Pressure Acts

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Pressure Acts

Post: # 1661601Post Saint wagga »

Top 4 against Pies:
Jack Steele
Ben long
Luke Dunstan
Jack Lonie

An important stat in Richo's game plan. Might give some weight to counter the fairly harsh and consistent calls for Dunstan and Lonie knockers.


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Re: Pressure Acts

Post: # 1661611Post dragit »

Pressure acts are fine, but it doesn't replace getting and using the footy well… they don't have to be mutually exclusive.

Lonie was okay again, but both he and Dunstan had only 11 touches each at 54%

Rob Eddy was a pressure act specialist too.

I thought Minchington was in front of Lonie late last year playing the last 13 games, so it's a bit of a mystery why he is out of the side to Lonie… same goes for Acres missing the first game after really cementing a spot late last year with an excellent month of footy.


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Re: Pressure Acts

Post: # 1661615Post Saint wagga »

Agree on everything you've mentioned above Dragit!


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Re: Pressure Acts

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We better find something else to argue about then :D


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Re: Pressure Acts

Post: # 1661637Post BigMart »

Does that mean they were second to the ball a lot?


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Re: Pressure Acts

Post: # 1661656Post carn_sainter »

Everyone knows that pressure acts

1) Don't exist in an ideal situation, because their existence means you don't have the ball
2) Are absolutely necessary and inevitable because this is the AFL, and you can't win the ball 100% of the time

Based on their clearance numbers, Collingwood should have smashed us completely yesterday. The ball should have never got to our front half. But because of a good amount of pressure, those clearances weren't effective.

Of course we're trying to be first to the ball, but in the absence of that, good pressure is what kept us in the game yesterday. Overall, defensive work was 9/10 against the pies. Absolutely necessary when your offensive work is 2/10.


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Re: Pressure Acts

Post: # 1661659Post Johnny Member »

carn_sainter wrote:Everyone knows that pressure acts

1) Don't exist in an ideal situation, because their existence means you don't have the ball
2) Are absolutely necessary and inevitable because this is the AFL, and you can't win the ball 100% of the time

Based on their clearance numbers, Collingwood should have smashed us completely yesterday. The ball should have never got to our front half. But because of a good amount of pressure, those clearances weren't effective.

Of course we're trying to be first to the ball, but in the absence of that, good pressure is what kept us in the game yesterday. Overall, defensive work was 9/10 against the pies. Absolutely necessary when your offensive work is 2/10.
"This season, all pressure acts will be recorded - whether physical or implied pressure.

A player will score a point for a physical pressure act when he lays an effective tackle or lays a hand on the opposition ball carrier as he tries to get the ball away.

With implied pressure being tracked for the first time, the ability to corral an opponent will be rewarded.

Players chasing an opponent from behind, forcing them to hurriedly dispose of the ball, also will be rewarded with a "pressure act"."


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