobmurray wrote:welcome to saints footy.....

What, exactly, do you mean?

Wrote for Luck · Sat 26 Mar 2011 9:22am

I think a few of us got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Armitage played a pretty good game in my opinion. Laid two crunching tackles right in front of us. That was the highlight of my night.
Many players were on the quiet side tonight, let's not throw teddy into the corner quite so fast.

barks4eva · Post: # 1052105Post **barks4eva** » Sat 26 Mar 2011 3:43pm

50 seconds to go and Blake plays on, centres the ball and turns it over

even had an option wider with a player unattended

cost us 4 points right there in possibly an 8 point game for top 4

suss · Post: # 1052123Post **suss** » Sat 26 Mar 2011 4:28pm

Gotta feel sorry for the Blake...totally lost his marbles with 50 seconds on the clock. It went against everything we've tried to do over the past 4 years. Can you imagine how many times Ross will show this to the team in the match review?

AnythingsPossibleSaints · Sat 26 Mar 2011 4:33pm

To be fair to Blake, what he did is clearly more in line with the game style they're trying to play now (ie. moving it on more quickly), but he just chose a poor time to do it.

QuestionOfAccuracy · Sat 26 Mar 2011 4:38pm

millarsaint wrote: Armitage played a pretty good game in my opinion. Laid two crunching tackles right in front of us. That was the highlight of my night.

Hang on. Two crunching tackles does not mean he had a pretty good game. He had 11 disposals and 5 tackles. 11 disposals for an in-and-under midfielder is substandard. He's gotta' lift. Mind you, he wasn't the only one that was substandard last night.

AnythingsPossibleSaints · Sat 26 Mar 2011 4:42pm

Only problem with that is that he played mostly if not solely in the forward line. 11 possies up forward isn't the worst thing ever.

Sainternist · Sat 26 Mar 2011 4:57pm

A terrible error. He knows he farked up. It seems slightly unfair for him to be the only player to have to wear goat horns though. We had at least 15 players who also played very pedestrian football last night. If most of your team isn't switched on it's more than likely you'll lose.

Perhaps it's actually not a bad sign if the team plays this poorly, yet only loses by a point?

Longwayfromhome · Sat 26 Mar 2011 9:01pm

Stuffed up big time. Nothing like the two goals from eleven shots in the first half.
First game of the season and we lost. Big deal.
If we are only going to score six goal a game we won't win many more.
More brain fades coming.

oh when · Post: # 1052411Post **oh when** » Sun 27 Mar 2011 9:15am

Where was our runner telling Blake there was 50 seconds left or other players telling him to slow it down

Dr Spaceman · Sun 27 Mar 2011 10:26am

Longwayfromhome wrote:Stuffed up big time. Nothing like the two goals from eleven shots in the first half.
First game of the season and we lost. Big deal.
If we are only going to score six goal a game we won't win many more.
More brain fades coming.

Spot on.

No need to worry about Blake's thought process. He simply made a mistake at the very end of a hard first up slog.

Cost us the game however if we eradicate that mistake and do nothing else there'll be a lot more losses coming up.

Thinline · Post: # 1052424Post **Thinline** » Sun 27 Mar 2011 10:46am

Let me illustrate Blake's thought process by reference to the following diagram:

There you have it.

Dr Spaceman · Sun 27 Mar 2011 10:48am

Thinline wrote:Let me illustrate Blake's thought process by reference to the following diagram:

There you have it.

Is that a set play?

Someone explain Blake's Thought Process

Where was our runner/leaders