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Tactics for Sunday

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1. Keep the game low scoring

2. If in doubt kick long

3. Tackle, tackle, tackle

4. Midfield to work extra hard getting back in defence

5. Always have a tall in the attacking goal square

Otherwise it will be about doing the basics well. I reckon we'll do em.
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How about win your position?

What has impressed me about the coaching team this year is seemingly a tailored strategy applied for each and every team... I look forward to seeing what they come up with this weekend
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gringo wrote:1. Keep the game low scoring

2. If in doubt kick long

3. Tackle, tackle, tackle

4. Midfield to work extra hard getting back in defence

5. Always have a tall in the attacking goal square

Otherwise it will be about doing the basics well. I reckon we'll do em.
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gringo wrote:1. Keep the game low scoring

2. If in doubt kick long

3. Tackle, tackle, tackle

4. Midfield to work extra hard getting back in defence

5. Always have a tall in the attacking goal square

Otherwise it will be about doing the basics well. I reckon we'll do em.
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It's not a complex game. If it develops into a shoot out, we lose. Simple as that.
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gringo wrote:I'm not a complex man. If it develops into more than a shoot out, I'm lost. Simple as that.
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How about we just smash the shit out of them or is that too simple. :D :D
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We would win the shoot out as we have better taller forwards and they have spuds like Jamieson and Waite
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watsongun wrote:We would win the shoot out as we have better taller forwards and they have spuds like Jamieson and Waite
We need to stop their midfield running forwards of the ball and kicking goals and getting quick ball to their ratty, small forwards. This happened in the second half of our most recent bout and we copped a flogging.

I'd have thought the fact we have better talls means we can kick long to a contest whilst slowing the pace of the game down.
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1. Keep the game low scoring
easy, we kick plenty of behinds?

2. If in doubt kick long

hmmm some nice continual turnovers in the middle of the MCG to keep our backs under continual pressure

3. Tackle, tackle, tackle

without first use of the footy, yup that will be the order of the day.

4. Midfield to work extra hard getting back in defence

consistently flooding our back 50 is a tactic we will need to employ.

5. Always have a tall in the attacking goal square

not sure about this one...I guess if we go with the 3 ruckman , they need to hide belly somewhere when he is resting.
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little_ripper wrote:1. Keep the game low scoring
easy, we kick plenty of behinds?

2. If in doubt kick long

hmmm some nice continual turnovers in the middle of the MCG to keep our backs under continual pressure

3. Tackle, tackle, tackle

without first use of the footy, yup that will be the order of the day.

4. Midfield to work extra hard getting back in defence

consistently flooding our back 50 is a tactic we will need to employ.

5. Always have a tall in the attacking goal square

not sure about this one...I guess if we go with the 3 ruckman , they need to hide belly somewhere when he is resting.
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Here are the best players from our first match with Carlon this year:

Fletcher, Hooker, Zaharakis, Watson, Bellchambers, Hardingham, Lonergan

Of the seven named players, three are in and under midfielders and two are defenders. The scores were 79 a piece.

From memory, it was a hard fought scrap, played largely between the two half-back lines. Same again please.
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gringo wrote:Here are the best players from our first match with Carlon this year:

Fletcher, Hooker, Zaharakis, Watson, Bellchambers, Hardingham, Lonergan

Of the seven named players, three are in and under midfielders and two are defenders. The scores were 79 a piece.

From memory, it was a hard fought scrap, played largely between the two half-back lines. Same again please.
Maybe that should say three are defenders (Fletch, Hardingham and Hooker) and two are in and under midfielders (Watson & Lonergan)
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Tackle, tackle, then tackle again.

Hit them hard and often.

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gringo wrote:Here are the best players from our first match with Carlon this year:

Fletcher, Hooker, Zaharakis, Watson, Bellchambers, Hardingham, Lonergan

Of the seven named players, three are in and under midfielders and two are defenders. The scores were 79 a piece.

From memory, it was a hard fought scrap, played largely between the two half-back lines. Same again please.
And we kicked 5.10 in the second half. #-o
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gringo wrote:1. Keep the game low scoring

2. If in doubt kick long

3. Tackle, tackle, tackle

4. Midfield to work extra hard getting back in defence

5. Always have a tall in the attacking goal square

Otherwise it will be about doing the basics well. I reckon we'll do em.
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Double-teaming Judd at stoppages has been very effective recently.
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Fair to say we failed on all accounts today.
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gringo wrote:Fair to say we failed on all accounts today.
Every single one
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Wasn't kicking to the opposition part of our plan? We definately pulled that off.
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