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PODCAST: Match SIM vs St. Kilda

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Think it's to early to be putting mcvee in for rnd1 after 1 preseason "Sim"?

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    'Training the house down' as usual! Great season opener.  Thanks Andy & Bin!

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    15 hours ago, Stu said:

    A question based on these points from last season:

    • Our average points differential to round 10 was six goals (35.8 points), where a lot of teams chose a slower or a more contested style.
    • We kicked two goals fewer per game and gave up three goals more per game from R11 onwards (point differential of 4.3 points), where a lot of teams adopted a faster style.
    • Based on some subjective analysis I did on the style the opposition used to attack - the fast, risky style used by Collingwood, Hawks, Swans etc resulted in an average of 85 points against, compared to 60 for all other games where opposition attacks were less aggressive (over 4 quarters). 

    If you could only choose one of the strategies below for the team to focus on which would it be, out of:

    1. Defending better against fast, corridor-based ball movement, such as with more intense F50 defensive pressure, or
    2. Attack more aggressively through the corridor, to generate better quality forward entries and (more than likely) score more goals.

    And you can't say both ok? 😄 Love your work guys!

    Note: Table showing breakdown of scores for and against

      Points For Points Against
    R1-10 93.8 58.0
    R11-F2 81.9 77.6
    Wins 94.4 58.6
    Losses 71.6 91.1
    Season 86.8 69.4

     

    Short answer - number 2.

    But only because in Kozzie (assuming he is playing more midfield minutes), Mcvee, Hunter, Salem and Bowey we have five reasonably high possession players who can be trusted to hit high risk kicks to the corridor. 

    My tip is this season the Pies will find it a lot harder to hit those corridor targets this season because opposition teams will put a lot more work into the players they use to hit corridor targets - Nick Daicos (who apparently has been training with the mids) being the key player to blunt.

    And so will struggle to score as freely - and will cough up more goals though turnover.

    Net result - more lost games. 

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    12 hours ago, binman said:

    Short answer - number 2.

    But only because in Kozzie (assuming he is playing more midfield minutes), Mcvee, Hunter, Salem and Bowey we have five reasonably high possession players who can be trusted to hit high risk kicks to the corridor. 

    My tip is this season the Pies will find it a lot harder to hit those corridor targets this season because opposition teams will put a lot more work into the players they use to hit corridor targets - Nick Daicos (who apparently has been training with the mids) being the key player to blunt.

    And so will struggle to score as freely - and will cough up more goals though turnover.

    Net result - more lost games. 

    Good answer - it's probably the answer to both problems. We didn't have a problem generating F50 entries, but our conversion of them was very low. It's not surprising that when we lost, the opposition scored a lot from turnovers because we gave them a lot of opportunities to rebound from their D50 with poor decision making and skill execution. 

    By having 4-5 accurate kicks in the team, for every additional quality entry into our F50 we're starving the opposition of a quick rebound. Even just the decision to be slower, more deliberate and not just a long bomb for McCarten, Howe, or Stewart to mark, reduces the volume of quick counter attacks we have to defend.

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    On 2/27/2023 at 7:06 PM, Demonland said:

    Some of these we might leave until the Season Preview as tonight is really just an informal Podcast SIM.

    I will definitely ask Binman about Laurie and Howes. I didn't watch the reserves portion of the Match Simulation but I have seen them train during the preseason.

    Thank you for mentioning my question regarding Laurie and Howes in the podcast.

     

    It was greatly appreciated. 😎👍🏻

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