skoobydoo
Premiership Player
- Apr 3, 2012
- 3,364
- 2,681
- AFL Club
- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Bite Basebal Crystal Brook Roosters
Sando said -
'I don't want to be an open and free flowing football team with our attack and then we leak goals.
'I prefer it to be contested, a scrap, like it was tonight (Brisbane), contest after contest after contest. That's when we play our best football.
'It doesn't suit us to play that open free flowing game. We certainly play better whenever our attack is on the back of good defence.'
Does this suggest that Sando is primarily a defensive coach?
A few seasons ago we were adept at moving the ball to outside players at centre bounces. We have lost this ability over those few seasons to the point that we seem unable to set-up to make this type of play. Our movement is now almost exclusively by rushed kick. We rarely give ourselves the option of a clear space receiver/runner going past. Similarly at general stoppages we so often are structured to emerge our play on the defensive side with slow circuitous hand/foot movements before we can clear and directionalise (is that a word?) into attack. We are devoid of any consistent outside run pattern.
Posters have noted 'how lazy we are', 'how we do not lead', 'how we do not spread', 'how slow/reluctant we are to make running position to present'. Compared to most sides we appear lethargic in providing clear options to advantage. Most of our play is characterised by a pattern of waiting for play to come to the contest. There is a lack of movement to space or advantage. Is this the Sando game? Does he want the safer 'hard slog', the inert 'grinding out' compared to at least a reasonable dose of creative football that precipitates more realistic scoring outcomes?
If our game is built on defence, does it follow that the players are expecting our play to evolve from a subconsciously conceded defensive condition? Does that make sense?.....that our game is structured for defence first and attack is the secondary outcome? Is this a psychological impediment.....a doctrine/mind-set that restricts a natural risk taking enterprising attacking approach? And if it is true that the first response is to play 'defensively' at contests, it does not help explain why we seem unable to apply the same around the ground pressure as other teams can do to us ( tackling stats). It is more often our game that exhibits a breaking down under pressure.
We are far better than what we are showing. However we seem to be doing it the hard bullish way, with a structure/game plan that leaves us taking optionless undisciplined rushed kicks and bombs. Or when we do emerge with clear possession having to second guess and improvise into the vast unpopulated spaces of our forward half. There has got to be a more productive way. We must have a game balance which is not just keyed off defence. A game where we can exploit outside runners, rebound carriers and some lively movement which creates loose players and puts some verve and unpredictability into our forward thrusts and goal scoring. The structure which facilitates our forward ball movement needs fixing.
Interested in what others think about these concerns of structures and play possibly based on a negative defensive mental attitude.
'I don't want to be an open and free flowing football team with our attack and then we leak goals.
'I prefer it to be contested, a scrap, like it was tonight (Brisbane), contest after contest after contest. That's when we play our best football.
'It doesn't suit us to play that open free flowing game. We certainly play better whenever our attack is on the back of good defence.'
Does this suggest that Sando is primarily a defensive coach?
A few seasons ago we were adept at moving the ball to outside players at centre bounces. We have lost this ability over those few seasons to the point that we seem unable to set-up to make this type of play. Our movement is now almost exclusively by rushed kick. We rarely give ourselves the option of a clear space receiver/runner going past. Similarly at general stoppages we so often are structured to emerge our play on the defensive side with slow circuitous hand/foot movements before we can clear and directionalise (is that a word?) into attack. We are devoid of any consistent outside run pattern.
Posters have noted 'how lazy we are', 'how we do not lead', 'how we do not spread', 'how slow/reluctant we are to make running position to present'. Compared to most sides we appear lethargic in providing clear options to advantage. Most of our play is characterised by a pattern of waiting for play to come to the contest. There is a lack of movement to space or advantage. Is this the Sando game? Does he want the safer 'hard slog', the inert 'grinding out' compared to at least a reasonable dose of creative football that precipitates more realistic scoring outcomes?
If our game is built on defence, does it follow that the players are expecting our play to evolve from a subconsciously conceded defensive condition? Does that make sense?.....that our game is structured for defence first and attack is the secondary outcome? Is this a psychological impediment.....a doctrine/mind-set that restricts a natural risk taking enterprising attacking approach? And if it is true that the first response is to play 'defensively' at contests, it does not help explain why we seem unable to apply the same around the ground pressure as other teams can do to us ( tackling stats). It is more often our game that exhibits a breaking down under pressure.
We are far better than what we are showing. However we seem to be doing it the hard bullish way, with a structure/game plan that leaves us taking optionless undisciplined rushed kicks and bombs. Or when we do emerge with clear possession having to second guess and improvise into the vast unpopulated spaces of our forward half. There has got to be a more productive way. We must have a game balance which is not just keyed off defence. A game where we can exploit outside runners, rebound carriers and some lively movement which creates loose players and puts some verve and unpredictability into our forward thrusts and goal scoring. The structure which facilitates our forward ball movement needs fixing.
Interested in what others think about these concerns of structures and play possibly based on a negative defensive mental attitude.
