What style of play would you like to see the Dee's play this year and do you think it will be successful? I for one was never a fan of our old style with our so called forward press which looked great when it worked but that wasn't often enough. Our kick in's from full back were never great, nor was our stoppage work. I think this year with a harder attack on the ball, and everybody supposedly been given a role to play we can control play better and create more turn overs and kick fast and long into our forward line which is actually starting to look very tall and has potential to be very dangerous.

I just hope the forward line always has players in it. Too often last year the mids ran the ball and had not one target. Soul destroying for all of us.

What style of play would you like to see the Dee's play this year and do you think it will be successful? I for one was never a fan of our old style with our so called forward press which looked great when it worked but that wasn't often enough. Our kick in's from full back were never great, nor was our stoppage work. I think this year with a harder attack on the ball, and everybody supposedly been given a role to play we can control play better and create more turn overs and kick fast and long into our forward line which is actually starting to look very tall and has potential to be very dangerous.

winning style..........please

Hard and accountable

Direct ,simple ,honest ,accountable ,tough .

Like Richmond in the early 70's would be cool!!

I'd love our side to be regarded as powerful .

Like Richmond in the early 70's would be cool!!

Like MELBOURNE of the late 50s would be even cooler. ;-)

But I think if Neeld can get the players to meet his stated aim, of being the hardest team to play against, then we will be in for a fantastic exciting time.

Edited January 12, 201213 yr by monoccular

Hard and accountable

And pleeeeeeeease don't mention the ND myth: ruthlessness, at least not unless and until our players can actually deliver it !!!

Okay, I'm going to say it.

Bruise free.

(not)

Edited January 12, 201213 yr by McQueen

A cross between Brisbane of a decade ago and more recent Geelong with a dash of Collingwood's discipline for good measure.

I would like to see a similair gameplan but with major reworks. I liked the counter attacking play from HB to HF, i didn't like it when we had no one past HF line for the whole of the Bailey reign. I would like to see some sort of stoppage plan that is effective and works, rather than play like u 10's and just wait to see who taps it where. I would like to have more structure from kickouts, quick, sharp ones, not wait for the ruckman to get to 50 out on the boundary and bomb it to him. I want to see immediate reactions from specific players to recieve short and then overlap, or long quick to space, or short kicks all way to wing. I want a structure in the forward line where there is always a deep lying forward no matter what, not someone starting in the square then drifting up to CHF and waiting for smalls to run back into space and run into open goal, POSSIBLY BAILEY'S LARGEST DOWNFALL! I also want to see a more structured press rather than a witches hat stationery type one that is easy to break. Just like the pies players know where to be when enacting it, this is what I want, I don't want to see a kickout that sees us having the opposition have quick movement out down the wings or centre. Neeld has his structure and he has learnt from the best of the best. When you learn from the best of the best you usually have a fairly decent idea. I KNOW that this year won't be like years past,this year will be different in many, many ways!!

Last year a young lad I teach told me about his football team- as follows.

"The ruckman taps it to me. I kick it to the full forward. He kicks a goal"

Simple really.

....I want a structure in the forward line where there is always a deep lying forward no matter what,.....

I thought that she said that she was going to play for Footscray

Anything but the Bailey 'reverse press' of last year. The forwards continually got sucked up the ground and we ended up pressing ourselves in the back half, forced to inecessently handball our way out of trouble in an attempt to run in numbers while the opposition set up a wall to rebound back in.

I can remember Maloney throwing his hands up in disdain that there was no one forward of centre to kick to. I think the players will benefit greatly from some structure.

Anything but the Bailey 'reverse press' of last year. The forwards continually got sucked up the ground and we ended up pressing ourselves in the back half, forced to incessantly handball our way out of trouble in an attempt to run in numbers while the opposition set up a wall to rebound back in.

I can remember Moloney throwing his hands up in disdain that there was no one forward of centre to kick to. I think the players will benefit greatly from some structure.

Agree totally with your main point, but the forwards were actually playing to their instructions to "get sucked up the ground"

I just hope we don't give in like we did last year, I don't care what style just have a crack no more 10 goal + thrashings.

It doesn't not matter what style we play as long as its winning football. I imagine we will be playing a variation of Collingwood's forward pressing style. Geelong showed last GF that this style of game may now be becoming passe. But nothing is going to work unless attitude and team discipline don't change.

A well executed forward press will always be effective. The opposition have no chance to score when it is correctly applied.

Stating the obvious but as others have intimated we will be playing a more contested, therefore congested style of football. We will probably eke out a few narrow wins and drop a few by a few goals, but I am expecting the chasm between our big wins and big losses to close in. I am really looking forward to seeing the dees win a strong contested game(s) against quality opposition through pressure, tackling, chasing etc. It hasn't happened for a long time.

It will be a fascinating season and I am looking forward to this season much more than I was looking forward to last season. Can't wait to see how the players respond. We will learn a lot about our playing group.

It's no good trying to replicate what's the current Big Thing. We need the Next Big Thing. With modern coaches looking for inspiration from other sports (forward presses etc) I think we need to look further afield. Like the old Aztec gall games where the penalty for losing was drastic, to say the least. Keeps a team on their toes.

Without knowing what Neeld's game-plan is, I can only imagine by how he has stated on numerous occasions that behaviour and actions will dictate the players chances of selections (this is not anything new), but I have the feeling that the internal competitiveness has been substantially ramped up and this will see a whole new level of desperation out on the paddock.

A brutal and skillful game where our boys leave nothing out there week in, week out.

It's no good trying to replicate what's the current Big Thing. We need the Next Big Thing. With modern coaches looking for inspiration from other sports (forward presses etc) I think we need to look further afield. Like the old Aztec gall games where the penalty for losing was drastic, to say the least. Keeps a team on their toes.

Sort of "Blow Torch & Plyers" style....

A well executed forward press will always be effective. The opposition have no chance to score when it is correctly applied.

Long and direct was always going to be effective. Run and carry was always going to be effective. Defensive flooding was going to ruin the game with its effectiveness. But coaches found ways to counter these plans.

Nothing is forever. The only constant is change.

old school