daysofourlives wrote:am Bays wrote:daysofourlives wrote:And they paid holding the man frees when blokes didnt take possession of the ball ala Kevin Bartlett tapping it in front of himself. I wish they would start paying these again. It helps keep the ball moving rather than blokes taking possession and getting tackled immediately and having stacks on. Get rid of all prior opportiunity, simplify it, if you dont kick or handball its holding the ball, tackles forces it out, its holding t, make the job easier for the umpires, there will be a spike in frees initially but give it two weeks the players will adapt.
Great idea if you want to encourage blokes to be second to the footy so they can tackle and win a free kick, then miss a target, have their team mates get tackled, turnover, rinse repeat.
The idea is not to take possession off the ball if youre under immense pressure, keep the ball moving, all too often players take possession knowing they will be tackled and the umpire will ball it up.
Your comment makes no sense, how many tackles were there back in the 70's and 80's? i recall something about 25 a game per team tops. Of course players would be required to stay ahead of the play if this was the case.
There were less tackles "back in the day because in the 70s and 80s the tactical emphasis was on attack "how you can score" hence it wasn't uncommon to get 50 goal games throughout the season. If you read
Tactics in Modern Football by Dave Wheadon published in 1991 the evolution of tactics is discussed. Late 80s the game started to change with Malthouse as pressure and defensive action came to the fore as we saw at West Coast early 90s 15 goals wins you a game.
The 1980s NAFC coaching manuals only covered offensive stats (interesting that chapter in the level 2 book was written by the Glenelg Fitness coach at the time Jaquesy) and our stats template was used as the benchmark across the country - another example of how the VFL wasn't that far ahead of the SANFL at the time (different now)
Arguably one of the biggest tactical drivers that led to a greater emphasis on tackles and linked to KPIs was Carlton in 1995. They worked out in 1994 that if they had 75 pressure acts a game (chases, spoils, blocks, shepherds, tackles etc) they would win. That was the teams drive in 1995 when it won the flag and it's a when the stat of tackles came to the fore or regarded as key. Defensive stats became more important or as important as offensive stats
Now let alone 75 pressure acts you see 75 tackles!
Parkin presented on this at a conference in early 1996 an interested party was Pagan (the tension in Parkin was evident as the educator in him wanted to impart the knowledge at the conference, the football coach in him wanted to keep his moth shut)
Defensive acts pressure became the byword late 90s and this was enhanced by Roos at Sydney with the implementation of the Zone/web team defence
So in a nutshell there were far less tackles back in the day as it wasnt considered an important aspect of the game compared to offensive play. Now there are far more tackles due to the defensive nature of the game. increased fitness standards means player have the capacity to tackle more and run both ways. previously with less fit players the game was more open.
Finally the object of our game is not to tap the ball but to win possession of it. So to require players to not take possession but rather tap it where there is less certainty in getting the ball to a team mate.
if you want more open footy pay the holds and scrags and let the payer making the ball his object be protected not the sheepdog sweating off. taht will keep the ball in motion
here endeth the lesson
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!