Master stroke

bigcarl · Post: # 1130608Post **bigcarl** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:00pm

Putting Dawson to full forward turned the match. Denied Carlton the opportunity to double team Riewoldt and opened up the forward line. A bit of unexpected tactical genius by ross

Old Mate · Post: # 1130609Post **Old Mate** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:02pm

Agreed

He's a lot quicker than I thought.

kosifantutti23 · Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:06pm

Old Mate wrote:Agreed

He's a lot quicker than I though.

I'd expect him to be quicker than you.

bigcarl · Post: # 1130612Post **bigcarl** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:09pm

Old Mate wrote:Agreed

He's a lot quicker than I though.

Quick and a good kick. Leave him there

Old Mate · Post: # 1130616Post **Old Mate** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:16pm

kosifantutti23 wrote:
Old Mate wrote:Agreed

He's a lot quicker than I though.
I'd expect him to be quicker than you.

How would you know

SaintPav · Post: # 1130623Post **SaintPav** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:21pm

bigcarl wrote:
Old Mate wrote:Agreed

He's a lot quicker than I though.
Quick and a good kick. Leave him there

He was ok but don't push it.

bigcarl · Post: # 1130636Post **bigcarl** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:30pm

SaintPav wrote:
bigcarl wrote:
Old Mate wrote:Agreed

He's a lot quicker than I though.
Quick and a good kick. Leave him there
He was ok but don't push it.

We need someone apart from Riewoldt. That much ought to be obvious.

Kosi is at his best in second ruck.

bobmurray · Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:32pm

Who would play full back if dorkson played full forward

Old Mate · Post: # 1130640Post **Old Mate** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:33pm

bobmurray wrote:Who would play full back if dorkson played full forward

Blake

The Fireman · Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:34pm

was one of those switches that came off, how long that can last is debatable .
Either way kudos to Ross.

Cro · Post: # 1130650Post **Cro** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:38pm

It's worked twice against Carlton. I doubt we'll see an opportunity to use it again in the future.

Was a great move though, and Zac appeared to really enjoy it.

Teflon · Post: # 1130651Post **Teflon** » Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:38pm

Good move but by god Riewoldt needs help on the G...the joint just haunts him......with so much space it amazes me....

Bardon Saint · Sat 03 Sep 2011 11:39pm

Good move. The move was almost forced though as the Blues were playing all short in their forward line for a while. It has worked a treat against the Blues in the past but it can only be done if we're not left too short in defence. eg. Would not work against Cloke/Dawes with Blake/Fisher the tallest, gwilt injured and zac up fwd.

St. Luke · Post: # 1130692Post **St. Luke** » Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:00am

Truly a master-stroke by RL! Dawson worked well up forward

Sainternist · Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:28am

You beat me to it again, bigcarl!

I'm pretty sure we were on the same page last week post-match and I had a thread locked because it replicated your one.

Great minds...

Sainternist · Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:29am

Also, it's heartening to know you have a full back who knows where the goals are.

Enrico_Misso · Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:30am

Caaaarlton should be used to it by now.
Zac kicked the winner against them two years ago at Jihad.

SainterK · Post: # 1130758Post **SainterK** » Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:31am

He liked a bit of trash talk while up there

I liked it, but it's one of those things that should remain a sometimes, else it loses it's edge.

bigcarl · Post: # 1130769Post **bigcarl** » Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:35am

SainterK wrote:He liked a bit of trash talk while up there

I liked it, but it's one of those things that should remain a sometimes, else it loses it's edge.

Do you agree that Rooey needs a bit of help?

Richter · Post: # 1130770Post **Richter** » Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:35am

Was a nice move, but it wasn't the game changer. Taking off MG and putting on Farren was. Meant that Carlton could no longer pretty kick the ball around and waltz past our multitude of Talls like they did in the first half - when we were lucky not to be more than 2 goals down.

SainterK · Post: # 1130771Post **SainterK** » Sun 04 Sep 2011 12:36am

bigcarl wrote:
SainterK wrote:He liked a bit of trash talk while up there

I liked it, but it's one of those things that should remain a sometimes, else it loses it's edge.
Do you agree that Rooey needs a bit of help?

Not all the time, just depends, and the coach read it well tonight.

plugger66 · Post: # 1130823Post **plugger66** » Sun 04 Sep 2011 1:10am

The only masterstroke by our coach tonight was finally getting one of the ruckman off the ground.

bigcarl · Post: # 1130828Post **bigcarl** » Sun 04 Sep 2011 1:15am

plugger66 wrote:The only masterstroke by our coach tonight was finally getting one of the ruckman off the ground.

That was the other masterstroke. There's room for only two ruckmen out of Ben, Kosi and Gardi.

But the need for another genuine key forward to help out Riewoldt becomes even more blatantly obvious when he is beaten pointless like tonight.

duckduckduckgoose · Sun 04 Sep 2011 1:20am

good for a bit of novelty value but the fact is he is our one and only fullback and was towelled up in his position hence the move.

not a good thing.

Junction Oval · Sun 04 Sep 2011 2:10am

You can never complain when it works! Something needed to be done and for a change, the Coach made a pro-active decision.

I would have liked to see Rooey moved up the ground to the wing, with a bit of space to move and make his prescence felt. He continually got double teamed and also lost quite a few one-on-ones.