You are right PJ, I am not defending so much as interpreting. The directive in the box changed, for whatever reason, I was just confirming that the instruction was there.PJ wrote:I can appreciate what you are saying about lines being blurred SK. For me the call to get it in quick and long is not an abondonment of the gameplan so much as a specific intstruction resulting from a specific situation - last 5 minutes urgency!! Should a team that has a gameplan be so inflexible as to not be able to adjust to any circumstance. If we were ahead and the call was to go backwards and hold the play up - is that not a deviation from the gameplan?
Suggesting that Lyon went into panic rather than responded to the immediate situation is as I have stated a response that comes from the realm of the ego.
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Didn't we very nearly win the Grand Final with minimal output from Riewoldt?samoht wrote:The Dogs will do well whether Hall stands up or not - they are an even team - their goals also come from running midfielders.
Whereas there is nothing even about us in the finals - we will need Roo again, you can see that from now.
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Why I love this site.degruch wrote:I beg your pardon? How dare you suggest I'm incapable of breeding!markp wrote:Kindly refrain from being infantile.degruch wrote:NAH MATE...KICK IT LONG...KICK IT LONG...AAAARRRRGH, FARKING RALF CLAAARK...HE'S CRAP!!!
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you see all that from your kitchenette in the flat?rodgerfox wrote:Obviously it happens when there is no one up forward to kick to. That's just common sense.markp wrote:
What you cant see on TV is that he does that because there is no one forward to kick it to....
But it happens alot of the time also when our attacking structures are still in place.
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Let's not forget who got us into the grand final in the first place.dcstkfc wrote:
Didn't we very nearly win the Grand Final with minimal output from Riewoldt?
Let's talk in % terms - for the sake of argument.
The way I see it -
There's only 1% separating the top 3 or 4 teams but our over-reliance on Riewoldt means we need Riewoldt to make up 10%.
Riewoldt won't always make that 10% difference - and if he's rendered ineffective we are up to 9% behind the other top 3 teams due to our over-reliance on him.
He wasn't completely ineffective in the grand final but he could only make up 5% let's say - so we were 4% short of the Cats.
Kosi could be that effective marking decoy we need and take the focus away from Riewoldt if he could just hold more of the marks he keeps dropping.
Wouldn't we be better off if we only relied on Riewoldt to make up 6% difference and the other 4% could come from Kosi's improvement or by finding/developing another effective mid sized forward ? .. instead of continously needing the 10% from Riewoldt especially in the finals?