parkeysainter wrote:Agree to disagree then.
The ball won't magically float into the forward line on its own or move from one end of the ground to the other. Just glad our blokes are actually getting the footy to begin with and the efficiency is actually ok. Heaven forbid!
As I said. Conversion and game plan does need to improve.
Part of the improved game plan should include less s*** handballs and less backwards and sideways kicks - so less disposals.
Collingwood do the same thing as us. Faff around with it and refuse to attack the corridor - simply begging the opposition to force a turn over.
The real reason we have so many disposals is we are afraid to kick it to a contest - because we know we will probably lose it or we are such poor kicks we cant kick to advantage. Or both.
The game versus Sydney really hammered this home for me.
http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2017/18/syd-v-stk
We had 402 disposals to their 360 but they absolutely slaughtered us.
So no - tweaking the game plan and kicking straight is not the problem.
They kicked 14.17 to our 9.5 that night.
So your hypothesis is bunkum. High disposals are simply meaningless.
We had 402 disposals and only 37 inside 50s.
They had 42 less disposals but managed 28 more inside 50s!
Just think about that for a minute.