There's also a strategic placement of the long kick. So they know a pack might result but it goes to the best strategic place. I think Port and others did this a few years back, where they put the long kick closer to the boundary, so if the mark doesn't eventuate, they can create a strategic stoppage when the ball spills out of bounds and score from there. Other variants are possible, obviously involving how players set-up around the landing zone of those long kicks.The long kick or the long bomb?One means trying to hit a target, the other is a hail mary (which hasn't worked for us in years)
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Play the first 10 games, be BOG in one, WOG in another, equal the marks record in a game, miss 80% of his shots from 10m out, then do a leg injury and miss the rest of the year.
This was the drill I saw.
I assume that any random kick to a one on one contest is of equal advantage to either of the players. Matchups go a long way to determining what kind of delivery is best suited to the forward. A speedster like Colyer may prefer the long kick over their head as Matera provided, or a ground ball. Lobb may like it on his head or just out in front. But even the less skilled players delivering long kicks forward (Langdon and Acres style) should really be a 50:50 result for us at a minimum.
One of the areas we failed with this strategy is continuing to do it even when the opposition has set up a strategy to work it in their favour such as double teaming a player or having a loose man back. The real problem has been predictability.
The solution is to use alternative avenues to goal, but we have been terrible at achieving this. My expectations are that we can add a lot more diversity to our forward entries with the personnel in place once they are available.
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This is very typical of how Ross Lyon coached - he wanted us to be predictable to each other, therefore we would also be predictable to the opposition. When he had a team which was mature and strong and fit enough to carry these plans out for the full 100 minutes week in week out we were very hard to beat. Even if the opposition knew what we were doing, they struggled to stop it - other than the really elite teams like Hawthorn! With a young, inexperienced team, not so much...
Yes. I think many coaches and teams have a plan A and pretty much stick to it, and back themselves in. As a coach you want to get your opponent to change their game plan. I don’t watch them a lot, but to defeat Hawthorn, you needed to stop them doing what they want to do, and vice versa.
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Matera and Blakely dropped and still no Hayden Young. Thoughts?
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Kid has some kind of lower leg injury - they just wont admit it
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That's most probably correct, but he's been running/kicking in training so if the injury is that minor why would the club hide it?
Interesting outs.
No surprises, re Matera and Blakey they were pretty $hitte last week.
No Young, well I guess that means his strength in his legs aren’t there yet.. probably muscle soreness and he is just being managed.
Interesting training report from the club...
Darcy led the ruck with a midfield of Nat Fyfe, Andrew Brayshaw and Adam Cerra for the ‘White’ team with Brett Bewley and Cam McCarthy on the wings.
Meek, Darcy Tucker, Caleb Serong and Mitch Crowden were in the engine room for the team in red bibs, with Michael Frederick and Connor Blakely on the outside.
Training: Match focus continues
Fremantle held their weekly main training session on Wednesday as they prepare for Saturday's Marsh Community Series clash against West Coastwww.fremantlefc.com.au
Should be the other way around, no? Even Crowden would be preferable to Blakely on a wing. Have we just been overrating Blakely's potential as a clearance mid, given Lyon and now Jlo don't seem to consider him as one? If AB/Cerra/Serong/Tucker have leapfrogged him in the rotation then is there any sense in randomly shoehorning him in somewhere?
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I wrote this last night but forgot to post it. No shoehhorning it seems, he's just out of the team altogether. Jlo is wise.
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To be fair, Dockerland1 has always sounded like an a+ grade potato. So to see him rag on someone selflessly providing training reports..Can't remember reading a report from you.
Can't remember reading a report from you.
Have not done one. Hard to do from Melbourne Salim! ;-)
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He probs shouldn't have played hide the sausage with someone else's GF/Ex-GF? Hard to be a valued member of the team when half the boys aren't super impressed by your moral compass...
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Blake Acres is out for 8 weeks you are kidding me...
Yeah I know, I was worried he wouldn't fit in over here but he's made himself right at home.
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