John Worsfold

[Humble_NSW_Fan]

From the interview…

Q. Did we make a mistake not manning up the loose man in Carlton’s defence, or were we just leaving that up to the players to make that adjustment?

A. Carlton didn’t really play a loose man. They just sagged off our forwards. That’s where our forwards were a bit disappointed with how they reacted and how they set up.

In the last quarter we couldn’t get the ball forward. So we allowed Fark Carlton to have a spare defender then, because it was 12 inside 50s to zero. So there was really no value in us having any forwards up the other end of the ground. So we brought them really high and eventually got through them. I think we had Fantasia hit the post, Walla had a left foot snap, Zaharakis had a shot, that went out ON THE FULL, in that period when we did actually give them that loose [man].

Overall for the period of the game that was the area where the players have focused on. They were disappointed with the way they let Fark Carlton get a player that sagged off one of our players.

Man love for WOOSHA.

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

They all got to 7th or 8th, and no further, for various reasons.

I don’t really give a stuff where we finish this year, if they’re making big strides on building the list to take us to a flag. You don’t get flags for 7th.

[Tippa-the-Iceberg]

We will win out first final this yr.

There, nuts on line.

[cul_de_sac]

You don’t get flags for 7th.

Except when it’s 2016

[chris_64]

Lets take what Woosha says at face value. He says, the players and coaches agree, ( a sort of “compact” agreement) to play a certain style of footy that they want to play and what they expect from each other and he wants to make the game very simple and easy to understand…

So we have trained all pre-season on the press, zone and fast ball movement that is the Woosha game plan. Clearly, all that is aimed at dry weather football, which occurs in 20 out of 22 games played on average each season.

Whats missing ? Plan B, a Wet Day game plan. So the style of footy and the mutual expectations are completely stuffed up, and the style of footy they all have agreed on is so inflexibly ingrained, it is difficult for the coach to unpick it and get them to adapt on one wet day.

Now the problem, how many wet days are we going to play? Maybe only one more this season. All I can suggest is that we go back to what we do well and not dwell on the loss, but when the opportunity arises and its raining, they do match sims and teach the players how to play in wet conditions, develop a plan B and .get the players to learn it.

the issue isn’t necessarily that it was wet, it’s how they handled the pressure of it being wet.

“hoping” that it doesn’t rain to much, is not really a great way to approach an issue.

The issue it does raise, like with every team, what happens when opposition teams figure out how to stop us ?
No good having an ingrained system that once set up against, is easy to stop.

The blueprint for how to beat us isn’t that hard and has been around for years, you set up one or 2 players a kick behind the play, and you pressure the ball carrier, as far to many of our players still have the habit of, see ball kick ball forward for no reason.

So what happens on a dry day, when we continually play into the hands of opposition teams ? do you want our players and coaches to go, well look we’ve practiced this way all summer, best not change things now, you never know it might start working out for us again soon, you know just cos.

There is no one magic formula that is better than any other, it’s about being able to implement and change styles within the game and within the season depending on how the opposition set up to play against us.

It’s not about hiding behind the excuses, oh well it was wet, we couldn’t play the way we wanted, oh well it’s not gonna rain that much anymore when we play, so we will be sweet.+

I hear what you say DNP, and I dont disagree, Its the adaptation. I just dont think after 3 games we are ready to adapt, because we just dont have enough games under the belt with the team in this configuration.to even play the standard game plan.

We just need to give it time. Woosha says we will be playing well after 11 games > I reserve my judgement until then. Hopefully by Round 11 we will have won 6 games and aim for 7 out of the last 11 games to total 13 for the year. That means we will be in the 8 and playing finals.

[Theclubsanga]

…tip the umpires pregame?

[Serenity_Now]

Who said that?

[cul_de_sac]

Knights didn’t even get a pass for basic communication

[RockyIV]

Woosha.

[Diggers]

I chortle every time I see that photo.

[wimmera1]

Eh.
He’s doing it wrong. But he knows what it’s for.

[Henry_s_Angry_Pills]

ORdering some delicious Vietnamese street food?

[Diggers]

Wonder what he is looking at?

[chris_64]

Wooshas press conference today. Best indication yet Woosha ain’t ever going to tag any opposition player. Get used to it.

[Deckham]

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Harsh.

[Tippa-the-Iceberg]

Is John.
Is Good.

[Albert_Thurgood]

Wooshas press conference today. Best indication yet Woosha ain’t ever going to tag any opposition player. Get used to it.

Genuine question: has any team won a flag without playing a great tagger?

(At least since 1985 when we had the man who was dubbed by the Press as the “Prince of Taggers”)

[bobo]

I chortle every time I see that photo.

I know! Because it looks like he has a bald batch which mutated into an elbow, and which then became a whole other person!

[cul_de_sac]

Wooshas press conference today. Best indication yet Woosha ain’t ever going to tag any opposition player. Get used to it.

Genuine question: has any team won a flag without playing a great tagger?

(At least since 1985 when we had the man who was dubbed by the Press as the “Prince of Taggers”)

Who was Essendon 2000’s great tagger? Chris Heffernan? I don’t remember recent Hawthorn teams having a noted run with player either. Either way team defence and the role of the close checking midfielder have gone under a lot of variations and trends since 1985.

[munna1]

The coaches should not even have to tell them about the short handballs in the rain. These blokes have played footy for years before AFL in all types of conditions. Its pretty simple stuff really.