Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
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Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
Last qtr near the end, one of the last Weagles' goals came from this event:
Jimmy Webster, with nobody within 15m of him, swooped onto a loose ball.
Crowd noise, whatever, he had no awareness of who was nearby.
Rather than gather, look up and kick or handball,
delivered a panic off-the-ground soccer kick to nobody, that landed 40m away,
straight into the arms of an Eagle.
There was a waiting arc of 6 -8 eagles players at that exact distance, and none of our guys anywhere nearby.
As if it was a set play from the WCE, when the loose ball was in our backline.
The instruction from WCE may have been:
"When Saints are under pressure down back, they just kick blindly, so set up 40m away"
The arc of Eagles reminded me of a David Attenborough wildlife movie-
a bunch of killer whales waiting for penguins to slide off an ice floe,
or a bunch of dolphins herding a school of tuna into the shallows.
I know I will be abused, yelled at and villified,
but I know what the hell I saw,
and it means that we are not going to win any close games if the guys simply kick wildly in hope like a child in an under-11 game.
Kick and hope.
Any personal attacks on me will just prove the lack of intelligence of the poster playing the man and not the ball.
Jimmy Webster, with nobody within 15m of him, swooped onto a loose ball.
Crowd noise, whatever, he had no awareness of who was nearby.
Rather than gather, look up and kick or handball,
delivered a panic off-the-ground soccer kick to nobody, that landed 40m away,
straight into the arms of an Eagle.
There was a waiting arc of 6 -8 eagles players at that exact distance, and none of our guys anywhere nearby.
As if it was a set play from the WCE, when the loose ball was in our backline.
The instruction from WCE may have been:
"When Saints are under pressure down back, they just kick blindly, so set up 40m away"
The arc of Eagles reminded me of a David Attenborough wildlife movie-
a bunch of killer whales waiting for penguins to slide off an ice floe,
or a bunch of dolphins herding a school of tuna into the shallows.
I know I will be abused, yelled at and villified,
but I know what the hell I saw,
and it means that we are not going to win any close games if the guys simply kick wildly in hope like a child in an under-11 game.
Kick and hope.
Any personal attacks on me will just prove the lack of intelligence of the poster playing the man and not the ball.
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
Just poor play by Jimmy
Not a set plan, how would they predict a soccer? A normal practice would be to take possession
Not a set plan, how would they predict a soccer? A normal practice would be to take possession
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
He did it in the first quarter as well.
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
We might have been practicing kicking off the ground rather than picking the ball up in certain situations, I noticed it a bit in the JLT as well. Might be a way around the stricter holding the ball intepretation, but I don't think it should be attempted in the defensive 50. Too risky to just boot the ball off the ground without really looking.
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
The one in the first quarter was a shocker. Autumn leaves is not up to it, but is one of AR's favourites.
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
Was fuming at the first quarter soccer kick by Webster, that was a massive goal that we gifted with an extremely poor decision. Easily could have picked up and hacked it if he needed to and put an extra 30 on the ball.
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
The grouping of blue n gold was the shape of the crescent moon, evenly spacedBigMart wrote:Just poor play by Jimmy
Not a set plan, how would they predict a soccer? A normal practice would be to take possession
15m berween each Coker.
Similar to cricket training, guy with bat hitting ball to each guy in the arc.
Just happened to be that shape?
Deliberate positioning, or in coach-speak, "structure" perhaps?
If you have time, have another look.
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
Where should we look?WellardSaint wrote:The grouping of blue n gold was the shape of the crescent moon, evenly spacedBigMart wrote:Just poor play by Jimmy
Not a set plan, how would they predict a soccer? A normal practice would be to take possession
15m berween each Coker.
Similar to cricket training, guy with bat hitting ball to each guy in the arc.
Just happened to be that shape?
Deliberate positioning, or in coach-speak, "structure" perhaps?
If you have time, have another look.
It didn't happen in the last quarter. Are you talking about the incident in the first quarter?
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
What, building a wall at 50
You even do that in under 14s
Or were they on the way down there to apply frontal pressure, press??
It was just a bad error by Jimmy... how the hell could they know he was going to soccer it 25m ... normally you'd take possession
You even do that in under 14s
Or were they on the way down there to apply frontal pressure, press??
It was just a bad error by Jimmy... how the hell could they know he was going to soccer it 25m ... normally you'd take possession
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
Every young back man under constant pressure stuffs up. Get over your constant bagging it's not going to change things AR is not listening....What about that spoil in the last quarter from Webster bloody amazing....Constant whining from someone embarrassed to wear the colours to a game.WellardSaint wrote:Last qtr near the end, one of the last Weagles' goals came from this event:
Jimmy Webster, with nobody within 15m of him, swooped onto a loose ball.
Crowd noise, whatever, he had no awareness of who was nearby.
Rather than gather, look up and kick or handball,
delivered a panic off-the-ground soccer kick to nobody, that landed 40m away,
straight into the arms of an Eagle.
There was a waiting arc of 6 -8 eagles players at that exact distance, and none of our guys anywhere nearby.
As if it was a set play from the WCE, when the loose ball was in our backline.
The instruction from WCE may have been:
"When Saints are under pressure down back, they just kick blindly, so set up 40m away"
The arc of Eagles reminded me of a David Attenborough wildlife movie-
a bunch of killer whales waiting for penguins to slide off an ice floe,
or a bunch of dolphins herding a school of tuna into the shallows.
I know I will be abused, yelled at and villified,
but I know what the hell I saw,
and it means that we are not going to win any close games if the guys simply kick wildly in hope like a child in an under-11 game.
Kick and hope.
Any personal attacks on me will just prove the lack of intelligence of the poster playing the man and not the ball.
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
Agree
We have Carlisle who will be an absolute bonus, Brown who is honest ahead of being able to assess Goddard then Roberton and Gilbert both 194cm with rebounding skills - and then problems in regard an assessment of "damaging out of the back half"
We have Carlisle who will be an absolute bonus, Brown who is honest ahead of being able to assess Goddard then Roberton and Gilbert both 194cm with rebounding skills - and then problems in regard an assessment of "damaging out of the back half"
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Re: Poor defensive clearance in last qtr
Not sure what whinging does. Kick the cat instead.
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