Give Us Your Trap To Avoid in 2008
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Give Us Your Trap To Avoid in 2008
What are the traps to avoid for 2008?
Last season, i reckon we beat ourselves more often than the opposition did...obviously by playing poor footy. But the reason for this poor footy was that we kept falling into self-made traps...poor footy habits if you will.
Part of this relates to a new style of game...both us and the opposition...this can confuse players and have them do things they think are right just because everyone else is doing them or because they've misunderstood what they're supposed to be doing...
It's basically what happens to young teams and why they generally struggle...because they lack leadership.
I noted almost weekly last year how bad we were for leadership on the field...having a gun like Ball struggling to play let alone lead is a good way to sap your leadership....
Basically, you can get a downward spiral where a drop in leadership causes poor play which causes a loss which affects the whole team which causes poor play, poor leadership etc etc...
Anyway, in order to try get a decent list going of bad footy habits we showed in 2007 and should avoid in 2008, i thought we should get as many people as possible to contribute.
It could be a good way to see where we went wrong and also a good tool we could use to measure how much we learned and improved over pre-season as the season approaches.
Play On For the Sake of it:
We did this a lot last year, possibly in an attempt to speed our ball movement up. problem was that we didn't always have options to kick to further afield so we had to back pedal, muck around with the ball, put people under pressure and eventually turn it over.
Last season, i reckon we beat ourselves more often than the opposition did...obviously by playing poor footy. But the reason for this poor footy was that we kept falling into self-made traps...poor footy habits if you will.
Part of this relates to a new style of game...both us and the opposition...this can confuse players and have them do things they think are right just because everyone else is doing them or because they've misunderstood what they're supposed to be doing...
It's basically what happens to young teams and why they generally struggle...because they lack leadership.
I noted almost weekly last year how bad we were for leadership on the field...having a gun like Ball struggling to play let alone lead is a good way to sap your leadership....
Basically, you can get a downward spiral where a drop in leadership causes poor play which causes a loss which affects the whole team which causes poor play, poor leadership etc etc...
Anyway, in order to try get a decent list going of bad footy habits we showed in 2007 and should avoid in 2008, i thought we should get as many people as possible to contribute.
It could be a good way to see where we went wrong and also a good tool we could use to measure how much we learned and improved over pre-season as the season approaches.
Play On For the Sake of it:
We did this a lot last year, possibly in an attempt to speed our ball movement up. problem was that we didn't always have options to kick to further afield so we had to back pedal, muck around with the ball, put people under pressure and eventually turn it over.
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Re: Give Us Your Trap To Avoid in 2008
one of our ruckmen is injured so we decide to patch the ruck division up by throwing kosi back in there
... thereby robbing ourselves of one of our surest avenues to goal and the focus of many forward moves
definitely a trap to avoid
... thereby robbing ourselves of one of our surest avenues to goal and the focus of many forward moves
definitely a trap to avoid
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it was never selective kicking to riewoldt...as in, the kicker had plenty of options and kept choosing rooIce Wolf wrote:Kicking it to Reiwolt was a trap we fell into a lot last year he aint the best finisher.
it was always that roo was the only player working hard enough to present as an option
i'd rather keep kicking to the same bloke who is actually an option than kick it to nobody
everyone else needs to work harder to present
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Traps:
Thinking that winning the NAD Cup is the premiership
Thinking that Fraser can kick 100
Thinking that without a squad of 10 decent mid fielders we can win it
Not committing 100%, 100% of the time
Thinking that the GF is at the TD
Thinking your top 6 win a game when it is your bottom 6
Thinking that number of forward entries wins you games when it is the efficiency of entries that does
Expecting our new recruits or young guys like Geary to make all the difference
Thinking injuries won't occur
Thinking most people on this forum know anything much......but enjoying it anyway....
Thinking that winning the NAD Cup is the premiership
Thinking that Fraser can kick 100
Thinking that without a squad of 10 decent mid fielders we can win it
Not committing 100%, 100% of the time
Thinking that the GF is at the TD
Thinking your top 6 win a game when it is your bottom 6
Thinking that number of forward entries wins you games when it is the efficiency of entries that does
Expecting our new recruits or young guys like Geary to make all the difference
Thinking injuries won't occur
Thinking most people on this forum know anything much......but enjoying it anyway....
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