I agree that a full 18 man press seems to be used at times, and holding a few forward at others (haven’t gotten to a game yet).
I just doubt any radical deviation, reaction or change would happen in the space of a week.
Possibly the 16 v 18 were always meant to be options to use at different times - ie if we’re being flogged through the middle, go to the 18 man zone, or something along those lines.
I think your 100% wrong. Gabba is tiny, Brisbane also haven’t played MCG for a whole year.
They won’t have a clue how to defend nor utilise so much space. Our plan should be to spread them and see how they can handle the space as a group as well as individually. Our defence just has to press them wide and once it won as Crawford once said chainsaw through and move it forward side to side and utilise space and one on ones.
We weren’t really that afl standard.
raz running on the wing with time and space misses baguely by 10 plus meters despite the fact he had a 10 meter head start.
guys handballing to the ruckman when they don’t need to.
hepp missing a 1 meter handball.
Skills are still so sub par, which is why good drilled sides will continue to restrict them.
depending on how brisbane go travelling I don’t think we will get a true evaluation of where we are actually at until we play collingwood. they will be both well set up and apply alot of pressure, so then we will see how the players “fun” football goes.
this post is weird, because you attribute things to the wrong clubs.
The way you say essendon tried to start playing in the second half of the year, is actually more like the richmond style.
they always had at least revolt standing on or near the center of the ground on the last defender at all times. They didn’t have the 18 men in compressed like we were doing.
infact I’m pretty sure a big part of why stewart isn’t playing in the seniors ironically since the first richmond game last year, is because he was the one found out to be not sticking to the gameplan of staying back, and he’d continually wander up to the 50 meter arc ish just leaving rance in the center of the ground by himself.
so yes ironically the way you say you want them to play, is the exact way richmond have, they’ve always had even numbers in their forward setup from stoppages and that.
what they did better than most was once the first quick kick came out of a contest, is guys like edwards, rioli and the like would back themselves in to dodge through traffic and make sure when they disposed of the ball, they’d be in a position where they could kick it to advantage of the players streaming back to goal, not just blinding kicking forward cos players were streaming forward.
Bring the attitude before and during the game
1st and 3rd QTR works well.
Get rid of the 2nd QTR rubbish
And finish games off with a win in the last.
That’s all the game plan we need.