Our skills were woeful at times yesterday, but our decision-making was equally bad. How many times did St Kilda stroll into an open goal on too many Freo players flying and no-one goal side of the contest? I reckon half St Kilda’s goals were scored that way.
And therein lies the rub of training AFL teams, you’ve only got so many hours in the day. It’s not a highly technical individual sport like swimming. It’s a highly technical team sport where you can’t afford to just focus on one skill, or even the many individual skills, but also match simulations, rehab, fitness training and film sessions. I would like our defenders in front of a monitor to see exactly how they let in so many easy goals at least as much as I want them practicing not kicking the ball out of bounds.
As an aside, I do think our goal kicking has improved.