The lost art of crumbing

[JohnK]

Crumbers? You think Adelaide needs opportunistic feeders who can skirt the packs and turn nothing into something?

Talk about ignoring the bigger picture. Adelaide needs a forward structure and it needed a forward structure before Taylor Walker went down. Adelaide needs pack-busting marking or spilling talls who can keep the ball in the area. Adelaide needs focus points to straighten up its midfield push. Adelaide has plenty of crumbing feeders. Every team has feeders.

Crumbing is not a lost art – crumbing is current AFL orthodoxy.
This post is a diversion.

 

[smoovy]

Crumbers? You think Adelaide needs opportunistic feeders who can skirt the packs and turn nothing into something?

Yes

Talk about ignoring the bigger picture. Adelaide needs a forward structure and it needed a forward structure before Taylor Walker went down. Adelaide needs pack-busting marking or spilling talls who can keep the ball in the area.

Yeah Carlton was well served by those pack busting talls today and last week.

Adelaide needs focus points to straighten up its midfield push.

We had 13 marks inside 50 to Carlton's 8. Otten did ok and Jenkins was targeted one out often but couldn't grab it.

Adelaide has plenty of crumbing feeders. Every team has feeders.

Sorry to do a Thatcher/Negus to you, but who are they and what are their names?

Crumbing is not a lost art – crumbing is current AFL orthodoxy.

It is at the AFC

This post is a diversion.

Ok start a tall forwards thread

 

[Sanders]

Crumbers? You think Adelaide needs opportunistic feeders who can skirt the packs and turn nothing into something?

Talk about ignoring the bigger picture. Adelaide needs a forward structure and it needed a forward structure before Taylor Walker went down. Adelaide needs pack-busting marking or spilling talls who can keep the ball in the area. Adelaide needs focus points to straighten up its midfield push. Adelaide has plenty of crumbing feeders. Every team has feeders.

Crumbing is not a lost art – crumbing is current AFL orthodoxy.
This post is a diversion.

Your post doesn't bear any resemblance to what happened.

Carlton got nothing from their structural talls, and like last week, used their mosquito fleet to run into space and crumb the loose ball

 

[CrowCro]

We really need to target an Eddie Bett's in FA, don't see Callinan going on much if at all past this year. You would think if current contracts frontloaded, skippets 800k, and the combination of various retirements and leavers such as Doughty & potentially Porps/Stiffy this year that we would have a sizeable chunk of salary cap space left available. In reality we should be able to buy an Eddie Betts & a Dale Thomas or a Buddy Franklin.

If anyone read my threads re last weeks game where I suggested Jaensch lpay forward they should now know what Im talking about. I have played for an SANFlL club and excelled in numerous other sports and suffered a bad knee injury in my late teens however I have always had an eye for ability and Jaensh is a crumber and a natural one at that. He has a good kick on the move- lateral movement and runs forward of the play well. Brodie martin has just got to be played also. He will get you an average of 20 possessions each game will add speed and kick goals

 

[Vader]

Your post doesn't bear any resemblance to what happened.

Carlton got nothing from their structural talls, and like last week, used their mosquito fleet to run into space and crumb the loose ball

Carlton's mosquito fleet were always going to cause us problems though. We discussed it in many posts throughout the Board all last week.

They had Garlett, Yarren and (later) Betts running riot, all of whom are quality players with long pedigrees. Against them we had Smith (33 games - but playing his first in 2 months), Brown (8 games), Laird (2 games) and Jaensch - who is close to the AFL's worst small defender (at least he can kick goals when played in his natural position). With all due respect to our kids, they were on a hiding to nothing. None of them deserve to be dropped for their performances tonight - their opponents ran riot, but they're only kids and they're still very much on a steep learning curve.

At the other end of the ground, we had... <crickets chirping>

OK.. seems I'm in violent agreement with you.

 

[mcday]

If anyone read my threads re last weeks game where I suggested Jaensch lpay forward they should now know what Im talking about. I have played for an SANFlL club and excelled in numerous other sports and suffered a bad knee injury in my late teens however I have always had an eye for ability and Jaensh is a crumber and a natural one at that. He has a good kick on the move- lateral movement and runs forward of the play well. Brodie martin has just got to be played also. He will get you an average of 20 possessions each game will add speed and kick goals

Have you ever made a post that isn't about Brodie Martin? Stop trying to make Brodie Martin happen. He's not going to happen. He's 24, incredibly injury prone, can't defend, which is apparently where Sando insists on playing him, and he is well down the pecking order. I do actually think he should be in the team ahead of someone like Mackay, but he isn't nearly as good as you make him out to be. 20 possessions a game? Not going to happen

 

[maxlilly]

That's what was so exciting about Crouch's running goal against the Dogs, that he read the ball off the pack and was off.
Unfortunately we keep loading up on midfielders and when they aren't up to it, we try and convert them into forward / back pocket specialist. Good luck with that.

 

[smoovy]

And the issue remains. We have a massive problem when the ball hit the deck across half forward. It is not just the fact that we are missing a scoring opportunity, its that it is creating one for the opposition.

I like the fact that Jaensch went forward, but was he really forward? I don't think he had any opportunity to settle there.

What annoys me is that how much our forward mix changes throughout the game. If it is trying to confuse the opposition then we are only succeeding in confusing ourselves.

If we are going to persists with tall forwards like Jenkins and McKernan, then each of them should be matched by a small crumbing forward at their feet.

Its coaching 101 FFS!

 

[Slippery Pete]