2012 style V 2011

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2012 style V 2011

Post: # 1207908Post busso mick »

The season is only 3 rounds old, but our game style has certainly changed this year. This year we are leading the number of kicks per game at 239 with only 139 handballs per game. Last year for the whole season we averaged 207 kicks per game and 162 handballs. This will change over the course of the season and with better opposition, but it is an indication of the different brand of footy we are producing this year.


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I think competition-wide the game is changing. Speed of ball movement to beat retreating defenders rather tha trying to thread way through. Kick will win every time.


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Post: # 1207923Post AnythingsPossibleSaints »

One thing I'm not so sure I'm loving is that we've returned to the "kick it backwards and sideways across half back" thing that we got out of the habit of doing last year. That has been very evident so far this season and has been bringing plenty of boos from the crowd already. Can open up the fat side of the ground though.

Being at the ground and having a good vantage point, low on level 3, on the wing, you can see all the field really easily beneath you and see who is loose, where, really easily, etc and I've noticed a few times in the past two matches that we've had one or two free, in space, in the middle and have either not even looked there to see them, or have chosen to ignore them and instead kicked it to a contest down the line :shock: , or kicked it sideways, or backwards.

Usually having someone free in 15m of space in the middle is considered an extremely desirable thing, as you can attack quickly and directly down the guts (or at worst go sideways or backwards from there), but either we're under instructions to not go down the guts under any circumstances, or we're simply not looking there to see if anyone's free.

Either way, I'm not sure I'm liking it, because having someone free in the middle is like gold, usually and you don't knock back gold.

Going down the boundary line is fine, if you don't have a better alternative, but if you do, I believe you've go to take it.
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We hold up play on the back line until we can get the ball to a link player who can deliver well to the forwards


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Post: # 1207976Post saintspremiers »

Thinline wrote:I think competition-wide the game is changing. Speed of ball movement to beat retreating defenders rather tha trying to thread way through. Kick will win every time.
That's commonsense.

Must really piss of Lyon though, he'd be hating it!


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Post: # 1207977Post plugger66 »

saintspremiers wrote:
Thinline wrote:I think competition-wide the game is changing. Speed of ball movement to beat retreating defenders rather tha trying to thread way through. Kick will win every time.
That's commonsense.

Must really piss of Lyon though, he'd be hating it!

Why would he hate it?


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Re: 2012 style V 2011

Post: # 1207986Post mr six o'clock »

so far the games have been so much better to watch!
even though poor disposals have cost us , i'm loving it


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Re: 2012 style V 2011

Post: # 1207999Post noob »

played s*** teams compared to last year


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Post: # 1208007Post Teflon »

Our test will come...


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Re: 2012 style V 2011

Post: # 1208052Post whiskers3614 »

This friday's result and score will tell us a lot more about the merits of game plan/list/coach.
fingers crossed!


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Re: 2012 style V 2011

Post: # 1208053Post AnythingsPossibleSaints »

Our biggest tests come in rounds 6-9, especially. Hawthorn, Carlton, Sydney, West Coast (Perth). We'll have a far better idea of where we're at at the end of that run. We'll need to improve our ball use, kicking for goal and so on a lot in the meantime, to still be in the top 6 by then.


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Re: 2012 style V 2011

Post: # 1208093Post gringo »

noob wrote:played s*** teams compared to last year

Yeah we didn't play GC last year or the Dogs or the Power. At least they aren't dour struggles against s*** teams that fail to increase our percentage.


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