demon3165

If only they could become like the Krakouer brothers.....

Sooner him than Salem and will improve.

Well, bad luck, I don't live in fantasy land, and I'm free to comment.

What's the name of the post, how about you don't reply then if it bothers you.

4 minutes ago, BDA said:    The win was great but there's still plenty to work on we made school boy errors not knocking the ball for a behind twice. luckily they missed one. We can't be allowing that to happen You are not wrong there. They also need to work on where they are when not in possession of the ball. The Lions, at stages, moved the ball with ease at times. Still, too many long bombs at times, especially on kick-outs. We still have some players who are still too slow to move the ball on quickly and kill momentum. But in saying that, it is still going to take some time for them to get used to the game style, but I like the way it's heading.

If that's their game style, Casey is in for a world of pain for the year. I have said it time and time again: allowing the opposition backline to move the ball around at will and then transfer it up the ground unopposed is just suicide. It virtually happened three goals in a row, you can can say oh there is no depth, and that's fair enough, but it doesn't excuse effort to man up or run hard.

Just watch the game again; it's easy to see that his opponent was never near him, with or without the ball, or standing metres away. The way you play him is to put a running player on him and forget about the ball. It's called negating a player. Langdon did it to an extent and frustrated Dacios. Sometimes, you need to lose something to get something, just like letting sides move the ball out of the backline to the wing unmanned, like last week—just like the Hawks transfer the ball across the ground several times until they get free to run onto it and attack. Sometimes, a little man-on-man coverage works to stop that. The cats did the one thing that will change the game style again: their forwards manned up the backline, which stopped the easy flow of ball movement and forced the dogs to go long on kicks outs, and had forwards remain close in the forward line to allow easy flow. The game will start to move to a man-on-man style around certain parts of the ground.

2 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:    I acknowledge Langdon was great against him KB, but it’s not as easy as putting a running player on him, Hollands started on him in the last who is a great runner Daicos took him to F50 where his forward craft was too good, Walsh tried to go with him but as you say got caught out hunting the pill instead of just manning up Daicos. I think you’re also under selling how good Daicos was in the last at clearances and CBDs, the game no longer allows for you to body up without trying to win the footy There’s also the fine balance on focusing on your opposition and not backing your own game, Carlton should have been further in front at 3 quarter time based on getting the upper hand at stoppages and winning the midfield battle. The amount of times in the last quarter they spoiled each other and got in the way of each other at the honey pot in D50 whilst the Pies stayed down and held structure was telling, maybe that was panic of de ja vuex or poor defensive coaching but that cost them as much as anything else Expand to Edit  Yes it is not easy and agree with you on his craft, but allowing him space to do that is not the way to reduce his influence you need a player with discipline and you can reduce his influence, tackle hard but not the rough tactics but man on man he does get frustrated.

Just watch the game again; it's easy to see that his opponent was never near him, with or without the ball, or standing metres away. The way you play him is to put a running player on him and forget about the ball. It's called negating a player. Langdon did it to an extent and frustrated Dacios. Sometimes, you need to lose something to get something, just like letting sides move the ball out of the backline to the wing unmanned, like last week—just like the Hawks transfer the ball across the ground several times until they get free to run onto it and attack. Sometimes, a little man-on-man coverage works to stop that.

14 minutes ago, Pennant St Dee said:    He’s no good and he’s soft apparently yet has just gone in and dominated CBDs to change the game, Daicos is class without question and PF well we all know what he is Oh, he's a good player alright but it's easy when you are allowed to run free I cannot believe how coaches allow that in the first place.

Good post for around a month before the end of the season.

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:    I’m not one for blind optimism but I have Essendon at the G as a win (assuming we haven’t fallen off the cliff by round 14) Essendon play like men possessed at this Gather Round fixture and I have no idea why? But I reluctantly given them credit for it. Happy to play them again to make up for yesterday’s debacle. It was lost in the coaching box to allow some 100 uncontested possessions, which is a failure on the club to address the lack of pressure on the opposition. It was the same against Freo, and they addressed that to some extent. In that game, they need to stop that, as the top teams will continue to rip us apart in that facet of the game. Their dons made us look second rate for a bottom side at this point in time.

Outplayed and outcoached to allow 126 extra uncontested possessions means you are not picking up an opponent and allow them to move the ball at their speed. One only has to look at the Pies, and I know they have not set the world on fire, but when they don't have the ball in hand, they sprint to the opponent even if it's 10 metres away to apply pressure to the ball carrier. Salem's effort on Kaco before halftime showed that it was weak. There are still a lot of faults to fix, and it looked like players going into old-style plays, but King has seen some good and the ugly today. They will learn to adjust; I'm just not sure they can do it with Salem, McDonald, and Lever in the backline. Howes is still learning, and Turner gives his all. Yes, it was disappointing, and one can hope the coaches learn from it and make the adjustments next week, which will tell us that.

Salem past it if it's not on his terms he is just a plodder that goal by Kaco Salem just let him run on and just jogged behind him, unfortunately we cannot have to many momentum killers in Lever, Salem or McDonald.

Jim and Phil Krakouer best brothers I have seen.