In the light of all the recent floggings, its...
Interesting to look at the winning margins agains bottom teams (which quite a few of our recent wins have come against) and compare those to what the winning margins of collingwood, geelong, carlton, hawthorn are.....
Those sides are really able to nail weak opposition and make them pay because of superior skills.....we on the other hand comfortably beat weak opponents, but (adelaide aside) rarely have a ten to twenty goal win..
Doesnt necessarily mean that if
Geelong beat port by 100
And
We beat port by 50
That geelong are 50 to the good against us
We have better defensive mechanisms, but deliver less quality ball going fwd......and dont always capitalise on any dominance we may have..
We have the ability to keep sides in the game, regardless of being on top in general play....by not getting more than 3 or 4 goals up too often....if momentum changes, we can be vulnerable to letting margins dwindle...
When
Collingwood, hawthorn, geelong, carlton get on top....they hit the scoreboard hard.....generally we just make it impossible for oppositions to score when we are on top...
Winning margins
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SaintPav
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Correct. If someone said 3 months ago that we would win 9 out of the next 11 and we would be sixth with a chance to play the firts final in Melb (maybe even at the Dome), how would you have felt?Old Mate wrote:Well yeah, the teams you mentioned are better than the Saints this year. That's the reality. We're sitting 6th on the ladder and that's about where we should be.
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I agree. Not surprising. You even look for a negative even when one isnt there. Now we know results because of how 2 sides went against the same opposition. Makes very little or even no sense at all. By the way great one, How will we go this week and what mistakes will the coaching panel make?BigMart wrote:Not surprising....
Just oppose it anyway....
Or would you like me to explain the obvious.....
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Allowing mayne to dictate the match up with goddard...Goddard, would have lost him through the middle or had a different opponent fwd...
It was very clear cut
Centre square set up in second qtr
Kosi not rotating in the third
Anyway
Point of the thread.....other teams have absolutely smashed teams we have not.....And how we can be better by quite a margin, but not always win by a much of a margin
Wonder if you have caught a collingwood, carlton, geelong game lately....
It sort of proves the theory that we are a defensively minded team....not a negative post, more an observation
Freo in melbourne without thier 1st and 3rd best players......not a difficult assignment
It was very clear cut
Centre square set up in second qtr
Kosi not rotating in the third
Anyway
Point of the thread.....other teams have absolutely smashed teams we have not.....And how we can be better by quite a margin, but not always win by a much of a margin
Wonder if you have caught a collingwood, carlton, geelong game lately....
It sort of proves the theory that we are a defensively minded team....not a negative post, more an observation
Freo in melbourne without thier 1st and 3rd best players......not a difficult assignment
Why didnt Harvey move Pav or or put Ballantyne on the ball for a while. Must have been out coached by RL. Not a positive post just an observation. It was very clear cut but of course you would know that.BigMart wrote:Allowing mayne to dictate the match up with goddard...Goddard, would have lost him through the middle or had a different opponent fwd...
It was very clear cut
Centre square set up in second qtr
Kosi not rotating in the third
Anyway
Point of the thread.....other teams have absolutely smashed teams we have not.....And how we can be better by quite a margin, but not always win by a much of a margin
Wonder if you have caught a collingwood, carlton, geelong game lately....
It sort of proves the theory that we are a defensively minded team....not a negative post, more an observation
Freo in melbourne without thier 1st and 3rd best players......not a difficult assignment
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Geelong was racking up huge scores in '92, including the all-time record score of 239. Had a massive percentage (145% by season's end). Still got cleaned up in the Grand Final by a highly defensive, superbly drilled Eagles outfit. (The Eagles had finished fourth that year after losing the previous year's GF.)
Lesson to the Saints: high scoring becomes a rhythm and if you disrupt the rhythm, you disorientate the team.
Lesson to the Saints: high scoring becomes a rhythm and if you disrupt the rhythm, you disorientate the team.
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Correct! Saints do this the best.