As our season heads towards it’s inevitable conclusion, here’s a thread to bring up issues that you would like to see addressed in the preseason.
The one thing I would love to see happen is for the all the ■■■■■■ left footers to be made to learn to kick with their right foot before next season. It’s ■■■■■■ annoying, the amount of times we turn over possession simply because one of our left footers gets stuck on his wrong foot and just seems totally incapable of kicking on his right foot.
I’m sure that others of you will come up with more important issues but this is my personal bugbear that I would love to be fixed.
As our season heads towards it's inevitable conclusion, here's a thread to bring up issues that you would like to see addressed in the preseason.
The one thing I would love to see happen is for the all the ■■■■■■ left footers to be made to learn to kick with their right foot before next season. It’s ■■■■■■ annoying, the amount of times we turn over possession simply because one of our left footers gets stuck on his wrong foot and just seems totally incapable of kicking on his right foot.
I’m sure that others of you will come up with more important issues but this is my personal bugbear that I would love to be fixed.
How long would it take someone to learn to use their opposing foot accurately? Convention says ‘10,000 repetitions makes expert’.
What % of their training time do you think appropriate?
From which area shall that % be taken, you reckon?
*deciding who will play forward, who will play back predominately
*perfecting leading patterns
*kicking
*learning how to take the ball over the oppositions ■■■■■■■ goal line and understand the ■■■■■■■ deliberate ■■■■■■■ rule. ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■ me to no end
As our season heads towards it's inevitable conclusion, here's a thread to bring up issues that you would like to see addressed in the preseason.
The one thing I would love to see happen is for the all the ■■■■■■ left footers to be made to learn to kick with their right foot before next season. It’s ■■■■■■ annoying, the amount of times we turn over possession simply because one of our left footers gets stuck on his wrong foot and just seems totally incapable of kicking on his right foot.
I’m sure that others of you will come up with more important issues but this is my personal bugbear that I would love to be fixed.
How long would it take someone to learn to use their opposing foot accurately? Convention says ‘10,000 repetitions makes expert’.
What % of their training time do you think appropriate?
From which area shall that % be taken, you reckon?
So you’re happy for those players to continue to turn the ball over and for the coaching staff to not try and fix it are you?
These guys are professional footballers getting paid good money to perform the tasks required…it is ■■■■■■ ridiculous that so many of them are unable to adequately kick using their right foot.
Hird never really used his opposite foot but he had the range of kicks - bananas & outside of the boot kicks & dribblers - better than most could kick a drop punt.
For me it’s more about the range or field you can kick to from a certain position, more than the using both feet. Kommer and Myers are pretty shocking.
We should be addressing this stuff NOW, not in the pre-season. There’s no reason that we can’t start preparing for next year now when we’re not a chance for finals.
We should be starting to adapt to reduced interchange rotations. I’d like to see us capping our interchanges at 80 for the rest of the season and getting the players used to being out there for longer. Don’t care if we get flogged as a result.
We should be training the team for a game that will require more running and potentially less congestion. We should start to adjust our physical training to focus more on stamina and less on power
We should be developing strategies to deal with the tactics that are likely to re-emerge under a reduced cap, e.g. With players getting more tired: a) will the forward press be as prevalent? b) will teams use game styles that require precision foot skills? c) will we see the return of flooding?
Thanks to the stupidity of the AFL’s fixture equalisation policy we should have a great draw next year, it’s time to start planning now.
yeah i think we’ll see more flooding and then the media will go mental about it and they will lift the cap and then sides will press and congest and they will lower it and then …
seriously though, yes more flooding.
i’d like to see us improve our ball use from stoppages. I have been saying that for years though. we still throw it on the boot way to quickly and move it forward whatever the cost. what i like about Nob is his first instinct in stoppages is to feed it back to a guy under less pressure. All the good sides roll the ball back wherever possible until they find a guy moving forward with a good view of the field. I think this is probably an area Hird may struggle to address because as a player he was very much a kick it forward type stoppage player.
even guys like zaha and zerret go in head first and if they win it chuck it on the boot. Those two shoud be sitting back of the congestion a little even at centre clearances and then looking to move at pace through the contest to receive the first handball from the likes of hepp/jobe/Nob. We very rarely run away from stoppages and we need to improve this. I’d like to see laverde pushed into the centre a bit too as we close out the year and i’d like to seem him running through the congestion looking for handballs.
Regardless, if we want to persist in our bash it forward from stoppages style we need to have even numbers ahead of the ball and we should be designating kicking zones .
There should be 2 zones about 40m of the stoppage each at about 45 degrees to the stoppage, they should be cleared out and quick players should be leading into them as soon as we look like winning possession. This would open up the corridor to give JD space to lead to if we win it clean and have a player running through the clearance.
our clearances numbers have improved since smack came in but our use of the ball from clearances is still terribly ordinary. We need to start to score more heavily from stoppages on a consistent basis.
Id also back a very very strong stance on kicking. If you cant kick on your opposite foot you play VFL. Similar to what Beveridge is doing with Dogs. This is the top % of players of this code in the country and I know we are not the only team who have players that absolutely refuse to kick on their opposite but its an incitement on the development teams in the AFL that this is even an issue.
Im not suggesting they have to be amazing off both feet, that sometimes cannot be learned. But when you are so unable to kick off your opposite that you would rather be tackled then at least try then its an issue.