Our ladder position is getting closer to where I think we are in the comp. Before the bye I reckoned we deserved to be around eleventh with teams below us at that time clearly playing much better footy.
Where good teams pass the ball around quickly and get run going, or take possession and then build a slow play, when we get the ball we appear to either dispose of it in a panic or look like worry warts, hold it up and then kick to a pack near the perceived safety of the boundary.
The "first option" seems to be ignored over and over again. A simple hand pass to a nearby player with his hands up for the ball is typically ignored in preference for a bomb down the line.
How to fix? When you get the ball "quickly" look around and pass the ball to the first best option.
I know. Its very basic. But the players in the better teams seem to do this even when under extreme pressure. Quickly look for the best option and dispose of the ball.
How to get out of the hole?
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Scollop
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Re: How to get out of the hole?
More fantasy points and dream time points with metres gained. You don’t get that handballing to a team mate and retaining possession
It looks good on the stat sheet when you have 400 metres gained against your name…didn’t you know that?
It looks good on the stat sheet when you have 400 metres gained against your name…didn’t you know that?
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Re: How to get out of the hole?
Need to stop playing for 50s
Need to get back from the man on the mark before assessing what you do - that way of you get called to play on you have more than a step before you are tackled.
Need to lead, lead, lead
Need to get back from the man on the mark before assessing what you do - that way of you get called to play on you have more than a step before you are tackled.
Need to lead, lead, lead
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Re: How to get out of the hole?
We may be transitioning to the stage of grief where the Board commission's a review.
The same players in the same positions under the same coaches doesn't seem to be the answer, indeed they appear to be digging the hole furiously bigger, but individually and in separate directions.
Thing is, who is going to yell out: enough of this rubbish. We have to reset. We have transitioning CEOs, no footy boss?, coach that is at his wits end and cannot get a handle on the team's performances. What could he say post match - you guys are awful? Sydney already made that point.
If only out of kindness to all concerned the way may need to be a good old fashioned review with the standard ambiguous and implied conditional interim support for the coach. Heads will role, but that's inevitable now anyway, so better to try to manage the car crash scene than let the media trample all over it and have disillusioned fans abandoning the club on mass. (Not us, but some may take the current fall from top 4 to bottom 4 hard; harder if we don't quickly find a scapegoat - possibly M. Finnis, he is expendable now.)
The same players in the same positions under the same coaches doesn't seem to be the answer, indeed they appear to be digging the hole furiously bigger, but individually and in separate directions.
Thing is, who is going to yell out: enough of this rubbish. We have to reset. We have transitioning CEOs, no footy boss?, coach that is at his wits end and cannot get a handle on the team's performances. What could he say post match - you guys are awful? Sydney already made that point.
If only out of kindness to all concerned the way may need to be a good old fashioned review with the standard ambiguous and implied conditional interim support for the coach. Heads will role, but that's inevitable now anyway, so better to try to manage the car crash scene than let the media trample all over it and have disillusioned fans abandoning the club on mass. (Not us, but some may take the current fall from top 4 to bottom 4 hard; harder if we don't quickly find a scapegoat - possibly M. Finnis, he is expendable now.)