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Funny how everyone assumes you might be five points up in a big match and need to practice slowing the game down and retaining possession. What if you're five points down? Ross found this out the hard way.
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Funny how everyone assumes you might be five points up in a big match and need to practice slowing the game down and retaining possession. What if you're five points down? Ross found this out the hard way.
Good points.I am in disagreement with some posters on the slowing down of play.
The Lions have been doing this since the early days of Fagan, so it won't be going away.
It is a necessary part of owning the football for short periods of time.
Sure, things can go wrong like any other kick or handball.
This tactic is especially important in the last few minutes of the game. Also needed at other times during the game.
We are not the only club that does this.
Teams towards the top of the ladder are more likely to get it right more times than wrong.
As they say practice makes perfect.
But fatigue and the actual occasion (say close game/final) can cause issues so the more experienced the player the better.
And of course, we only talk about the fumbles part not when we actually score from the tactic like Rayner's last goal v Bombers.
I am sure there are a lot of other occasions where we either score a goal, point or create a forward stoppage with this type of play.
The main aim is to stop a turnover and if it does happen in is preferable to be in our forward 50 with 0-30 seconds left.
We have been doing this irrespective of being 40 points up or 5 points up.
Barring the last quarter, we still do it even if we are 1-2 goals down. Better to reset after the break than be 2-3 goals down.
So taller than Zorks, but with Froggy’s speed.If we thought the Ashcorft boys are something, i reckon Froggy's boy could be potentially be one of the best with his wife being Zorks sister.
Should we put this boy on the watch list 3KZ ROFL
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Some one hasn't given Joe a vote!
A troll?
I believe that was beardancer? Haven't seen much of him in these parts latelyWho was the poster who kept advocating to drop Joe?
I believe that was beardancer? Haven't seen much of him in these parts lately![]()
Joe's too busy kicking goals to bother with posting on an internet forum.Coincidence?
If Joe starts talking up Lester we will need to check if he and 3KZ is Football have ever been seen in the same room!Honestly out of all our players I could see Joe shittalking on this forum. Or doing a bit of trolling
Joe is beardancer?Honestly out of all our players I could see Joe shittalking on this forum. Or doing a bit of trolling
Tucks his phone into his socks on gameday.Joe is beardancer?
I am in disagreement with some posters on the slowing down of play.
The Lions have been doing this since the early days of Fagan, so it won't be going away.
It is a necessary part of owning the football for short periods of time.
Sure, things can go wrong like any other kick or handball.
This tactic is especially important in the last few minutes of the game. Also needed at other times during the game.
We are not the only club that does this.
Teams towards the top of the ladder are more likely to get it right more times than wrong.
As they say practice makes perfect.
But fatigue and the actual occasion (say close game/final) can cause issues so the more experienced the player the better.
And of course, we only talk about the fumbles part not when we actually score from the tactic like Rayner's last goal v Bombers.
I am sure there are a lot of other occasions where we either score a goal, point or create a forward stoppage with this type of play.
The main aim is to stop a turnover and if it does happen in is preferable to be in our forward 50 with 0-30 seconds left.
We have been doing this irrespective of being 40 points up or 5 points up.
Barring the last quarter, we still do it even if we are 1-2 goals down. Better to reset after the break than be 2-3 goals down.
Grasshopper17 you always have a good analysis of the game.Think you've raised a good point Section 5, altho I think there's an argument to this each way.
I finally finished watching the replay this morning, and I noted with interest the final passage of play you referred to. There was a key difference between that passage of play and all the other ones we've been talking about that have either cost us goals or resulted in heart in mouth moments...
The Rayner goal came from a chain of possession where EVERY kick went forward. There was no kick backwards, stop, have a look, kick sideways, stop, have a look, kick backwards, miss a target, oops
So I think that's pretty key. Yep, milk the clock, great, but do so going forward. When you attack vertically there is much lesser risk of nasty things happening if you mess up, because all your numbers are on one side of the ground making it very congested on the rebound.
Also I'm not against backwards/sideways kicks, but again, let's do so with purpose. If we go backwards (and we should NEVER go backwards if we are already in the corridor... That should just be a team rule, no matter the match situation), take the mark, play on and keep going that way out to the other flank for another mark, this time kicking forward.
If we are able to complete that switch, we should have lost very little, if any, ground from one side of the field to the other, particularly late in a game when the other team should be fatigued. That will then give us the opportunity to complete the reverse switch, back to where we started. This all takes extra time and helps us run the clock.
And maybe by then the opposition have that outlet player manned up. If so, great, that's going to give our next guy (further forward on the same flank) more room to lead into. Kick long to him or boundary side of him, he marks, brings it to ground, or is close enough when it goes out of bounds that the umpire can't penalise us for insufficient intent. Gaining ground AND running the clock at the same time. Now that is smart footy.
The best part is if we do all this well, we can lure the opposition into a trap and actually set up genuine scoring opportunities for ourselves. Maybe that opponent calls our bluff by taking a boundary-side position. Great - he's just given our bloke basically the entire half forward flank essentially unencumbered. Some defences are now adopting boundary-side positioning inside defensive 50 but I dare them to bring that on the half forward flanks where there is much more space.
Maybe after succeeding with a flank-to-flank switch once or twice, their whole midfield zone defence overcommits when we try it again, opening up the potential for us to zig zag back the way we came, from the corridor, without even completing a full switch. Like tacking in sailing.
This was meant to be a couple of paragraphs but has basically become my entire thoughts on how best to run the clockEnd of the day I still think we should be playing to score at all times and there are ways to do that even while (a) taking time off the clock and (b) minimising the opposition's scoring opportunities.