And what a great kick for goal he was and a great goal kicker. 1034 for Souths and 45 in 16 state games.
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Coach Justin Longmuir Pt 2
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What’s happened to JL this past week or so? First the travel aspects and now this.
I dunno but I really like it. Gets his point across really well. I particularly like how he said it feels like some media analyst don’t even watch Fremantle games. David king being the prime example.
Yeah it’s been really refreshing. Saying a lot of what I’ve been thinking.
Yeah it's a nice change of posture - fingers crossed some of that stamping foot on the ground, not tolerating any bullshit attitude rubs off on the players on the field.
Kind of reminds me of Damian Hardwick and Chris Scott, the way they were defending their coaching moves in years before they were successful and the general public was laying in.
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He's done. Has nothing against good teams
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we gave him an extension recently and at worst we'll be 6-6 at the bye. will have the rest of the year at the minimum. not my ideal scenario but that's the reality of it.
I get that fumbles and missed simple handballs and kicks have cost us massive, but I don't know that's something that clears up with more experience or is just purely a symptom of the gameplan. The Dogs won the flag like this, but they only finished 7th that year which tells you that maybe it doesn't hold up. Mint if you pull it off for 3-4 weeks in September I guess.
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Did we win?
There's no doubt the team play for him. I just keep questioning the system they're buying in to.
Amazing comeback but we looked absolutely toothless for half this game...like we do for many extended periods of football.
I don't think you can use the last 15 mins as a measuring stick for the footy we "should" be playing since it was a last roll of the dice (i.e Pearce kicking goals). At the same time, our perpetual inability to convert periods of dominance into scoreboard pressure will sink him eventually. I want it to work, but as great as it was to salvage 2 pts tonight there are still a fair few question marks.
Amazing comeback but we looked absolutely toothless for half this game...like we do for many extended periods of football.
I don't think you can use the last 15 mins as a measuring stick for the footy we "should" be playing since it was a last roll of the dice (i.e Pearce kicking goals). At the same time, our perpetual inability to convert periods of dominance into scoreboard pressure will sink him eventually. I want it to work, but as great as it was to salvage 2 pts tonight there are still a fair few question marks.
As critical as I am of Longmuir, this is a pretty spurious take.
There are clear differences in the game situation, momentum and structuring around/forward of the ball that enable a comeback like that. If we employ that for 120 mins each week we get annihilated.
Yep nailed it.
I agree with the “we should just play that way from the start “ mantra is too simplistic and can’t be done all game.
But at the same time this rigid doggedness to stick to this continued handball possession chain aspect of the system , be it from clearance or just in normal transition is also very much unsustainable
Even Darcy Moore said in his post game interview it’s hard style to implement for the entire game
Our players constantly lack a “feel” for these in game scenarios , until absolutely forced too(eg tonight at the end )
my main gripe with this game style is it kinda breeds a lack of responsibility and lazy decision making in our players(see jacko/Darcy/johnson
Instead of taking it on themselves when the pressures right up we get players simply looking to dish off to teammates , regardless of if theyre in a better position or not or if that “next “ handball will actually lead to a more positive out come for the team
It has a tendency to become almost self fulfilling (handballing for handballing sakes)at times , especially when the opposition is able to effectively nullify our ball movement
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I don’t think anybody who says we should just always play like we did in the last 10 minutes means that we should always have Pearce forward. But the intent to generate a score as fast as possible with ball in hand was markedly different. We should always play with that intent.
We'll finish in the 8 at the end of this round.
That's all with having a pretty average season so far. It'll be an interesting end to the season. It could go very badly but also there's still a chance we kick straight and find more consistency.
That's all with having a pretty average season so far. It'll be an interesting end to the season. It could go very badly but also there's still a chance we kick straight and find more consistency.
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