Set Plays

[Otiman]

A set play from the kickout when we were one point down won us the game today. The big arm rotation by whoever it was kicking out called in the play, and within three or four kicks we had it in our forward 50.

Fantastic stuff and I hope we see more of it this year.

[Saints-06-Premiers]

Yeh looked like a set play.

Why not do that all game every game? Suppose it might be predictable in the end.

Montagna kicked out I believe.

[snoopygirl]

Haha, I thought he was signalling for a powerplay in cricket.

[Oh When the Saints]

RL's stamp is definitely on this St Kilda side now ...

[Teflon]

ahh.just nice to have a FOOTBALL coach and not a man manager of Target.

[plugger66]

Set play my arse. just good play and like any other point could have been turned over. Otherwise why wouldnt we score from every kick out.

[Teflon]

Set play my arse. just good play and like any other point could have been turned over. Otherwise why wouldnt we score from every kick out.

Plugger not every set play WOULD or HAS to result in a goal to be proven a bona fide "set play"

I like you though so dont go ballistic on me.

Thank you.

[bobmurray]

Set play my arse. just good play and like any other point could have been turned over. Otherwise why wouldnt we score from every kick out.

If a set play was carried out for every kick in then the opposition would catch on rather quickly,,As far as a set play for your arse is concerned,i'll give it a miss.

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[vergs]

Set play my arse. just good play and like any other point could have been turned over. Otherwise why wouldnt we score from every kick out.

Definately a set play, as signalled by Montagna before the kick in.

[plugger66]

Set play my arse. just good play and like any other point could have been turned over. Otherwise why wouldnt we score from every kick out.

Definately a set play, as signalled by Montagna before the kick in.

If the set play was i will play on and kick it long then you are right but the rest of it was luck but good luck to them i say.

[Otiman]

It had more to do with field positioning than anything else, allowed us to set up the switch properly, and get every st. kilda player out there knowing what was going on.

[ben_fff]

They did this last week (assuming you're talking about the players throwing both their arms in the air?) Milne started it last week followed by Joey, Eddy and someone else in the midfield doing it.

[Solar]

It had more to do with field positioning than anything else, allowed us to set up the switch properly, and get every st. kilda player out there knowing what was going on.

well put otiman,

in fact have a look at the first game against the tigers, there was a point where king tapped it into space and joey seemed to go from pack to space in an instance. This comes down to others positioning themselves to block the opposition, thus creating the space. G and roo do this very well when working in tandem. Hopefully all these closed sessions will produce man of these set plays, becase the likes of port and geelong score easy goals by producing space goal side to roving players.

[Otiman]

They did this last week (assuming you're talking about the players throwing both their arms in the air?) Milne started it last week followed by Joey, Eddy and someone else in the midfield doing it.

This was a "Powerplay" motion, with one arm.

[joffaboy]

If the set play was i will play on and kick it long then you are right but the rest of it was luck but good luck to them i say.

But is incorrect. He kicked to himself, ran to a pocket, switched the play to Gram in the middle about 45 metres out,who kicked to the fat side where the Saints had created a two on one. The kick into the forward line was a hail mary, but it paid off. It took 26 seconds from the play on to the umpire singalling the goal.

If that was not a set play to use Gram to switch to the fat side, well thee are no such things as set plays.

[Solar]

If the set play was i will play on and kick it long then you are right but the rest of it was luck but good luck to them i say.

But is incorrect. He kicked to himself, ran to a pocket, switched the play to Gram in the middle about 45 metres out,who kicked to the fat side where the Saints had created a two on one. The kick into the forward line was a hail mary, but it paid off. It took 26 seconds from the play on to the umpire singalling the goal.

If that was not a set play to use Gram to switch to the fat side, well thee are no such things as set plays.

set play or not

thanks for the explanation.... you miss so much when listening via the radio, cheers joffaboy

[ace]

When you have number of different signals, you can confuse the oppostion players and coaches. You give some silly signal, the oppostion expects a set play. While they are trying to work out what the set play is you just play normal. If you score the oppostion spend the rest of the match trying to work out what the set play was.

[saint-stu]

Didn't they use grammy in a similar situation last year and it worked out much the same?

[Saints-06-Premiers]

I watched the replay again this morning.

Before Joey signalled the powerplay, Gram is in the top left of screen signaling the powerplay too. As Joey sees that he signals the powerplay. Then he plays on and as he does that, the two Geelong players closest to Gram drift across the right where Joey is looking to go, at the same time, Gram drifts back towards the wing where he recieves the kick from Gilbert. I think he mightve looked to go the torp after that.

[BAM! (shhhh)]

Set play my arse. just good play and like any other point could have been turned over. Otherwise why wouldnt we score from every kick out.

If a set play was carried out for every kick in then the opposition would catch on rather quickly,,As far as a set play for your arse is concerned,i'll give it a miss.

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I would think there ought to be a set play on every kick in, just not necessarily the same one... IF that was a set play, what set it apart was calling for a specific one. I'm not sold, but it worked, so i'm happy.

[Foxer53]

doing that though sort of defeats the point of a set play as a set play is meant to catch your opposition of guard and unawares

good coaching is what i would put it down to really

[riccardo]

There was one on Saturday loved when someone (maybe Chalie C) was getting double teamed in a marking contest up forward and he palmed the ball down into a crumbers hands. Snap. Goal.

I know this is probably oft used, but these are things we have gotten used NOT to seeing recently.

[Armoooo]

Didn't they use grammy in a similar situation last year and it worked out much the same?

Yes, but if I recall correctly Roo missed the kick and we ended up drawing...

[Armoooo]

There was one on Saturday loved when someone (maybe Chalie C) was getting double teamed in a marking contest up forward and he palmed the ball down into a crumbers hands. Snap. Goal.

I know this is probably oft used, but these are things we have gotten used NOT to seeing recently.

Yeah, it was Charlie G, knocked it down to Allen who kicked a lovely goal, it was clear they had been working on that in the off season, with Milne and Schneider in the same team it will be a very effective way for kosi, Riewoldt and Gehrig to beat the double/ triple team...

[The Jeff]

It was definitely a set play - and a nice one at that!

If Gram was signalling for the play, it's great to see that in his first competitive hit out for the year and at a crunch period of the game, he wanted the ball in his hands.

Great stuff!