We’ll probably never know in our lifetime
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Personally I’d prefer the short term pain, so we can learn a game plan that will eventually win us a premiership.
Even If that means we finish last.
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I just don’t want to be so ■■■■. The adjustments aren’t extensive and just common sense adjustments.
i dont buy that its the holistic change to the gameplan people are making it out to be, its still zone, just moved some pieces around to accommodate palyer capability and set up starting points. the big change imo is making other teams best players accountable, didn’t think id ever see us tag neale.
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We tagged Petracca
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and in the last 5 years apart from a brief cameo from clarke, when else have we ever hard tagged someone?
Well we had the best tagger of the modern era for 12 months…. During the suspension year. And Worsfold played him as a forward pocket.
Exactly! It’s always been “we don’t apply hard tags, we back our midfielders in” but the times when we have applied a tag on an opposing midfielder it has worked, and on most occasions we’ve won the game. I like it. It also provides some balance and a level of accountability instead of watching the opponent’s best midfielder tear us a new one. If Calders can do what he did yesterday, clamp down on a prime mover and still have an impact offensively, why wouldn’t you do this every week?
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You realise Hobbs hasn’t only just been picked the last 4 games right?
He’s been in the team since round 5
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Yes, of course I am aware - but he has been given a more prominent role in the side over time to the gradual exclusion of Ham who is now out of the side. This include genuine midfield minutes.
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Why is it every time after a win without fail that the rhetoric is ‘we abandoned Truck’s system’ yet after loss it’s ‘Truck’s putrid system did us again’?
Do people actually think we flip flop between wholesale systematic changes to the way we play from week to week?
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Yes. Because there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that’s exactly what we do. Make drastic changes in the hope of a “sugar hit” one-off good performance. There’s nothing that’s sustainable in anything we do.
I appreciate the detail you’ve put forward. As I’ve said, we can discuss game plan changes but just won’t agree.
I think posters and commentators use game plan change to explain away wins after being chips in that the coach and GP are rubbish.
Caldwell played a great game although not a super tight tag and beat Neale. Tight tags are still not the way to go and very few if any coaches employ it.
I’m not really sure that your Ham/Hobbs/Cutler example points to a change in game plan. Hobbs is an 18 yo in his first year of senior footy. Readiness to play, suitability to a position etc would all be determined across this season and the next couple. Ham was sub and Cutler is injured so, again, not sure there has been any change in ‘game plan’ here that proves Rutten has altered his original path.
I said last week, I’m not posting in support of the GP or otherwise, and Rutten will survive or not based on it. I am very sure it hasn’t significantly changed. Nor do I think that key personnel would apply pressure to Rutten/Cara/Gia on the need to change the GP. He would explain progress, tweaks, use of players within it, but none of Mahoney/X/Board/Brasher would be demanding GP change. It has and always will be tweaked and the game style will change and as the team grows together and experience develops, implementation will improve.
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Heres our entire half back line pressed up as high as our F50 followed by Hind taking the intercept mark and having a shot on goal.
The week before our half backs had 4 shots at goal.
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Some do, because that is easier to accept than the possibility that they are wrong.
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I cant believe Brent Rutten has been offered a contract extension.
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Win another game and our draft position goes from top 3 pick to a top 6 pick.
But they’re all playing man on man.
If we are playing man on man, which it looks like we are……When the oppositions forwards come up the ground, so they can contest the next kick, of course our KPD are going to also come up.
There was multiple times yesterday, that our players ran back to flood D50…. Rather than pressing the ball carrier higher up the ground. That is a Worsfold game game plan.
Perhaps the players have gone back to old habits, which is against the coaches wishes. Either way, it’s happening.
I posted this last week in another thread….
…Our high defensive press is a forward half tactic predicated by interceptors sitting 40-50m off to cut off opposition exits from stoppage inside attacking fifty. ‘Pressing’ the opposition into an area of the field, to make the ground smaller. 40-50m typically as that’s the range a pressured kick/exit will travel aerially from a contest. You back your smalls or midfielders to create this pressure if the contest is lost. If an opponent forward wants to sit out the back, they’re banking on either the worlds largest kick to get to them, or the exit to be ‘clean’ - the latter being our major downfall this year as our front half pressure has been junk…
In the grabs @Tyler has shown, their half forwards have followed our half backs up to make them accountable. I don’t watch Brisbane each week to know for sure if this is their regular setup but suspect without Daniel Rich or Kiddy Coleman to kick through it, they’ve altered how they look in that area.
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How did we extend Brett Ratten’s contract? Why didn’t we extend David Teague’s contract at Fark Carlton?
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