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Watching a P2P stream from France which is coming from the US and the forum is about 3 minutes before I get the vision so I am sitting here waiting for X to goal for a couple of minutes
32 pts down at half time. Not looking good. Bartel on track for 40 possessions, and no semblance of a forward structure. Roo having an off day, and not sticking tackles. Pies at the G next week looking more and more likely.
The Saints have gone back in their shell, playing reactionary football to gellong. We are looking for "safe" passes rather than hard running forward movements. The thing that impresses me about the pussies is in contested situations we are happy to get a stoppage ball up, they keep the ball alive & steal possession at all costs.
The distrubing thing is that we are 51 possessions down at half time. That is the equivalent of 4 or 5 extra midfielders. They have had 17 scroing shots. We've had 5!
Their midfield is running riot - no wonder we don't look like it ! Any chance we could just shut down a couple of their guns - a better defensive (forwards and midfielders) effort this final might see us get some credibility back.
Would Birss been worse than Mini ? Hmmmm
derby Street wrote:Their midfield is running riot - no wonder we don't look like it ! Any chance we could just shut down a couple of their guns - a better defensive (forwards and midfielders) effort this final might see us get some credibility back.
Would Birss been worse than Mini ? Hmmmm
They're awsome through the midfield - we cannot get a tackle to stick.
Considering the amount of inside 50's they've had it is amazing we aren't further behind.
Even when we hold them for a time - we seem to concentrate so much on this that we do not look like scoring ourselves. An opputunistic snap from Milne, a free kick from X and a good mark from Schneider is simply not good enough.
I would clear out deep in the atacking 50 leaving Roo and Milne/Schneids there and try to form a wall across the centre of the ground. The way Geelong are pushing back to double/triple team our talls mean we have no hope. (If it were Sydney or Saints doing this they would call it flooding). Then bottle up the middle of the gound.
Hopefully we could get some running goals from on 50 then. Otherwise it's the pies next week.