cant see anything even remotely looking like this on the board, so figure i will start one up
2013 i thought we had a very good game plan, at least the concept framework and idea was exceptional, only that it requires some tuning and altering to go the next step and win a premiership, too many occasions this year it showed up to have slight flaws and deficiencies, nothing drastic, thought the personnel loss accumulated and made it look way worse than it was such as losing simpson and hawkins back primarily
some of the big key deficiencies i thought our game plan had that really cost us were
1- our spread was not varied enough, it was very good i thought, but towards the middle of the year i think it began to get worked out, we would spread in large numbers very much in straight direction, we would rarely spread out wide or move diagonal, this began to make it easier to plan creating turn overs. I really did like the way we spread, the timing and the way they worked in groups was a huge improvement in 2012, just think they need to take it another level and add more tricks to the way we spread as a team, assess the situations ahead and become less predictable moving in waves from handball 1 2 3 to 4 or 5.
2- we got slaughtered on the rebound across HF! i think this is a continuation of number 1, too many times this year we would turn the ball over by hand, having been run down across our HF line, you only need to watch the brisbane and collingwood games to see how much this killed us, and teams followed suit for the rest of the year. almost every single game we lost it was an opposition HB flanker that was given BOG or got 30+ touches.. rich, mitchel, obrien. I think its happening for two reasons, first we are too predictable with our spread by hand, teams are able to pre empt well where we would be going to move it and pressure accordingly across HF, and secondly, we would over commit our players going forward in waves, opening us up on the counter attack
I think we should make it an aim in 2014 to retain possession of the ball across HF, we need a plan B moving into our forward half, that if our players are not open streaming forward, that we re evaluate and hit up a man either wider backwards or on a lead, don't take the game on around half forward and risk a turnover, i liked the way we did move it this year, but at times we really overcooked it. I would rather have someone mark the ball 70M out and evaluate the situation either moving it on quickly or slowing it down if nothing is on, AVOID a turn over at all costs here!!
i could go on with more but i will leave it at that now
2013 i thought we had a very good game plan, at least the concept framework and idea was exceptional, only that it requires some tuning and altering to go the next step and win a premiership, too many occasions this year it showed up to have slight flaws and deficiencies, nothing drastic, thought the personnel loss accumulated and made it look way worse than it was such as losing simpson and hawkins back primarily
some of the big key deficiencies i thought our game plan had that really cost us were
1- our spread was not varied enough, it was very good i thought, but towards the middle of the year i think it began to get worked out, we would spread in large numbers very much in straight direction, we would rarely spread out wide or move diagonal, this began to make it easier to plan creating turn overs. I really did like the way we spread, the timing and the way they worked in groups was a huge improvement in 2012, just think they need to take it another level and add more tricks to the way we spread as a team, assess the situations ahead and become less predictable moving in waves from handball 1 2 3 to 4 or 5.
2- we got slaughtered on the rebound across HF! i think this is a continuation of number 1, too many times this year we would turn the ball over by hand, having been run down across our HF line, you only need to watch the brisbane and collingwood games to see how much this killed us, and teams followed suit for the rest of the year. almost every single game we lost it was an opposition HB flanker that was given BOG or got 30+ touches.. rich, mitchel, obrien. I think its happening for two reasons, first we are too predictable with our spread by hand, teams are able to pre empt well where we would be going to move it and pressure accordingly across HF, and secondly, we would over commit our players going forward in waves, opening us up on the counter attack
I think we should make it an aim in 2014 to retain possession of the ball across HF, we need a plan B moving into our forward half, that if our players are not open streaming forward, that we re evaluate and hit up a man either wider backwards or on a lead, don't take the game on around half forward and risk a turnover, i liked the way we did move it this year, but at times we really overcooked it. I would rather have someone mark the ball 70M out and evaluate the situation either moving it on quickly or slowing it down if nothing is on, AVOID a turn over at all costs here!!
i could go on with more but i will leave it at that now
