After watching Q1
Q1 - First 10 minutes
Started well aside from Dunstan missing one relatively easy HB receive from Harmes in the middle.
Brown playing high and presenting on both wings with an involvement early on the member's wing resulting in our first shot at goal.
Dunstan's quick hands to Harmes off HFF was nice but then you had none of the three talls at the time in Jefferson, BB and Macca leading. They were all playing deep from behind and Harmes's bomb didnt help....straight to a Tiger's D playing in front with none of the other three talls even making the contest.
One of them couldve made a lead at the ball carrier but they all sat back. Mind you, Harmes didnt seem to assess too well either. A kick to the fat side might have hit Macca on the chest (if he had the legs?). Sometimes the kicker just needs to just put it out into space with a nicely weighted kick (if he spots a forward...easier said than done of course).
Bell rucking well early. Relieving mark deep in defence at one stage. Also a lovely 45 kick into the middle hitting up a mid who then transitioned into 50 for a goal to Edwards.
Tomlinson, Disco, Deakin all fine down back so far for mine. Disco in particular was rock solid all quarter.
10 minutes onward (approx)...
For mine the momentum began turning as soon a KFW came on for Bell. Not having a go at him either. Super raw and not expecting much at such an early stage but there it is.
A few examples. First hit out straight to Tiger's def sweeper when all our mids were lateral or defensive.
Tap on the wing from a ball to the outside but towards the Tiger end which favoured them and saw a Tiger run onto it and send it deep into their 50.
Caught throwing for Tiger's second direct shot on goal from 45 out which they missed.
Ok this can happen, even with more experienced followers, but the above three examples were all within about 3 minutes of him coming on.
Other things worth mentioning..
Free in the middle against Macca at 12:30 wasnt a free. Clearly play on.
Another very soft free for a (supposed) push against Brown on member's wing.
Mark paid to Tigers 58 (Olden?) at 15:00 very generous for their first goal. Took two bites then dropped it.
Watching the ball up in middle at 16:05 Bell rucking. Both Harmes & Dunstan are too easily pushed away from the drop. Neither got near it and three Tigers are left to their own devices to waltz out of the middle for a quick entry deep into 50. Saved by Adams.
I doubt this would happen all that often with Moose around.
The back half of this quarter (post about 15:00) ...
No one did all that much wrong from what i witnessed from here.
Harmes in everthing with great strength/hands, run from contest to contest & distribution (by hand).
For me it's his disposal by foot that's a worry at times and at times you need to hit targets to ease pressure and / or to find a target a bit more often i50 in order to make the most of all the hard work done up the field. Hitting targets by foot a bit more will also mean less turnovers when you can least afford it. With so many running forward in support, if you arent perfect with your give n goes by hand, you're gonna be punished the other way as the oppo sling shot it out of your F50.
For mine....one too many talls surely? Why would you have all of Jefferson, Valentine, Macca & BB in any forward set up?
Recipe for making life difficult (up forward and for the mids vs the slingshots) if you ask me.
A number of times the ball came in long , hit the deck and voomp.... the Tiger smalls just mopped and exited easily. Casey smalls front n sqaure? Chandler no longer about as well. Not sure what Moniz's role is either. He just isnt about much (up forward) or applying enough pressure.
Valentine also trying to thread a needle at 24:00 as if he's Spargy pants. If he just took a tad more time & glanced inside, he mightve seen Edwards running into 50 about 10 - 20 meters closer & straight in front.
Also the exit from 50 after Macca's snap was far too easy. Again, possibly too many tall forwards?
To me the Tigers looked well beaten in this 1st quarter but the imbalance up forward with too many talls, a few easy misses on goal (BBB, Jefferson), a bit of dodgy delivery inside and no mopping up (Dunstan running into goal not taking a shot and instead kicking it straight to a few Tigers ughh) / pressure inside 50 saw us not converting the opportunities and allowing them to transistion the length of the field on a couple of occasions.
Aside from that the Tigers were clean out in the open, transitioned ok out of 50 but brittle as under any meaningful pressure.
