Re: Port Adelaide 2018
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:05 am
morell wrote:But. Id like the target to not be a midget. We repeatedly have Neade and Gray X2 as the target and bomb it on their head.
Robbie Gray was the only small target kicked to, generally speaking it was Dixon & Westhoff, with Neade & S. Gray crumbing. Robbie Gray's leading patterns aren't exactly ideal at times either, he leads very wide and short behind defenders.
Marshall is definitely a missing cog, and adding him would add massively to the forward structure, but not sure you can compensate by shuffling a defender forward - particularly if they are out of form. Think the basis of keeping the back structure consistent and having continuity is important, and by the same token pick the best 6 forwards available at the time, don't mix/match. Guess it's similar to the ruck argument earlier in the year (except Port didn't have a ready to go ruck in waiting).morell wrote:If Marshall drops out, pick someone that can compete in the air and/or drag a key defender away. Play Hombsch forward. If not put him back and play Howard forward. Play Ryder deeper. Okay Westhoff deeper. Whatever, just give us a chance to kick more than one goal in a half of football against what was in all honesty a massively dilapidated Richmond away from home.
Wrong again. Richmond went ultra defensive, then turned it into a real scrap, and tried to work their way back into the game that way.morell wrote:We had them on toast and could have skull ****** them, but went ultra defensive.
Don't necessarily disagree, but the extra 2 (created because the numbers Richmond dropped behind) allows to cover more lanes and exits ahead of the ball.. you don't want to add and extra 2 in the forward half, it's too congested.. perhaps extra numbers at the stoppage might work.. but overall I have no dramas - when you got Bonner, Pittard and Howard sitting alone ready to rebound it's gonna be hard for opp sides to score I would think.morell wrote:I'd also like to maybe have 1 or 2 behind the ball. Not 4. Maybe back in the mids and ruck at a centre clearance with a reasonable starting forward structure..
Kicked 0.5 to 1.2 in the last quarter - opportunities to ice the game were there.. could well have been 3.2 or similar and everything would be hunky dory.morell wrote:Kicking one goal in a half against.